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The color on the middle of the pronotum varies from purplish 

 brown to greenish black. Sometimes there are two small callosities 

 on the front of the head. The longitudinal costae on the elytra are 

 sometimes purplish brown like the rest of the surface, and the foveae 

 on the elytra are more distinct on some of the specimens. In well 

 preserved specimens the white pubescence on the under side of the 

 body is made more conspicuous by the presence of white efflorescence. 

 The length is from 7.25 to 8.5 mm. 



Fall described the species from two specimens, one collected at Hot 

 Springs by Barber and Schwarz, the other specimen marked "Ariz.," 

 without any definite locality, which he selected as the type. 



(41) Chrysobothris piuta Wickham 

 (Fig. 41 ; fig. 116, E) 



Chrysobothris piuta Wickhain, 1903, Canad. Ent. 35: 67-69; Fall, 1907, Cauad. 

 •Ent 39: 238; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat Buprestidae North Amer., p. 165; 

 Van Dyke, 1934, Ent. News 45 : 66; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.) , Coleopt. 

 Cat., pt. 132, p. 645 ; Chamberlin, 1938, Pan-Pacific Ent. 14 : 14 ; Knull, 1938, 

 Soc. Ent. Amer. Ann. 31 : 13S, pi. 1, fig. 6. 



Figure 41. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

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



Male. — Oblong, moderately convex above, rather strongly shining; pronotum 

 purplish red anteriorly, bluish toward base ; elytra bluish black on basal halves, 

 except sutural margins, a short, narrow vitta toward lateral margins, and the 

 depressed foveae (which are coppery or greenish brown), and coppery brown 

 with purplish or greenish reflections in different lights on apical halves ; beneath 

 purplish brown, with a faint bronzy-green tinge. 



Head bronzy green in front, becoming coppery yellow on occiput, with a smooth 

 longitudinal carina on occiput, and an indistinct chevron on vertex separating 

 the coppery and greenish areas; front slightly convex; surface finely, densely 

 granulose, coarsely, densely, deeply, uniformly punctate, rather densely clothed 

 with long, semierect, whitish hairs ; clypeus broadly, triangularly emarginate in 

 front, obtusely rounded on each side. Antenna uniformly bronzy brown, slightly 

 narrowed to apex ; intermediate segments not strongly compact, wider than long, 

 broadly rounded at outer margins; third segment nearly as long as following 

 two segments united. 



