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lection, and simply labeled with a disk, is probably the specimen men- 

 tioned by LeConte as having been collected by Schott. Chamberlin 

 (1926) gives the type locality as Arizona, which is incorrect. 



(62) Chrysobotheis dentipes (Germar) 

 (Fig. 59 ; fig. 119, F) 



Buprestis characteristica Melshehner, 1806, Cat. of Insects of Pennsylvania, p. 45 

 (no description) ; Harris, 1829, New England Farmer 8 (1) : 2. 



Buprestis dentipes Germar, 1824, Insect. Species Novae, v. 1, pp. 38-39 ; Say, 1836, 

 Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 6: 158. 



Chrysobothris dentipes Mannerheim, 1837, Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou Bui. 10 (8) : 76; 

 LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 235; Fitch, 1859, N. X". 

 State Agr. Soc. Trans. 18: 793-794; Harris, 1862, Insects Injurious to Vege- 

 tation, pp. 49-50, fig. 24 ; Horn, 1886, Amer. But. Soc. Trans. 13 : 85, 87-88, 

 pi. 3, figs. 75-79 ; Packard, 1890, U. S. Ent. Comn. Rpt. 5 : 60-64, fig. 15 ; Felt, 

 1905-1906, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 8: 648, 657-658, pi. 20, fig. 11; Blarchley, 

 1910, Coleoptera of Indiana, pp. 788, 790, figs. 303-305 ; Chamberlin, 1917, Ent. 

 News 28: 135; 1925, N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. (1924) 32: 191 (separate, p. 190) ; 

 Knull, 1925, Ohio State Univ. Studies 2 (2) : 28, 30; Fisher, 1925, U. S. Natl. 

 Mus. Proc. 65 (9) : 93, 103-1C6 ; Good, 1925, Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 18: 258, 

 pi. 9, fig. 19 (wing venation) ; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North 

 Amer., pp. 147-148; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, 

 pp. 619-621 ; Chamberlin, 1934, Pan-Pacific Ent. 10 : 41, fig. 22. 



Buprestis ruficornis Sturm, 1828, Cat. Insecten-Sammlung, p. 105 (no description). 



Chrysobothris plicata Dajean, 1833, Cat. Coleopt., ed. 2, p. 83, 1836, ed. 3, p. 90 (no 

 description). 



Chrysobothris posticalis Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, 

 Chrysobothris, p. 56, pi. 10, fig. 76 ; Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt., 

 v. 5, p. 1426 (=plicata Dejean). 



Chrysobothris planata Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, 

 Chrysobothris, pp. 56-57, pi. 10, fig. 77. 



Chtysobothris rotundicollis Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, 

 Chrysobothris, p. 51, pi. 9, fig. 69; Fisher, 1925, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 65 (9) : 

 105 {=dentipes Germ.). 



Chrysobothris ruficornis Sturm, 1843, Cat. Kafer Sammlung, p. 61 (no descrip- 

 tion) ; Gemminger and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt., v. 5, p. 1425 (=de7itipes 

 Germ. ) . 



Chrysobothris maculicornis (LeConte Mss.) Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de Belg. 

 Mem. 1: 211 (—dentipes Germ.). 



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Figure 50. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

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



