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End of the abdomen terminates in a singular ruffielike expansion, armed 

 on the edges with stout spines. Hind tarsi reaching to the middle of the 

 fifth abdominal segment. The body considerably curved. Maxillary palpi 

 extended well beyond the end of the mandibles. Prothorax with a broad- 

 based spine on the side. The projecting parts of the abdominal segments 

 with fine spines, and segments 3 to 5 with a pair of transverse, thin, dark 

 brown chitinous patches. Length 30 mm. 



Anthophilax attenuatus Hald. 



An olive gray, mottled beetle with black head and thorax, and about ^ inch long, 

 occurs in early spring on partly decayed beech stumps. 



This Lepturid has the characteristic form of this subfamily, and has 

 been taken in early May on dead or decayed beech at Newport N. Y. by 

 Mr D. B. Young. The beetles were observed by him, ovipositing in the 

 galleries made by P t i 1 i n u s ruficornis, and the process has been 

 described by him as follows : 



The beetle crawled along with an odd jerky motion and carefully 

 examined every hole and crevice which it crossed. The crevices were aban- 

 doned almost immediately ; the galleries were examined 

 with more care and evidently those selected were a year 

 old ; the beetles invariably oviposited with the head 

 turned nearly or wholly down. One of the galleries 

 removed after the beetle had oviposited and flown 

 contained 16 eggs. Nothing had been placed in the 

 gallery to prevent parasites from entering. The eggs 

 were placed y 2 inch from the outside in four lots of 

 four each, with their ends slightly tapering, just filling 

 the diameter of the gallery. The eggs were cylindrical, 

 rounded at both ends, polished, and waxy white ; they 

 were gummed together with a yellowish secretion, and 

 were 1^ to nearly 2 mm in length. 



Beetle. Length S/% inch ; antennae, legs and wing 



covers olive, mottled with grayish white ; head and 



rig- iw Anthophilax at- o J 



ten uat us, enlarged (original) thorax black and clothed with a short, sparse golden 

 pubescence. This form may be recognized, according to Mr Wickham, 

 by its elytra being testaceous and irregularly marked with piceous spots. 

 The surface is coarsely and sparsely punctate and with small spaces which 

 are distinctly pubescent. Median lirte of thorax distinctly impressed. 



