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(39) Chrysobotheis lateralis Waterhouse 

 (Fig. 39 ; fig. 116, C) 



Chrysobothris lateralis Waterhouse, 1887, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Coleopt, y. 3. pt. 1, 

 p. 47, pi. 3, fig. 20, and 1889, v. 3, pt. 1, p. 185 ; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de 

 Belg. Mein. 1: 215; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 159: 

 Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, p. 638. 



Chrysobothris debilis Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13: 72, 75 (part) ; Water- 

 house, 1887. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Coleopt., v. 3, pt. 1, pp. 47-48; Burke, 1918, 

 Jour. Econ. Ent. 11: 210 (part) ; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North 

 Amer., pp. 145-146 (part) ; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 

 132, p. 618 (part). 



Figure 39. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

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



Male. — Moderately elongate, rather strongly convex above ; moderately shining, 

 reddish brown, with sides of pronotum and foveae on elytra bright reddish 

 cupreous ; beneath purplish or greenish black, with a faint cupreous reflection in 

 different lights. 



Head reddish cupreous, becoming greenish on clypeus, with two small, smooth, 

 irregular callosities on front, and a narrow longitudinal carina on occiput, the 

 carina slightly bifurcate anteriorly; front slightly convex; surface coarsely, 

 shallowly, densely punctate, obscurely, transversely rugose behind clypeus, rather 

 densely clothed with long, recumbent, white hairs, intervals densely granulose ; 

 clypeus deeply, semicircularly emarginate in front, arcuately rounded on each side. 

 Antenna uniformly brownish cupreous, not distinctly narrowed to apex; inter- 

 mediate segments slightly wider than long, broadly rounded at outer margins; 

 third segment slightly shorter than following two segments united. 



Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, narrower at base than at apex, widest 

 near apex ; sides converging from near apical angles to posterior angles, more 

 strongly on basal third; anterior margin sinuate, with an indistinct, broadly 

 rounded, median lobe ; base slightly, arcuately emarginate on each side, median 

 lobe slightly produced and broadly rounded ; disk moderately convex, without a 

 median depression or smooth callosities; surface finely, sparsely, shallowly 

 punctate, punctures well separated over entire surface, more or less rugose at 

 sides, intervals densely, finely granulose. 



Elytra slightly wider than pronotum, nearly twice as long as wide : sides 

 parallel from humeral angles to apical third, then arcuately converging to tips, 

 which are separately broadly rounded ; lateral margins coarsely serrate ; basal 

 depressions broad and shallow ; humeral depressions indistinct ; surface glabrous, 

 coarsely, densely punctate, more or less rugose toward base, intervals densely, 

 finely granulose. Each elytron with three more or less distinct longitudinal 

 costae: first slightly elevated on apical half, curving away from sutural margin 



