174 -MISC. PUBLICATION 1 4 70, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Host. — Unknown. 



Scarcely any variation was observed in the few specimens examined, 

 but Knull (1930) states that the southern specimens have the chitinized 

 areas of the dorsal surface of the body more pronounced and lack the 

 grayish-green color of the punctured areas, which are distinctly 

 marked in the type and allotype. 



(76) Chrysobothris htjbbardi, new species 



(Fig. 72) 



Figure 72. — Clypeus (A) and last visible abdominal sternite of the female (B) 

 of Chrysohothris huddardi. 



Female. — Broadly elongate, moderately convex above, rather strongly shining, 

 piceous on elevated, smooth spaces, distinctly cupreous in depressed, punctured 

 areas ; beneath cupreous, with a faint greenish tinge, and more strongly shining 

 than above. 



Head reddish cupreous, with a broad, elongate, smooth space on occiput, and 

 two small, smooth callosities on front ; front slightly convex ; surface coarsely, 

 confluently punctate, sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous, semierect hairs ; 

 clypeus deeply, broadly, arcuately emarginate in front, arcuately rounded on 

 each side. Antenna bronzy green, gradually narrowed to apex ; intermediate 

 segments subtriangular, not compact, as long as wide, broadly rounded at outer 

 margins ; third segment as long as following two segments united. 



Pronotum twice as wide as long, wider at base than at apex, widest near base ; 

 sides arcuately converging at base, slightly sinuate and converging from near 

 posterior angles to apical angles ; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, without 

 a median lobe ; base arcuately emarginate on each side, median lobe slightly pro- 

 duced and broadly rounded ; disk moderately convex, uneven, with a broad, longi- 

 tudinal, median depression, and two broad, elongate, elevated, smooth spaces on 

 each side ; surface irregularly, confluently punctate between smooth spaces, and 

 with a few short hairs at sides. 



Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum, nearly twice as long as wide; sides 

 nearly parallel from humeral angles to behind middle, then arcuately converging 

 to tips, which are separately broadly rounded ; lateral margins coarsely serrate ; 

 basal depressions broad and deep; humeral depressions smaller and shallower; 

 surface glabrous. Each elytron with first costa slightly elevated and irregular 

 on apical half, the other costae replaced by broad, irregular, elevated, smooth 

 spaces, alternating with finely, densely punctured areas. 



Abdomen beneath rather densely, finely punctate, rather densely clothed with 

 short, erect, white hairs, with slightly elevated, smooth, lateral callosities, inter- 

 vals indistinctly granulose ; last visible sternite broadly, shallowly, arcuately 

 emarginate at apex, with a vague, serrate, submarginal ridge, lateral margins 

 coarsely serrate ; eighth tergite very deeply, confluently punctate, with a few in- 

 conspicuous, erect hairs, and broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum coarsely, 

 irregularly punctate, sparsely clothed with long, recumbent hairs ; anterior mar- 

 gin with median lobe vaguely indicated. Anterior femur with a large, rather 

 acute tooth, which is not distinctly dentate on outer margin. Anterior and middle 

 tibiae slightly arcuate, unarmed ; posterior tibia straight. 



Length 17 mm., width 7 mm. 



Male. — Unknown. 



