A KEVISION OP NORTH AMERICAN CHRYSOBOTHRINT 



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(12) Chrysobotheis pxjbescens Fall 

 (Fig. 12; fig. 112, E) 



Chrysobothris pubescens Fall, 1907, Canad. Ent. 39 : 238-239 ; Woodworth, 1913, 

 Guide to California Insects, p. 196; Blaisdell, 1916, Pacific Coast Ent. Soc. 

 Proc. 1: (pages not numbered) ; Chamberlin, 1917, Ent. News 28: 139; 1925, 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. (1924) 32 : 193 (separate, p. 192) ; 1926, Cat. Buprestidae 

 North Amer. } p. 166; 1929, Pan-Pacific Ent. 5: 115; anonymous, 1929, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Off. Rec. 8 (24) : 3 (misidentification, —fragariae) ; anonymous, 

 . 1929, U. S. Dept. Agr. Insect Pest Survey Bui. 9, pp. 104, 138, 402 

 (=fragariae) ; Fisher, 1930, Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 32: 151: Obenberger, 

 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat, pt. 132, p. 646 (part) ; Chamberlin, 1934, 

 Pan-Pacific Ent. 10 : 36, 37. 



Chrysobothris subpubescens Van Dyke, 1937, Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 32: 112 

 (error for pubescens) . 



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FifcHJEE 12. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (O) and of female (D) of Chrysobothris pubescens. 



Male. — Moderately elongate, slightly flattened above, faintly shining, bronzy 

 brown, with a distinct purplish tinge ; beneath bronzy brown, with a distinct 

 purplish reflection in different lights, and more strongly shining than above. 



Head bright green in front, becoming reddish cupreous on occiput, with a 

 smooth, narrow, longitudinal carina on occiput ; front nearly flat ; surface 

 coarsely, densely punctate, more or less rugose, rather densely clothed with 

 long, erect, inconspicuous hairs; clypeus deeply, broadly, angularly emarginate 

 in front, subtruncate on each side. Antenna piceous, with basal segments green- 

 ish, slightly narrowed to apex ; intermediate segments slightly transverse, broadly 

 rounded at outer margins ; third segment subequal in length to fourth. 



Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, slightly wider at base than at apex, 

 widest at middle; sides slightly, arcuafely rounded (indistinctly parallel at 

 middle) ; anterior margin strongly sinuate, with a broadly rounded median lobe ; 

 base broadly, arcuately emarginate on each side, the median lobe strongly pro- 

 duced and subtruncate in front of scutellum ; disk slightly flattened, without 

 callosities, but with a vague median depression ; surface rather densely, coarsely, 

 irregularly punctate, sparsely clothed with moderately long, erect,' fine hairs. 



Elytra at base distinctly wider than pronotum, nearly twice as long as wide ; 

 sides nearly parallel from humeral angles to behind middle, then arcuately con- 

 verging to tips, which are separately broadly rounded ; lateral margins finely 

 serrate ; basal depressions broad and moderately deep ; humeral depressions broad 



