A REVISION OF NORTH AMERICAN CHRYSOBOTHRINI 119 



The color varies from green or blue to violaceous black or bronzy 

 cupreous. The purplish-black vitta on each elytron in some speci- 

 mens does not extend to the apex or base and is frequently connected 

 posteriorly to a vitta of the same color along the lateral margin, but 

 in the violaceous-black specimens the vitta is inconspicuous. In some 

 specimens the surface of the head is longitudinally rugose on the 

 occiput and transversely rugose behind the clypeus. Usually the 

 sides of the pronotum converge from near the apex to the base, but 

 in a few specimens examined the sides were parallel at the middle. 

 The surface of the elytra is either uniformly punctured or coarsely, 

 densely punctate and more or less rugose basally, but becoming more 

 finely, sparsely punctured toward the apices. The eighth abdominal 

 tergite of the male is usually rounded at the apex, but occasionally 

 a specimen is found with a small triangular notch at the apex. The 

 length is from 6 to 7.5 mm. 



Horn (1886) described this species from Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, 

 and Texas, but Chamberlin (1926) selected the Texas specimen as 

 the lectotype. 



This species resembles purpureoplagiata, but the clypeus is more 

 shallowly emarginate in front, the purplish-black vittae on the elytra 

 usually extend from the base to the apex, and the distribution of 

 purpureovittata seems to be confined to the region east of the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



(46) Chbysobothbis haeeisi (Hentz) 



(Fig. 46; fig. 117, D) 



Buprestis harrisi Hentz, 1827, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Jour. (1826) 5: 373-374, 

 pi. 13, fig. 1; Harris, 1829, New England Farmer 8: No. 1, p. 2 ; 1833, in 

 Hitchcock's Rpt. on Geol., etc., Mass., p. 570, 1835, ed. 2, p. 558. 



Chrysotothris harrisi Harris, 1852, Insects Injurious to Vegetation, ed. 2, p. 

 44 ; Fitch, 1858, N. Y. State Agr. Soc. Trans. 17 : 703 ; LeConte, 1859, Anier. 

 Phil. Soc. Trans, (n, s.) 11: 239; Harris, 1862, Insects Injurious to Vege- 

 tation, Flint ed., p. 51, pi. 2, fig. 2; Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. 

 Coleopt, v. 5, pp. 1425-1426; Hubbard and Sehwarz, 1878, Amer. Phil. Soc. 

 Proc. 17: 636; Harrington, 1879, Canad. Ent. 11: 119; Saunders, 1884, Ent. 

 Soc. Ontario Ann. Kept. (1883) 14: 55; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. 

 Trans. 13: 85, 86, pi. 3, figs. 66-70; Packard, 1890, U. S. Ent. Comn. 

 Rpt. 5: 62, 680-681, fig. 220; Felt, 1906, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 8: 467, 

 751; Nicolay, 1917, Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 12: 93; Frost, 1920, Canad. 

 Ent. 52: 26; Knull, 1920, Ent. News 31 : 7 ; 1922, Canad. Ent. 54: 83; 



1925, Ohio State Univ. Studies 2 (2): 29-30, pi. 1, fig. 25; Chamberlin. 



1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 157; Leonard, 1928, N. Y. (Cornell) 

 Agr. Expt. Sta. Mem. 101: 361; Chamberlin, 1934, Pan-Pacific Ent. 10: 

 40; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat, pt. 132, pp. 635-636; 

 Brimley, 1938, Insects of North Carolina, p. 172. 



Clirysolotliris chlorocepliala Dejean, 1833, Cat. Coleopt., ed. 2, p. 80 and 1836, 

 ed. 3, p. 90 (no description) ; Gory. 1840, Monog. Buprestides, sup. 4, p. 

 161, pi. 27, fig. 156 ; Packard, 1890, U. S. Ent. Comn. Rpt. o : 69, fig. 19. 



Chritsobothris chalcophoroicles Smith (not Horn), 1887, Ent. Amer. 3: 39 (mis- 

 identification). 



Trachypteris harrisii Melsheimer, 1853, Cat. Coleopt. U. S., p. 65. 



The foregoing list of citations to the literature is not complete, only 

 the more important ones being shown. 



