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(51) Cheysobotheis floeicola Gory 



(Fig. 51 ; fig. 118, C) 



Chrysobothris floricola Gory, 1810. Monog. Buprestides, sup., v. 4, pp. 179-180, 

 pi. 30, fig. 175 ; LeConte, 1873, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [25] : 332 ; 

 Hubbard and Schwarz, 1878, Amer. Phil. Soc. Proc. 17: 636; Harrington, 

 1884. Canad. Ent. 16 : 71 ; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13 : SO, 81-82, 

 pi. 2, figs. 45-49 ; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Mem. 1 : 213 ; Evans, 

 1895, Canad. Ent. 27: 146; Felt, 1905-1906, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 8, pp. 

 649, 658, pi. 20, fig. 10 ; Blatchley, 1910, Coleoptera of Indiana, pp. 788. 790 : 

 Manee. 1913, Ent. News 24: 170; Johnson, 1915, Ent. News 26: 312; 

 Nicolay, 1919, Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 14: 19; Frost, 1920. Canad. Ent. 

 52: 28; Knull, 1922, Canad. Ent. 54: 83; 1925, Ohio State Univ. Studies 

 2 (2) : 29, pi. 5, fig. 2; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., 

 pp. 155-156: Leonard, 1928, N. Y. (Cornell) Agr. Expt. Sta. Mem. 101: 

 360; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, pp. 633-634; 

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



Chrysobothris femorata Castelnau and Gory (not Olivier), 1837, Monog. 

 Buprestides 2, Chrysobothris, pp. 48-49, pi. 9, fig. 65; Kerremans, 1892, 

 Soc. Ent. de Belg. Mem. 1 : 213. 



Chrysobothris calcarata Melsheimer, 1844, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 2: 146- 

 147; LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 234; Gemminger 

 and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt., v. 5, p. 1424. 



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

 more important ones being listed. 



Figuee 51. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (C) and of female (D) of Chrysobotliris floricola 



Male. — Rather broadly elongate, slightly convex above, strongly shining, 

 bronzy -cupreous ; beneath brownish cupreous, with a distinct purplish reflec- 

 tion, and the legs more or less greenish. 



Head brownish cupreous, bronzy green behind clypeus and along lateral 

 margins, with small, irregular, smooth callosities on front and a narrow, 

 longitudinal, smooth carina on occiput ; front nearly flat ; surface coarsely, 

 densely, irregularly punctate, sparsely clothed with rather long, semierect, fine 

 hairs, intervals finely granulose ; clypeus transversely sinuate in front, with a 

 short, broad, subtruncate, median lobe. Antenna bronzy green, nearly equal 

 in width to apex; intermediate segment subtriangular, slightly wider than long, 

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

 segments united. 



