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marks : "The C. costifrons Chevr. is very near to aerea, but the elytral 

 impressions are more rounded and brilliant golden." From these com- 

 ments Horn was satisfied that the characters referred to by Salle were 

 purely varietal, and that costifrons could not be considered a distinct 

 species, so he rsed aerea and cited the species as occurring in Arizona, 

 and extending as far south as Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Waterhouse (1887) states that the unique type of aerea is in the 

 British Museum, and that it differs from the species referred to 

 by Horn, so he describes aerea Horn (not Chevrolat) using costi- 

 frons Chevr., a manuscript name. He gives the habitat as North 

 America, Arizona (Morrison), and Mexico, north Sonora (Mor- 

 rison), Orizaba (Salle), and Oaxaca. The Arizona and Oaxaca local- 

 ities are cited from Horn's article. 



There has been much confusion regarding the specimens collected 

 by H. K. Morrison and labeled Sonora and Arizona. Schwarz (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Wash. 4: 209, 1899), commenting on the collections made by 

 Morrison, remarked as follows: 



Morrison's sets, when sent abroad, were usually labeled Sonora and bave 

 thus been included in the Biologia Centrali-Americana. When sent to American 

 workers, however, they are labeled Arizona. They were probably all collected, 

 however, in the Graham Mountains near Fort Grant, and above Fort Huachuca, 

 Arizona. 



Since the specimens sold by Morrison to LeConte, Horn, Schwarz, 

 the British Museum, etc., are probably all topotypes, I am herewith 

 designating the specimen in the British Museum collected by Mor- 

 rison and listed by Waterhouse in his description from northern 

 Sonora as the lectotype. 



(87) Cheysobotheis teanqtjebabica (Gmelin) 

 (Fig. 83; fig. 123, D) 



Buprestis impressa Fabricius, 1787 (not Fabricius 1775), Mantissa Insect, v. 1, p. 



182. 

 Buprestis tranquebarica Gmelin, 1788, Systema Nat., v. 1, pt. 4, p. 1932 (new name 



for impressa Fabricius 1787). 

 Buprestis excavata Olivier, 1790, Encyc. Methodique, Insectes, v. 5, p. 232 (new 



name for impressa Fabricius 1787) ; Fabricius, 1792, Ent. System., v. 1, pt. 2, 



p. 206 ; 1801, Systema Eleutheratorum, v. 2, p. 205. 

 Chrysobothris impressa Eschscholtz, 1829, Zool. Atlas, v. 1, p. 9 (separate, p. 8) ; 



Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13 : 69, 109-110, pi. 6, figs. 198-202 ; Snyder, 



1916, Jour. Econ. Ent. 9 : 452, 

 Chrysobothris rugosa Mannerheim, 1837, Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou Bui. 10 (8) : 



74-75. 

 Chrysobothris fraterna Mannerheim, 1837, Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou Bui. 10 (8) : 



75-76. 

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



Chrysobothris, p. 46, pi. 8, fig. 62, addenda p. 7. 

 Chrysobothris denticollis Gory, 1840, Monog. Buprestides, sup. 4, p. 178, pi. 30, fig. 



173. 

 Chrysobothris tranquebarica Fisher, 1919, Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. (1918) 20: 173- 



177; Snyder, 1919, Jour. Agr. Res. 16: 155-163, pis. 18-21, text figs. 1-2; 



Fisher, 1925, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 65 (9) : 96-99; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. 



Buprestidae North Amer., p. 174 (part) ; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), 



Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, pp. 654-655. 

 Chrysobothris clialcophoroicles Smith (not Horn), 1887, Ent. Amer. 3: 39 (mis- 

 identification) ; Schwarz, 1888, Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 1:93 (correction). 



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

 important ones being listed. 





