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clothed with long, recumbent, whitish pubescence, except along anterior margins 

 of sternites, where the surface is smooth and glabrous, without lateral callosi- 

 ties, the intervals vaguely granulose; last visible sternite broadly, transversely 

 sinuate at apex, without a distinct submarginal ridge, lateral margins strongly 

 serrate; eighth tergite broadly rounded at apex, densely, coarsely punctate, 

 but not longitudinally carinate. Prosternum densely, coarsely punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with moderately long, semierect, white hairs ; anterior margin strongly 

 deflexed, with a distinct, broad; long, median lobe. Anterior femur without a 

 tooth. Anterior tibia sinuate, unarmed at apex; middle and posterior tibiae 

 straight. 



Length 5.75 mm., width 2 mm. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Redescribed from the female lectotype, No. 3443, in the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Type locality. — Arizona, no definite locality. 



DISTRIBUTION 



From material examined: 



Catalina Springs, April 



Arizona: No definite locality. Type (Horn collection). 

 21 (Hubbard and Schwarz). 



Host. — The larval habits are unknown, but Hubbard and Schwarz 

 collected a specimen at Catalina Springs on either Acacia sp. or 

 Mimosa sp. 



No variation was observed in the three females examined except 

 in size and color, the length ranging from 5.75 to 6.5 mm. and the 

 color from bright green to bluish green. 



(21) Chrysobothris ct;preohumera:lis Van Dyke 



(Fig. 21 ; fig. 113, E) 



Chrysobothris cupreoJiumeralis Van Dyke, 1934, Ent. News 45 : 65-66. 



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Figure 21. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (C) of CKrysobotliris cupreoliumeralis. 



Male. — Broadly elongate, moderately convex above, subopaque, violaceous 

 black, each elytron ornamented with a large reddish-cupreous spot extending 

 along lateral margin from base to middle of elytron; beneath blackish, middle 

 and posterior femora bright bronzy cupreous on outer surfaces. 



