104 MISC. PUBLICATION 4 7 0, U. S, DEFT. OF AGRICTJUTORE 



Buprestis strangulata Harris, 1835, in Hitchcock, Rpt. on Geol., etc., Mass., 



ed. 2, p. 558 (no description). 

 Chrysolothris strangulata Melsheimer, 1844, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 2 : 147. 



Figuke 38. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (C) and of female (D) of Chrysobothris pusilla. 



Male. — Moderately elongate, slightly convex above, moderately shining, dark 

 bronzy brown, with depressions and punctures cupreous ; beneath brownish 

 cupreous, with a faint bronzy tinge, and more strongly shining than above. 



Head bronzy brown, becoming brownish cupreous on occiput, with two 

 vague, smooth callosities on front, and a narrow, smooth, longitudinal carina 

 on occiput; front nearly flat; surface coarsely, deeply, rather densely punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with short, semierect hairs, intervals densely granulose ; clypeus 

 broadly, shallowly, arcuately emarginate in front, subtruncate on each side. 

 Antenna uniformly bronzy brown, slightly narrowed to apex; intermediate 

 segments subtriangular, compact, slightly wider than long, broadly rounded at 

 outer margins ; third segment nearly as long as following two segments united. 



Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, subequal in width at base and 

 apex, widest along middle ; sides nearly parallel at middle, arcuately converging 

 toward base and apex; anterior margin broadly, arcuately emarginate, without 

 a distinct median lobe; base arcuately emarginate on each side, median lobe 

 slightly produced, and subtruncate in front of scutellum ; disk slightly uneven, 

 with a vague, longitudinal, median depression, a few obsolete depressions on 

 each side, and with more or less distinct, small, smooth callosities ; surface 

 coarsely, irregularly punctate, more densely at sides, intervals feebly granulose. 



Elytra slightly wider than pronotum,, twice as long as wide, widest behind 

 middle ; sides slightly diverging from humeral angles to behind middle, then 

 arcuately converging to tips, which are separately narrowly rounded; lateral 

 margins coarsely serrate ; basal depressions broad and deep ; humeral depres- 

 sions broad and shallow; surface glabrous, coarsely, rather densely, irregu- 

 larly punctate, intervals finely granulose. Each elytron with four more or 

 less distinct longitudinal costae ; first rather distinct from apex to basal third ; 

 second and third irregular, interrupted by the vague foveae, and more or less 

 connected transversely to each other and the first costa by elevated, smooth 

 spaces ; third barely indicated, following outline of lateral margin ; and with 

 two obsolete foveae, one in front of middle interrupting second costa, and an 

 oblique one behind middle, interrupting second and third costae. 



Abdomen beneath finely, irregularly punctate, more densely at sides, sparsely 

 clothed with short, recumbent, white hairs, without lateral callosities, inter- 



