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ead, antennae (except the club), entire ventral surface of 
y and the legs are red, the pubescence of the parts is red ; 
libles, antennal club, tips of tarsal appendages and 
claws are black. Vestifa is a very broad species, 
h equaling half the length. 
from the more tropical portions of its habitat 
’ to be a variable species in coloration, the tendency 
Seeree eee portions tp become obscurely reddish end 
PF sence more dense. In a Guatemalan specimen in 
ly collection the elytra are violaceous, the prothorax dull 
ious with a reddish tinge, the tarsi entirely red, and the 
ni di bles black at tip only; the five apical joints of the an- 
| ee fees ase thorax and elytra fulvous and 
y black spots of the elytra very large and round. 
| elegans Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. iii, p. 87 (1870) ; Gorham, Biol. 
/ ss Cent. Amer. ili, part 2, p. 346 ; tab. 12, fig. 23 (1885) ; Rivers 
(Lamberti) Loe vi, p. 396 (1894). 
T species bears a slight resemblance to C. dichroa, but 
: ee ms many yoapects. Elegans is a much broader, 
m i species. It is a deep sanguincous red (the color 
STGid sentestel toe pale red. as described by Dr. Horn), 
ae ra blue with metallic lustre wanting ; the antennae 
_ (the basal joint excepted) and the tarsi black. The prothorax 
in this species is much more coarsely and densely punctured 
while the elytra are less coarsely punctured than in dithroa. 
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: I js LeConte ( Zsoflium) Rep. Exp. and Surv. 1857, xii, p. 48. 
; is species may be easily recognized by its elongate form, 
5 ely punctured thorax and coarsely punctured elytra. The 
ing in this species is the same as in C. elegans, with the 
_ following exceptions: the blue of the elytra has a sub-metallic 
, the prothorax is more shining, the legs and antennae 
Tictetty back, while the scutellum is red, the pubescence 
Bed ced gvthonx to blackish. 
= Dichroa is by far the rarest species and according to Mr. 
Hopping larvae of the two species seem to be indistin- 
| Both species breed in the same log—that of Quercus 
_ douglasii or Sierra foot-hill oak (at Kaweah, Cal.), and as this 
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