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(19) Chrysobothris aeneola LeConte 



(Fig. 19; fig. 113, D) 



^Chrysobothris aeneola LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 239-240; 

 Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt., v. 5, p. 1423; Crotch, 1873, 

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

 13: 109, 113-114, pi. 7, figs. 222-226 (part) ; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de 

 Belg. Mem. 1: 206 (part) ; Fall, 1901, Calif. Acad. Sci. Occas. Papers 8 : 118; 

 Wickham, 1902, Iowa Univ. Lab. Nat. Hist. Bui. 5 : 268 ; Fall and Cockerell, 

 1907, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 33 : 180 ; Woodworth, 1913, Guide to California 

 Insects, p. 195 ; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 137 

 (part); Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, p. 609 

 (part). 



Figure 19. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

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



Male. — Rather broadly elongate, moderately depressed above, subopaque, green- 

 ish to purplish brown ; beneath purplish brown, with a faint bronzy-green 

 reflection, and more strongly shining than above. 



Head bronzy green, with a smooth longitudinal carina on occiput, the carina 

 slightly bifurcate on vertex ; front slightly convex ; surface coarsely, densely, 

 deeply punctate posteriorly, confluently ocellate-punctate anteriorly, sparsely 

 •clothed with long, recumbent, whitish hairs, intervals densely granulose ; clypeus 

 broadly, rather deeply, angularly emarginate in front, slightly rounded on each 

 side. Antenna piceous, with a slight bronzy tinge, vaguely narrowed to apex ; 

 intermediate segments compact, transverse, broadly rounded at outer margins ; 

 third segment shorter than the following tw<5 segments united. 



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

 widest at basal third; sides slightly, arcuately converging at posterior angles, 

 sinuate and nearly parallel at middle, and strongly, arcuately constricted at 

 posterior angles, which are obtusely rounded ; anterior margin strongly sinuate, 

 with a strong, broadly rounded, median lobe; base broadly, arcuately emargi- 

 nate on each side, the median lobe moderately produced and broadly rounded ; 

 disk slightly depressed, with a vague median groove, slightly, broadly, trans- 

 versely depressed at middle behind anterior margin, and rather distinctly de- 

 pressed on each side near lateral margin ; surface finely, deeply, rather densely, 

 uniformly punctate, intervals densely granulose. 



Elytra at base subequal in width of pronotum at middle, not twice as long 

 -as wide ; sides rather strongly diverging from humeral angles to middle, strongly, 



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