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cords the species as mining the bark and wood of dying and dead 

 limbs and trunks of emory oak {Quercus emoryi Torrey), palo 

 bianco {Geltis reticulata Torrey), catclaw (Acacia greggii Gray), 

 mesquite. (Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) De Candolle), and palo vercle 

 (Cercidium torreyanum (Watson) Sargent) collected in Arizona, 

 but most of these records refer to lateralis or prosopidis and should 

 be verified. Fall (1901) and Van Dyke (1918) record it as breeding 

 in mesquite in California. 



The sculpture on the dorsal surface of the body is rather uniform, 

 but the color is slightly variable ; some specimens are more cupreous 

 than others and the foveae on the elytra vary in color from yellow- 

 ish green to reddish cupreous. In a few specimens examined the 

 sides of the pronotum are nearly parallel at the middk. and strongly 

 convergent posteriorly. The abdominal sternites are with or without 

 vague lateral callosities. The length is from 6.5 to 8.5 mm. 



LeConte describes this species from the "Western States : one male 

 from Ohio, Dr. Schaum." There may be some mistake in the label- 

 ing of this specimen, as no specimens have been seen from the East, 

 and all the specimens examined which agree with the type are from 

 the Western States. 



Chrysobothris disjuncta is more uniformly reddish cupreous in 

 color and was placed by Horn (1886) as a synonym of debilis. 



(24) Cheysoeotheis edwaedsii Horn 



(Fig. 24 ; fig. 114, A) 



Chrysobothris edivardsii Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13: 71, 74, pi. 2, 

 figs. 11-14; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Mem. 1: 212 (edioarsi, 

 typographical error) ; Horn, 1894, Calif. Acad. Sci. Proc. (ser. 2) 4: 328; 

 Burke, 1918, Jour. Econ. Ent. 11: 210; Schaeffer, 1905, Brooklyn Inst. 

 Arts and Sci., Mus., Sci. Bui. 1: 129; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae 

 North Amer., p. 149; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt» 

 132, pp. 622-623. 



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Figuee 24.— Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (C) and of female (D) of Chrysobothris edwardsil 



