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Figure 37. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (0) and of female (D) of Chrysobothris neopusilla. 



Type locality. — Pennington Gap, Va. 



Type material. — Type, allotype, and paratypes in the United States 

 National Museum, No. 55295. 



Described from 14 specimens (one male type). The type, allo- 

 type, and 8 paratypes were collected in wasp cells in a clay bank at 

 the type locality, July 4, 1879, by H. G. Hubbard ; 1 paratype from 

 West Virginia, collected September 17, 1890, by A. D. Hopkins; 1 

 paratype labeled Syracuse, N. Y., June 9, 1924; and 2 paratypes 

 were reared from southern balsam fir {Abies fraseri (Pursh) Poiret) 

 collected at Try on, N. C, by W. F. Fiske. The specimens from 

 North Carolina are slightly more greenish than the ones from 

 Virginia. 



(38) Chrysobothris pusilla Castelnau and Gory 

 (Fig. 38; fig. 116, B) 



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

 Chrysobothris, pp. 53-54, pi. 10, fig. 72; LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. 

 Trans, (n. s.) 11: 238; Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt, v. 5, 

 p. 1427 ; Harrington, 1884, Canad. Ent. 16 : 71 ; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. 

 Trans. 13: 85, 97-98, pi. 5, figs. 140-144; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de 

 Belg. .Mem. 1 : 218 ; Hopkins, 1899, W. -Va. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 56 : 437 ; 

 Felt, 1905-1906, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 8 : 649, 658, pi. 20, fig. 9 ; Blatchley, 

 1910, Coleoptera of Indiana, pp. 789, 791; Smith, 1910, N. J. State Mus. 

 Rpt. 1909: 293; Manee, 1913, Ent. News 24: 170; Knull, 1920, Ent. News 

 31 : 6 ; 1922, Canad. Ent. 54 : 83 ; 1925, Ohio State Univ. Studies 2 : 3, 28, 33 ; 

 Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., pp. 167-168 ; Leonard, 1928, 

 N. Y. (Cornell) Agr. Expt. Sta. Mem. 101: 360; Chamberlin, 1934, Pan- 

 Pacific Ent. 10: 38, 40, fig. 8; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. 

 Cat., pt. 132, pp. 646-647; Procter, 1938, Biol. Survey Mt. Desert Island, 

 pt. 6, p. 123 ; Brimley, 1938, Insects of North Carolina, p. 172. 



Chrysobothris aegrota Dejean, 1833, Cat. Coleopt., ed. 2, p. 80, and 1836, ed. 3, 

 p. 90 (no description). 



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

 Chrysobothris, pi. 10, fig. 72, addenda p. 7 (listed in text as pusilla and on 

 plate as biguttata, corrected in addenda). 



