NORTH AMERICAN BUPRESTID BEETLES 269 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the front of head more 

 reddish cupreous, broader, equal in width at top and bottom, and the 

 lateral margins parallel; outer joints of antennae slightly wider than 

 long; first and second abdominal segments without a median depres- 

 sion; prosternum without long, erect hairs at middle, and the tibiae 

 unarmed at apex. 



Redescribed from the male cotype No. 1 in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, and the female cotype No. H-4737 in the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Type locality. — Texas. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Material examined : 



Arizona: Catalina Springs, April 18 (Hubbard and Schwarz). Santa Rita 



Mountains, 5,000-8,000 feet, July (F. H. Snow). Palmerlee, July 22 < H. A. 



Wenzel ) . 

 New Mexico : Highrolls, May 29, 1902 ; Alamogordo, April 29, 1902 i — ) . La 



Cueva, Organ Mountains (C. H. T. Townsend). 

 Texas : Loma, July 7, 1908 ( ). San Diego, May 31 (Hubbard and Schwarz). 



Cypress Mills, March 15 ( ). Chisos Mountains, Brewster County, 



June 10-12, 1908 (Mitchell and Cushman). Devil's River, May 2-4. 1907 



(Pratt, Bishopp, and Schwarz). Corpus Christi, March-April, 1907 (C. S. 



Spooner, R. A. Cushman). San Antonio, May 10, 1907 (E. A. Schwarz). 



Brownsville (J. C. Bridwell). Austin, April 9. 1909 (R. A. Cushman). 



Piano. July, 1907 (E. S. Tucker). Beeville. May (E. A. Schwarz. W. D. 



Pierce). 



Also recorded from: 

 Lower California: Coral de Piedra and Sierra El Taste (Horn). 

 Mexico : Northern Sonora ( Morrison ) . 



Indiana: Posey and Perry Counties (Blatchley). This is probably a wrong 

 identification and should be pseudofallax Frost. 



Variations. — The color is rather constant in this species. The 

 median depression on the pronotum is, at best, only feebly indicated, 

 but in some specimens it is entirely wanting, and in others there are 

 two vague depressions at the middle. The pubescence on the upper 

 surface is more distinct in some specimens than in others, sometimes 

 scarcely forming spots, and varies in color from white to yellowish 

 white. The basal and median pubescent spots on the elytra are 

 usually connected, forming a more or less distinct vitta on basal half. 

 Length 4 to 6 millimeters. 



Host. — Unknown. Blatchley (1910) records collecting the adults 

 on peach blossoms in Indiana, but this record is probably from er- 

 roneously identified specimens, and probably should refer to pseudo- 

 fallax Frost. 



This species is very closely allied to iinpexus Horn, and some ex- 

 amples will be difficult to separate, but addendus is usually smaller, 

 .the elytra more uniformly pubescent posteriorly, the pubescent spots 



