March, 1910.] Fall : Chrysobothris Californica, etc. 49 



The fifth example in line is also from Oregon, is a female, and 

 looks a good deal like zndcanica, which it probably is ; it has the last 

 ventral with a narrow and small but rather deep emargination. 



The sixth specimen is a female with lobed prosternum, identity- 

 doubtful, certainly not californica, and the seventh is a male caurina, 

 or a species so close to caurina that we are unable at present to 

 separate them. 



Since returning to California there has turned up in a small 

 series of specimens sent me by Dr. Van Dyke two examples of 

 genuine californica, both females, and a third specimen — also a 

 female — has been sent by Dr. Blaisdell. Dr. Van Dyke's specimens 

 are from Independence Lake, Nevada Co., California, at an altitude 

 of 7,000 ft. ; and Dr. Blaisdell's comes from Shasta Co. Dr LeConte's 

 type was obtained from jMurray, but neither it nor his other speci- 

 mens bear any more definite locality label than " California." 



C. verdigripennis Frost. 



The discovery in Xew England at this late day of a new 

 Chrysobothris, and one of the very finest of the group to which it 

 belongs, is as interesting as it is surprising. Its detection is due 

 to Mr. Frederick Blanchard, who having seen males taken by Mr. 

 Frost, recognized a female in his own collection, and later found 

 two or three specimens in the Cambridge collections mixed with 

 other species. Mr. Frost's description (on a preceding page of this 

 issue) is well drawn up and leaves very little to be said by way of 

 characterization. The partly testaceous antennae will at once dis- 

 tinguish it from everything except dentipcs, with which it would be 

 associated by Horn's table. In the latter species the apical dilata- 

 tion of the male front tibia is quite different, the elytral punctuation 

 denser and the prosternum is very sparsely punctate in both sexes; 

 verdigripennis however seems to me less closely allied to dentipes 

 than to trinervia and the neighboring species, and I have therefore 

 included it in the preceding table. 



C. carinipennis Lee. 



The dilatation of the anterior male tibia in this species is longer 

 and narrower than in any other allied form except californica, and 

 comprises fully one-fourth the total length of the tibia. There is no 

 appreciable sinuation at the base of the dilatation in the type, and 



