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NOTES AND RECORDS BY SPECIES 



(1) Actenodes auronotata (Castelnau and Gory) • 

 (Fig. 110, A) 



Actenodes bellula Dejean (not Mannerheim ) , 1833, Cat. Coleopt, ed. 2, p. 80; 

 1936, ed. 3, p. 90 (no description) : Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. 

 Coleopt., v. 5, p. 1421 (part) ; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Mem. 

 1:200 (part) ; Champlain and Knull, 1922, Canad. Ent. 54: 102; Obenberger, 

 1934, in Junk (pub.), Cat. Coleopt., pt. 132, p. 661 (part). 



Chrysobothris auronotata Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, 

 Chrysobothris, p. 20; Jacquelin-Duval, 1857, in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. 

 Phys. Polit. et Nat. de l'lle de Cuba [pt. 2, Hist. Nat.], French ed., p. 64, 

 pi. 7, fig. 8. (Spanish ed., v. 7, p. 29, v. 8, pi. 7, fig. 8.) 



Chrysobothris auronota Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, 

 Chrysobothris, pi. 4, fig. 30, addenda p. 6 (error on plate, = auronotata) . 



Actenodes bella LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 240-241; 

 1863, Smithsn. Inst. Misc. Collect. 140: 43; Gemminger and Harold, 1869, 

 Cat. Coleopt., v. 5, p. 1420. 



Actenodes auronotata Chevrolat, 1867, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (ser. 4) 7: 

 584 (reprint, p. 160) ; LeConte, 1873, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [25] 

 332; Schwarz, 1878, Amer. Phil. Soc. Proc. 17: 451; Schaeffer, 1904, N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc. Jour. 12: 209; Wenzel, 1906, Ent. News 17: 38; Dozier, 1918, 

 Ent. News 29: 331; Fisher, 1925, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 65 (9) : 88-90; 

 Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., pp. 42-43 (part) ; Oben- 

 berger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, pp. 660-661. 



Buprestis auriguttata Sturm, 1826, Cat. Insecten-Sammlung, p. 104 (no descrip- 

 tion). 



Chrysobothris auriguttata Sturm, 1843, Cat. Kafer Sammlung, p. 61 (no descrip- 

 ti(m,= auronota Castelnau and Gory). 



Male. — Broadly elongate, rather strongly convex above, subopaque, dark 

 brown, with faint cupreous and bronzy reflections, the scutellum bright green, 

 and the elytra ornamented with golden-green spots ; beneath dark brown, with 

 distinct bronzy-green and cupreous tinges, and strongly shining. 



Head uniformly dark brown, vaguely cupreous, with a narrow, smooth, lon- 

 gitudinal carina on occiput and vertex ; front slightly convex ; surface glabrous, 

 coarsely, densely, deeply ocellate-punctate, the punctures more or less contiguous 

 between antennal cavities, the intervals finely granulose ; clypeus sinuately 

 truncate in front. Eyes nearly contiguous on top of head. Antenna bronzy 

 green on basal segments, greenish black on apical segments, slightly narrowed 

 to apex; outer segments compact, twice as wide as long, broadly rounded at 

 outer margins; third segment as long as the following two segments united. 



Pronotum twice as wide as long, narrower at apex than at base, widest at 

 base; sides arcuately converging at apical angles, slightly sinuate and obliquely 

 diverging from apical fourth to posterior angles, which are slightly expanded; 

 base transversely sinuate on each side, with a broadly rounded median lobe; 

 disk moderately convex, with a narrow, shallow, transverse depression behind 

 middle, surface coarsely, densely, deeply, uniformly punctate, more or less 

 rugose at sides, intervals densely granulose. 



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

 wide; sides parallel from humeral angles to middle, then arcuately converging 

 to tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded ; basal depressions broad, shallow ; 

 humeral depressions indistinct ; surface glabrous, finely, densely, uniformly 

 punctate, finely, transversely rugose, intervals (except on golden-green spots) 

 densely granulose, and each elytron ornamented with a golden-green or cop- 

 pery color as follows: A narrow vitta along sutural margin behind scutellum 

 and near apex ; a similar vitta along lateral margin posteriorly and at humeral 

 angles ; and with four large, round, not impressed spots, one at base, one on disk 

 in front of middle, one at lateral margin in front of middle, and one on disk 

 just behind middle. 



Abdomen beneath finely, sparsely, shallowly, irregularly punctate, vaguely, 

 longitudinally rugose, glabrous, intervals indistinctly granulose, and the three 

 apical sternites with a rather wide, transverse, smooth space along anterior 

 margins; last visible sternite broadly truncate at apex, with a small tooth at 

 ea.ch exterior angle; eighth tergite broadly rounded at apex, sparsely, coarsely 



