2 BULLETIN 922, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



In 1882 Lintner took a specimen in Vermont. In 1884 punctatus reached Canada 

 in numbers, flying across the lake from Buffalo to Ridgeway, 1889 it occurred in 

 several places in Ohio * * * and Schwarz identified a beetle taken from the stomach 

 of a crow killed in Michigan in 1892 as this species. Southward by 1890 it had spread 

 over New Jersey and reached Philadelphia, where it was very common. The year 

 1894 gave records from Maryland, West Virginia (Hopkins), and Indiana * * * 

 Folsom records its first appearance at Urbana as 1903 * * * R. L. Webster reported 

 it from Iowa in 1910 , On the west coast Hanhem reported it from Vancouver in 1902 



(Fletcher) and in 1906 E. S. 

 Wilmot states that it was up 

 the Fraser River as far as 

 Harrisons, about 20 miles 

 from the south line of Brit- 

 ish Columbia. (Titus 7, p. 

 405-406). ! 



It is now found in 

 the additional States 

 of Delaware, Idaho, 

 Kansas, Kentucky, 

 Maine, Massachusetts, 

 Mississippi, Missouri, 

 Nebraska, New Hamp- 

 shire, North Carolina, 

 Oregon, Rhode Island, 

 Tennessee, Texas, 

 Utah, Virginia, Wash- 

 ington, and Wisconsin. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The descriptions are 

 taken almost entirely 

 from Titus (7, <p. 402- 

 404), with additions 

 by the authors in- 

 closed ^in brackets. 



Adult [fig. 2]: Length 5 

 to 10 mm. Width 3 to 5.7 



Stout, black or brownish black. Clothed with blackish brown pale brown, yellow- 

 brown or gray scales which are short broad and emarginate at the tips, and with short 

 erect bristles, edge of elytra yellow brown or at least paler than remainder of scales. 



Head clothed with short metallic yellowish scales; front not as wide as breadth of 

 eye, densely clothed with dark yellow hairs .or scales which extend over two-thirds 

 of the beak; eyes elongate oval, narrowed beneath, rather prominent; beak scarcely 

 two-thirds the length of the prothorax, and one-half thicker at tip than width of front, 

 beneath on the sides and near the tip polished and densely punctate; an elongate 

 impression on dorsal surface above the antennal groove; antennal groove black, 



1 Reference is made by number (italic) to " Literature Cited," p. 18. 



