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Host. — Nothing is known of the larval habits of this species, but 

 the adults have been collected by G. Hofer in Arizona on horsebean 

 (Parkinsonia sp.). 



Very little variation was found in the specimens examined, except 

 in size and color. The specimens from Arizona are more bronzy 

 brown and less purplish than the type from Lower California. The 

 sides of the pronotum usually converge toward the base and apex, but 

 in a few examples the sides are nearly parallel from the apical fourth 

 to the base. Some specimens have the prosternum indistinctly lobed 

 in front, and with two more or less distinct, smooth callosities on the 

 front of the head. The length is from 11 to 14 mm. 



This species was described from a single male collected by George 

 Beyer. 



(31) Chrysobotheis texana LeConte 



(Fig. 31 ; fig. 115, B) 



Chrysobothris texana LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 234; 

 Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt, v. 5, p. 1428 ; Crotch, 1873, Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [25] : 90 ; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13 : 85, 

 96-97, pi. 5, figs. 130-134 ; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Mem. 1 : 221 ; 

 Cockerell, 1898, N. Mex. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 28 : 152 ; 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; Wood- 

 worth, 1913, Guide to California Insects, p. 196; Burke, 1918, Jour. Econ. 

 Ent. 11 : 211 ; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 173 ; Oben- 

 berger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat, pt. 132, pp. 653-654; Chamber- 

 lin, 1934, Pan-Pacific Ent. 10 : 36, 39, fig. 4. 



Figure 31. — Anterior tibia of male {A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (C) and of female (D) of Ghrysobothris texana. 



Male. — Moderately elongate, slightly flattened above, moderately shining, 

 bronzy brown, with a faint cupreous reflection, pronotum more reddish cupreous ; 

 beneath purplish brown, slightly greenish along posterior margins of abdominal 

 sternites, and more strongly shining than above. 



Head reddish cupreous, greenish along anterior margin of clypeus, with two 

 small, smooth callosities on front, and a narrow, longitudinal carina on occiput ; 

 front slightly convex, transversely depressed between antennal cavities; surface 



