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CHRYSOBOTHRIS TRANQUEBARICA (Gmelin) 



Buprcstis iniprcssa Fabricius, Mant. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 182, no. 61. 



( Preoccupied. ) 

 Buprestis tranquetarica Gmelin, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13 ed., vol. 1, pt. 4, 



1788, p. 1932, no. 74. 

 Buprestis excavata Oliviek, Enc. Method., vol. 5, 1790, Buprestis, p. 232, 



no. 95.— Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1792, p. 206, no. 84; Syst. 



Eleuth., voL 2, 1801, p. 205, no. 105. 

 ChrysobotJiris fratern<i Manneeheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 



no. 8, 1837, pp. 75-76. 

 ChrysobotJiris ruyosa Mannekheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 



no. 8, 1837, pp. 74-75. 

 Chrysohothris denticulata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 



p. 46, pi. 8, fig. 62. 

 ChrysobotJiris dcnticoJIis Goey, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1840, p. 178, pi. 



30, fig. 173. 

 CJirysobotJiris impressa Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 



1867, p. 586 (separates p. 162). — Gundlach, Contribucion k la Entom. 



Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 169-170 ; An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., ser. 2, 



vol. 22, 1894, p. 623.— Stahl, Fauna de Puerto Rico, 1882, p. 171. 

 CJirysobotJiris tranquebarica Fleutiaux and Sall^;, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 



ser. 6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 404 (separates p. 54). — Fisher, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



Wash., vol. 20, 1918, pp. 173-177. — Snyder, Journ. Agri. Research, vol. 



16, 1919, pp. 155-163, pis. 18-21, text figs. 1-2. 



Male. — Form short, rather broad, and strongly depressed, sub- 

 opaque; head cupreous or aeneous, with the epistoma auro-viridis ; 

 pronotum and elytra dark aeneous; each elytron with four foveae, a 

 deep one at basal lobe, a more shallow one near humerus, a large 

 bilobed one on disk near middle, interrupting the second costa, and 

 an obcordate one at apical third, situated between the second and 

 fourth costae, usually the foveae are concolorous, but sometimes the 

 discal ones are of a lighter shade, and rarely of a reddish-cupreous 

 color ; beneath dark aeneous and more shining than above. 



Head flat, with the front triangular and the sides very strongly 

 obliquely narrowed to the vertex; occiput very narrow, and with a 

 distinct longitudinal carina, which is sometimes feebly forked ante- 

 riorly and forming a chevron; front flat, deeply transversely im- 

 pressed behind the epistoma, with a short sinuate carina behind 

 each antennal cavity, and a more elevated one at middle of front, 

 the carinae not extending entirely to the margins, there is also a 

 narrow groove extending arcuately around the antennal cavities and 

 margined posteriorly by a short elevated carina ; surface densely and 

 coarsely punctate, the punctures confluent, and the reliefs forming 

 a network of irregular polygonal areas, rather densely clothed with 

 very fine, long inconspicuous hairs ; eyes very large, strongly convex, 

 more acutely rounded on top than at bottom, and nearly confluent 

 on the occiput; epistoma narrow, elevated, broadly triangularly 

 emarginate at middle, with the lobes broadly rounded; antennae 



