NORTH AMERICAN BUPRESTID BEETLES 103 



Redescribed from the female type, No. 3294, in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Type locality. — Of pulchellus, Colorado. Of pinalicus, Parker's 

 well, east side of Organ Mountains, N. Mex. Type in collection of 

 H. F. Wickham. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Material examined : 

 Arizona: San Bernardino Ranch, Cochise County, 3,750 feet (E. G. Smyth 



and F. H. Snow). Santa Rita Mountains, July, 5,000-8,000 feet (F. H. 



Snow, Hubbard, and Schwarz). Oracle, July 2 (Hubbard and Schwarz). 



Coyote Mountains, August 4-7, 3,500 feet (Chamberlin Coll). Reef, 



Cochise County, Baboquivari Mountains, Schaeffer Canon, October 18-19, 



1924, 5.160-5,500 feet (Rehn and Hebard). 

 Colorado: Denver, July 20-22 (Stoner). Colorado Springs, August 10, 1889 



(H Soltau). 

 Kansas: Belvidere, Kiowa County, July (W. Knaus). Clark County, June 



(F. H. Snow). Linn and Bourbon Counties (R. H. Beainer). 

 Mexico: Tepehuanes ; Chihuahua (H. F. Wickham). 

 New Mexico: Parker's Well, October (T. D. A. Cockerell). Koehler, July 23 



(D. J. Caffrey). Carlsbad, August 25, and Sandia Mountains, July 29 



(Rehn and Hebard). 

 Texas: Kent, Culberson County, September 17-18, 3,800^,200 feet (Rehn and 



Hebard). 



Recorded also from : 



Arizona: Pinal Mountains, June ( — ). Huachuca Mountains, July 5; Nogales, 



October 3. 

 Colorado : Fort Collins, July 16. 

 Mexico : Sonora. 

 New Mexico : Rowe. 

 Texas : Brownsville, August 14. 



Variations. — This species is quite variable in coloration, and the 

 head in the male varies from golden green with a feeble cupreous 

 tinge to entirely reddish cupreous, the sides of the elytra bronzy 

 cupreous to reddish cupreous, and the sutural area from green to 

 purplish black. In some examples the longitudinal carina on the 

 pygidium is strongly elevated and distinctly projecting, whereas in 

 others the apex of the pygidium is simply obtusely angulated. 

 Length, 6.5 to 10 millimeters. . 



Host. — Found breeding in the roots of Fleabane (Erigeron 

 species) in Arizona by Hubbard and Schwarz. 



Prof. H. F. Wickham, who has kindly sent me his type of pinalicu* 

 for study, suggested that it was probably synonymous with pulchellus 

 Bland. I have carefully studied his type and compared it with the 

 type of pulchellus and can not find any specific differences. In the 

 type of piualicus the bluish black sutural area is very narrow, and 

 the efflorescence is well preserved, which gives it a distinct whitish 

 appearance. 



