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first tAvo species the foveae are green, and the posterior ones obliquely 

 placed. 



The locality given by Castelnau and Gory in their original de- 

 scription of this species is Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the above de- 

 scription was made from specimens from the type locality. Speci- 

 mens have been examined from the following localities. Coll. U. S. 

 Nat, Mus. : Port-au-Prince, Haiti ; Higueral, Santo Domingo, Feb- 

 ruary, 1916 (E. G. Smyth); Santa Rita, Porto Rico, July, 191?> 

 (E. G, Smyth). Coll. H. F. Wickham : Port-au-Prince, Haiti (R. J. 

 Crew). Coll. British Mus.: St. Domingo. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. : Ensenada, Porto Rico, May, 1915, Breeds in Agati grandi-fiora 

 (E. G. Smyth). Coll. Porto Rico Exp, Sta. : Higueral, Santo Do- 

 mingo, April 13, 1913 (W. V. Tower). Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. : 

 St. Marc, Haiti (W. M. Mann). 



Kerremans-*^ places octosignata described by Waterhouse-^ as a 

 synonym of this species, but I have been unable to find that Water- 

 house has used that name for a species of Chrysobothris. 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS CHLOROSTICTA Thomson 



Chrysobothris chlorosticta (Laferte Mss.) Thomson, Typi. Bupresti- 

 darum, 1878, p. 78. 



' Male. — Form rather elongate, moderately convex, and subopaque ; 

 above aeneous, with a strong purpureous tinge ; each elytron ornated 

 with bluish-green markings as follows : A large round spot at basal 

 lobe, an oblong spot on humerus, and extended to the base, a large 

 round ante-median spot, and two small round spots at apical third. 

 of which the exterior one is placed obliquely in advance of the ante- 

 rior one; dorsal segments of abdomen bright green at the sides; be- 

 neath aeneous, with purpureous and cupreous reflections; tarsi 

 cyaneous. 



Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides 

 obliquely narroAved to the vertex ; occiput rather wide and longitudi- 

 nally carinate ; front not impressed ; vertex with a transverse eleva- 

 tion; surface densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures on the 

 front shallow, irregular, and nearly confluent, the sides forming a net- 

 work of polygonal areas, the bottom of which are granulose, sparsely 

 clothed with long, recumbent cinereous hairs ; ej^es large, strongly con- 

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

 the occiput by about the same distance as between the antennal 

 cavities; ej^istoma with a narrow acutely rounded emargination at 

 middle, the lobe on each side of the emargination obliquely rounded ; 

 antennae rather long, third joint about as long as the following four 



=0 Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, p. 191. 

 -' Biol. Centr.-Amer., Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1887, p. 38. 



