A REVISION OF NORTH AMERICAN CHRYSOBOTHRINI 167 



DISTRIBUTION 



From material examined : 



Alberta: Waterton, July 17; Banff, July 19 to August 8, type series (F. S. Carr). 

 British Columbia: Merritt, Midday Valley, June 1924 (K. F. Auden). Field, 



August 5, 1921 (E. M. Walker). Salmon Arm, June 1928 (H. B. Leech). 

 California: No definite locality (Bowditcli coll.). 

 Wyoming: Yellowstone National Park, July 30 (Hubbard and Schwarz). 



Also recorded by Chamberlin in his description from the following 

 localities : 



Alberta: Medicine Hat (F. S. Carr). 



Oregon: Strawberry Mountains, Grant County, 8,600 feet, "which differs but 

 little from the typical form." (This may be vulcanica.) 



Hos t.— Unknown. 



Very little variation was observed in the few specimens examined. 

 The color in the depressed areas on the dorsal surface of the body varies 

 from bronzy green to cupreous and the smooth callosities are sometimes 

 absent on the front of the head. The third segment of the antenna is 

 slightly variable in length, occasionally being subequal in length to 

 the following two segments united. The length is from 15 to 17 mm. 



Chamberlin described the species from six specimens, two males and 

 four females. This may be the same as vulcanica LeConte, but since 

 the male of that species is unknown, it seems advisable to retain the two 

 forms as separate species, at least until more material is available for 

 study and both sexes of vulcanica can be associated. The female type 

 of vulcanica differs from the female allotype of canadensis only in 

 having the clypeus arcuately emarginate in front, the sides of the 

 pronotum arcuately rounded, and the last visible abdominal sternite 

 broadly rounded at the apex. In case these two species should prove 

 to be identical, vulcanica has priority. 



(72) Chrysobothris oalifornica LeConte 



(Fig. 69; fig. 121, C) 



Chrysobothris calif ornica LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 

 255 ; Crotch, 1873, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [25] : 90 ; Horn, 1883, Amer. 

 Ent. Soc. Trans. 10: 287 (identification?) ; 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13: 

 93, 120, pi. 4, figs. 110-114 (part) ; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Mem. 

 1: 208; Blaisdell, 1892, Insect Life 5: 33 (not calif ornica) ; Fall, 1894, Ent. 

 News 5: 98 (=monticola) ; Cockerell, 1898, N. Mex. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 28: 

 152; Fall, 1901, Calif. Acad. Sci. Occas. Papers 8: 22, 117 (part monticola) ; 

 Fall and Cockerell, 1907, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 33: 180; Wright and 

 Coolidge, 1908, Ent. News, 19: 67; Fall, 1910, N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. 18: 46, 

 47-48, fig. la; Woodworth, 1913, Guide to California Insects, pp. 194, 195; 

 Chamberlin, 1917, Ent. News 28: 135; 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., 

 p. 141 (part); 1929, Pan-Pacific Ent. 5: 115; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk 

 (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, p. 613 (part) ; Chamberlin, 1934, Pan-Pacific 

 Ent. 10 : 42, fig. 24 ; Lange, 1937, Pan-Pacific Ent. 13 : 173. 



Some of these records probably apply to misidentified specimens. 



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

 piceous on the smooth spaces, purplish cupreous in the densely punctured, de- 

 pressed areas ; beneath purplish, with distinct greenish and bluish reflections in 

 different lights, and more strongly shining than above. 



