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(5) Cheysobotheis deleta LeConte 

 (Fig. 5; fig. Ill, E) 



Chrysohothris deleta LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s. 11: 255; 



Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt., v. 5. p. 1421 ; Crotch, 1873, Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [25] : 90 ; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13 : 99- 



100, 120, pi. 5. figs. 150-154; Kerrernans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Mem. 



1: 211; Fall, 1901, Calif. Acad. Sci. Occas. Papers 8: 118; 1907, Canad. Ent. 



39: 238-239; Woodworth, 1913, Guide to California Insects, pp. 194, 196; 



Chamberlin, 1917, Ent. News 28: 139; 1925, N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. (1924) 



32: 193 (separate, p. 192) ; 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., pp. 146-147; 



1929, Pan-Pacific Ent. 5: 115. 

 Clirysobothris delecta Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, 



p. 619 (typographical error for deleta.) 

 Clirysobothris subcylindrica Motschulsky, 1859, Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou Bui. 32 



(2) : 182-1S3, pi. 4, fig. 17 ; Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt., v. 5, 



p. 1428. 



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Figure 5. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (O) and of female (D) of Clirysobothris deleta. 



Female. — Broadly elongate, rather strongly convex above, moderately shining, 

 uniformly piceous, with a faint purplish or bronzy tinge; beneath similar in 

 color, but more strongly shining than above. 



Head uniformly bronzy brown, with a vague, narrow chevron on vertex and 

 a longitudinal carina on occiput ; front nearly flat, with two indistinct, irregular, 

 smooth callosities ; surface coarsely, deeply, rather densely, irregularly punctate, 

 clothed with a few long, erect, inconspicuous hairs, the intervals feebly gran- 

 ulose ; clypeus broadly, rather deeply, arcuately emarginate in front, broadly 

 rounded on each side. Antenna uniformly bronzy brown, compact, feebly nar- 

 rowed to apex ; intermediate segments slightly wider than long, broadly rounded 

 at outer margins ; third segment slightly longer than fourth. 



Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, subequal in width at base and apex, 

 widest at middle; sides regularly arcuately rounded; posterior angles subrec- 

 tangular ; anterior margin slightly sinuate, with a broad, rather strongly 

 rounded, median lobe; base broadly, arcuately emarginate on each side, the 

 median lobe strongly produced and broadly rounded ; disk strongly convex, with 



