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species, but Olivier (1790) gives a very good description and figure 

 of the species described by Fabricius. Fabricius (1801) under 

 quddrimaculata cites Olivier's redescription of this species, so there 

 is scarcely any doubt as to Olivier's identification of the species. 

 Specimens which agree with the description and figure given by 

 Olivier have been examined from the following localities. Colh 

 British Mus. : One female, labeled West Indies, without any definite 

 locality. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : Two males, labeled Jamaica. 

 (One of these specimens donated to the U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll.) 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS LEPIDA Castelnau and Gory 



Chrysohothris lepida Castelnau ami Gouy, Moii. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, p. 10. 

 pi. 3, fig. 23. — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramou de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. 

 Polit. et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, Auim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), 

 p. 64; (Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 28. — Chevkolat, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 585 (separates p. 161).^Gundlach, 

 Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 168, No. 505, 



Male. — Form broadly elongate, moderately convex and subopaque ; 

 head cupreous, with the reliefs purplish-green; pronotum, scutellum, 

 and elytra purpureous, with a distinct greenish tinge; each elytron 

 ornated with bright green marks as follows : A transverse fascia at 

 base, a slightly oblique one just in front of middle, and a more trans- 

 verse one at apical third, the fasciae wider and more rounded in- 

 ternally, not reaching to the suture, and the posterior one sometimes 

 divided into two round spots; beneath greenish-black, with a strong 

 purpureous tinge, and more shining than above ; antennae cupreous ; 

 tarsi cyaneous. 



Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides feebly 

 arcuately rounded; occiput narrow and longitudinally carinater 

 front not impressed; vertex with an obsolete arcuate transverse ele- 

 vation, forming an arc with the sides of the front; surface densely 

 and coarsely punctate, the punctures somewhat confluent on the 

 front and from the center of each puncture arises an inconspicuous 

 cinereous hair; intervals obsoletely granulose; eyes large, strongly 

 convex, more acutely rounded at bottom than on top, and separated 

 on the occiput by about the same distance that separates the antennal 

 cavities; epistoma deeply, narrowly, and acutely emarginate, the 

 lobe on each side forming an arc from the bottom of the emargi na- 

 tion; antennae short, third joint about as long as the following 

 three joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and four- 

 fifths times as wide as long, widest near apex, slightly narrower at 

 base than in front; sides strongly, abruptly, and acutely expanded 

 near apical angles, then feebly sinuate and slightly narrowed to the 

 posterior angles, which are nearly rectangular and closely applied to 

 the elytra; anterior margin broadly arcuately emarginate with a 



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