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Fabricius (1775) described Buprestis impressa from "Indiis" and 

 in 1787 described a species under the same name from "Tranque- 

 bariae." Gmelin (1788) proposed the new name tranquebarica for 

 the species described in 1787 by Fabricius. Two years later Olivier 

 (1790) proposed the new name excavata for the same species, and 

 this name was used by Fabricius in all his later works. Manner- 

 heim (1837) described Chrysobothris fraterna from Porto Rico, and 

 also rugosa from an unknown locality. In the same year Castelnau 

 and Gory described denticulata from Guadeloupe, but in the ad- 

 denda placed it as a synonym of fraterna. From the descriptions, 

 and from material examined from the type localities, fraterna, rugosa, 

 and denticulata are synonyms of tranquebarica. Chamberlin (1926) 

 places tumida Chevrolat as a synonym of this species, but this is an 

 error, as tumida is a valid species, and so far is only recorded from 

 Cuba, and probably all the Cuban records of tranquebarica should 

 be referred to tumida. Gory (1840) described Chrysobothris denti- 

 collis from Colombia, and it has been placed as a synonym of tran- 

 quebarica, but there is some doubt about this synonymy and the 

 type should be examined before the synonymy is accepted. "Aus- 

 tralian pine borer" has been adopted as the common name for this 

 species by the American Association of Economic Entomologists. 



(88) Chrysobotheis acuminata LeConte 

 (Fig. 84 ; fig. 123, E) 



Chrysobothris acuminata LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans. 11 : 237 ; 1881, 



Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 9 : xxxvi. 

 Chrysooothris acutipennis Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13: 104, 107-108 



(part) ; Waterhouse, 1887, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Coleopt, v. 3, pt. 1, pp. 42^3; 



Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 136 (part) ; Obenberger, 



1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, p. 608 (part) ; Knull, 1937, 



Ent. News 48 : 38. 



Figure 84.— Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (C) and of female (D) of Chrysooothris acuminata. 



