(JO FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
6. Cossus reticulatti8 Lintner. 
This moth was described by Mr. J. A. Lintner, from a single female 
in the collection of Mr. tfeumogen, collected in Texas, on the Rio Grande. 
Mrs. Slosson has observed it riddling live oaks in Florida. 
Allied to ( . robinia in shape of wings and markings, having the stronger scales and 
reticulated ornamentation of that species, in which it differs from the minute and 
■parse scales and transverse lines of C. querei p erdm and C. oenteren»i$. 
Primaries reticulated with black on a pale ash ground, the wings lighter than in C. 
robiititt, from the absence of the conspicuous intranervular black spots and streaks 
which characterise that species, and are well represented in fig. 205, p. 413, of Harris' 
liueott Injurious to Wyttation. In this species, only between the internal, submedian 
and 1st median venule (veins la, 16, and 2), at the outer third of the wings, do the 
reticulations coalesce so as almost to form spots. In the terminal and subterminal por- 
tions of the wing, the small ash spots (sometimes ocellated with a black dot or line) 
for the greater part rest upon the veins; between 2 and 5, there are other spots in- 
termediate to these venular ones; elsewhere, with a few exceptions, the spots are 
venular, forming two intranervular rows. The costal region is pale ash, traversed by 
black lines rather than reticulated. The median portion of the wing is imperfectly 
reticulated. The terminal margin and the unicolorous fringe are conspicuously 
marked with a black spot on each vein. 
Secondaries thinly clothed with fuscous hairs, permitting the reticulations of the 
lower surface to be seen in transparency, except between the margin and costal nerve, 
where it is seated in pale ash, as the primaries. Terminal margin and the pale fringe, 
black spotted as the primaries. — (Lintner, Ent. Contributions, iv, 130, 1878.) 
7. The toothed- legged buprestis. 
Chrysobothris dentipes Germar. 
Order Coleoptera: Family Buprestid,e. 
Fig. 15. — Chrysobothris dentipes: a, head, front view; 6, last male ventral segment: c, last female 
ventral segment; d, first leg of male. After Horn. B. The same, after Smith. 
Eating a slender, winding, broad, shallow burrow between the bark and sap-wood 
of newly felled oak trees; a white, footless grub, with the fore part of the body enor- 
mously large, circular, and flattened, inclosing the small head in front. 
This singularly shaped borer is often found under the bark of newly 
felled oaks, or those which have been prostrate for a longer time. We 
have found it in its mine under the bark of the red oak at Salem, Mass., 
early in May, in company with more numerous individuals of Magdalis 
olyra. 
