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males, prove to be a new species which I propose to call Endelus 
calligraphus from the great resemblance of the mines to hand- 
writing. 
Leaf specimens thus far examined show the eggs as being 
laid almost invariably near the tips, the larvse working toward 
the petiole and then crossing and recrossing their older gal- 
leries, often returning as close to the leaf tip as possible, but 
always going back down the midrib for pupation in a very 
slightly enlarged chamber at the end of the gallery near the 
leaf base. This entire gallery may be made in that portion 
of the blade lying on one side of the midrib (Plate I, fig. 5). 
The larvse succeed, with great skill, in keeping the gallery 
walls intact, as will be noticed, even when the turns lie very 
close together. But when they cross an old gallery it is usually 
at right angles and in a straight course. All the galleries, old 
and new, lie in the same plane, so there is no doubt that on 
crossing an old one they actually tap it and do not go above or 
below it as might be supposed. This is borne out by dissection 
of the leaf. 
The life history of this species has not yet been worked out. 
It will be noted in the figures in Plate II that the dark spots 
shown along the central line of the gallery indicate the distri- 
bution of the pellets of excreta, or frass. Their arrangement 
is much more regular than is possible in a blotch mine, the 
growth of which is far less regular. 
The total length of the gallery or mine shown in Plate I, fig. 
5, is 89 centimeters, while the mine shown in Plate I, fig. 4, 
is 111 centimeters in length, the average being exactly 1 meter. 
Endelus and allied genera of Buprestidse, for example, Apha- 
nisticus and Trachys, will probably be found to contain many 
species the larvse of which are miners in the leaves of plants 
of the Asplenium nidus group and related genera of ferns. 
A NEW BUPRESTID 
Thus far but the two species of Endelus mentioned here have 
been recorded from the Philippines, but there are at least two 
other undescribed species in the college collection. 
Endelus calligraphus sp. nov. 
Entirely brown with uniform greenish bronze sheen over 
entire dorsum; head more brilliantly greenish bronze; ventrum 
a black bronze; legs similarly colored; eyes darker brown. 
Head and pronotum microscopically reticulate and with 
