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insulana the pronotum is arcuately rounded and widest near the 

 middle, the elytral markings are smaller, and the basal and median 

 ones not connected along the suture. 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS SEXFASCIATA Schaeffer 



Chrysobothris sexfasciata Schaeffek, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, 

 pp. 212-213. 



3Iale. — Form small, short, rather robust and feebly convex, and 

 subopaque; head cupreous, with a strong aeneous tinge, the occiput 

 and margins along eyes green; pronotum and elytra dark pur- 

 pureous, with a feeble greenish tinge, each elytron ornated with 

 golden-green markings as follows: A transverse basal fascia ex- 

 tending along the lateral margin and connected to a feebly oblique 

 ante-median fascia, which does not reach the suture, a rather broad 

 irregular transverse fascia at apical third, which does not extend 

 to the suture nor lateral margin, and a small spot covering the apical 

 region. Beneath piceous, with the sides of the abdominal segments 

 bright green, and the legs purpureous, with a strong aenous tinge 

 on the exterior surface of the anterior femora; antennae cupreous; 

 tarsi cyaneous. 



Head feeblj^ convex, with the front triangular and the sides 

 rather strongly arcuately rounded; occiput narrow, and feebly lon- 

 gitudinally carinate; vertex with an arcuate elevation forming an 

 arc with the sides of the front; surface coarsely and densely punc- 

 tate, the punctures shallow, nearly confluent, with the sides not well 

 defined, and the intervals densely and rather coarsely granulose, 

 from each puncture arises a rather moderately long, semierect, 

 cinereous hair ; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at 

 bottom than on toj), and separated on the occiput by about one-half 

 the distance between the antennal cavities; epistoma deeply and 

 broadly triangularly emarginate in front, with the lobe on each 

 side strongly angulated at middle; antennae short, the third joint 

 about as long as the following two joints united. Pronotum 

 strongly transverse, tAvo times as wide as long, widest at middle, 

 and slightly narrower in front than behind ; sides arcuately rounded ; 

 anterior margin arcuately emarginate, and without a median lobe; 

 base rather strongly bisinuate, the median lobe broadly rounded, and 

 truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, and without 

 impressions, rather densely, but not coarsely punctate, the punctures 

 deep, and well separated on disk, becoming coarser and confluent at 

 sides, and separated by obsolete rugae near the posterior angles; 

 intervals densely and coarsely granulose. Scutellum small, triangu- 

 lar, the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely granulose. 

 Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly 

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