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between the specimens in the Notman collection collected by G. Beyer 

 at San Felipe and Santa Rosa and the type series collected by the 

 same collector at El Taste. The length is from 10 to 12.5 mm. 



Schaeffer described this species from two females collected by G. 

 Beyer and gave the localities as El Taste and Santa Rosa, Lower 

 California, but the two females received from the Brooklyn Museum 

 are labeled types and are both from El Taste. Schaeffer called the 

 species thoracicus, but this name is preoccupied by a species from the 

 West Indies described by Fabricius (1798), and Obenberger (1934) 

 has proposed the name schaefferi for thoracicus Schaeffer (not 

 Fabricius). 



(26) Chbysobothris basalis LeConte 

 (Fig. 26 ; fig. 114, 0) 



Ghrysobothris basalis LeConte, 1858, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [10] : 68; 



1858, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Jour. (ser. 2) 4 : 34 ; 1859, Anier. Phil. Soc. Trans. 



(n. s.) 11: 230-231; Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt, v. 5, p. 



1424 ; LeConte, 1873, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [25] : 332. 

 Chrysobothris atabalipa LeConte (not Castelnau and Gory), 1857, Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phila. Proc. [9] : 8 (misidentification) ; 1873, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



Proc. [25] : 332 ; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13 : 71, 72-73, 119, pi. 2, 



figs. 1-5 (part); Cockerell, 1898, N. Mex. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 28: 152; 



Fall and Cockerell, 1907, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 33 : 179 ; Chamberlin, 1926, 



Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 138 (part) ; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk 



(pub.), Cat. Coleopt., pt. 132, p. 610 (part). 

 Chrysobothris multistigmosa Kerremans (not Mannerheim), 1892, Soc. Ent. de 



Belg. Mem. 1: 217 (part) ; Waterhouse, 1887, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Coleopt, v. 



3, pt. 1, pp. 46-47 (part) ; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., 



p. 164 (part) ; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Cat. Coleopt., pt. 132, p. 



642 (part). 



B 



Figure 26. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible ab- 

 dominal sternite of male (G) and of female (D) of Ghrysobothris basalis. 



