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Nevada: No definite locality (type series). 

 Oregon: No definite locality (A. Koebele). 



Also recorded in the literature from: 



California: Miami; Aznsa ; Calaveras: and Weed, July (Chainberlin 1926). 

 Oregon : Josephine, June 11 (Chamberlin 1926). 



Hosts. — This species has been reared from incense cedar (Liho- 

 cedinis decurrens Torrey) by H. E. Burke, F. B. Herbert, and J. J. 

 Sullivan in California, and the adults have been collected on this 

 host by various collectors. Burke (1917) records it as mining the 

 inner bark and wood of normal, injured, and dead trees, killing sap- 

 lings and small trees. It is very common in felled incense cedar, and 

 has been reared by F. B. Herbert from Monterey cypress (Oupressus 

 macrocarpa Gordon). Van Dyke (1924) records collecting adults on 

 western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis Hooker) in southern Oregon. 



The sculpture and coloration on the dorsal surface of the body are 

 rather constant, but in some of the specimens the punctured areas 

 are more reddish cupreous than in others. The color on the front of 

 the head in the males varies from uniformly reddish cupreous to 

 bronzy green, frequently becoming brownish cupreous on the occiput. 

 The clypeus is more shallowly emarginate in the lectotype than in 

 most of the specimens examined, and frequently has a narrow notch 

 at the middle of the emargination. The shape of the pronotum is 

 quite variable, and the specimens are about equally divided between 

 those having the sides parallel and sinuate at the middle, and those 

 with the pronotum widest near apex, and the sides strongly, obliquely 

 converging posteriorly. The depressions on the pronotum are more 

 or less variable in shape, and occasionally there is a vague, smooth 

 callosity on each side of the middle at the apical third. The ab- 

 dominal sternites are usually without lateral callosities, but in a few 

 specimens examined they were slightly indicated. The emargina- 

 tion at the apex of the last visible abdominal sternite in the female 

 of this species is more variable than usual, and in most of the speci- 

 mens it is rather deeply, narrowly emarginate, but in a few it is 

 more broadly emarginate, and frequently has a slight transverse 

 anteapical lamina. The length is from 9 to 14.5 mm. 



The two specimens labeled "Cala." in the LeConte collection are 

 probably the ones mentioned by Horn from Calaveras, Calif., in his 

 original description. 



(68) Chrysobothris monticola Fall 



(Fig. 65; fig. 120, E) 



Chrysooothris monticola Fall, 1910, N. Y. Bnt. Soc. Jour. 18 : 51-52, fig. lg; 

 Woodworth, 1913, Guide to California Insects, p. 196 ; Chamberlin, 1917, Ent. 

 News 28: 136; Van Dvke, 1918, Ent. News 29: 57-58; Chamberlin, 1925, 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. (1924) 32:193 (separate, p. 192); 1926, Cat. 

 Buprestidae North Amer., p. 164 ; 1929, Pan-Pacific Ent. 5 : 115 ; Obenberger, 

 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat, pt. 132, p. 642; Chamberlin, 1934, Pan- 

 Pacific Ent. 10: 39, fig. 2. 



Male. — Moderately elongate, rather strongly depressed above, strongly shining, 

 uniformly piceous on the elevated, smooth spaces, brownish cupreous in the de- 

 pressed, densely punctured areas; beneath uniformly purplish cupreous and 

 strongly shining. 



Head golden green in front, becoming cupreous on occiput, with two small 

 callosities on front, and a smooth, longitudinal carina on occiput; front flat;; 



