A REVISION OF NORTH AMERICAN CHRYSOBOTHRINI 



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Type locality. — Of acutipewmis, "Tuspan, Mexico." (This is prob- 

 ably Tuxpam on the coast between Tampico and Vera Cruz) ; type 

 in the British Museum. Of cupreosignata, Mexico, and of cupreoaenea, 

 Cayenne, French Guiana; types in the collection of Kene Oberthur. 



DISTRIBUTION 



From material examined : 



c. 



Texas: Brownsville, February and March, reared (W. H. Anderson). 

 Panama: Old Panama, January 31, 1911 (Aug. Busck). San Felin (G 



Champion). Santiago, April 14. 

 Nicaragua: Labeled "Ometepe, Nicaragua, Shimek." 

 Costa Rica: La Caja, near San Jose, altitude 900 meters, June 1931 (M. 



Valerio). Rosario, December 17, 1983 (J. M. Peralta). 

 Mexico: Almolonga, State of Vera Cruz, November. 



Also recorded in the literature from Arizona and Lower California, 

 and from various localities in Mexico, British Honduras, Guatemala, 

 Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, and Guiana. 



Host. — Adults have been reared from larvae collected in Texas 

 ebony (Pithecellobium flexicasule (Bentham) Coulter) at Brownsville, 

 Tex., by W. H. Anderson. James Zetek reports this species as doing 

 very serious damage to orange and lime trees at Santiago, Panama. 



The sculpture is rather constant but the color on the dorsal surface 

 of the body varies from olivaceous green to bluish or greenish black, 

 and in the densely punctured areas from olivaceous green to a bril- 

 liant reddish cupreous. The length is from 13.5 to 16.5 mm. 



(90) Chrysobothris merkelh Horn 



(Fig. 86; fig. 124, A) 



Chfysobothis merkelii Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc Trans. 13 : 104, 106-107, pi. 6, 

 figs. 183-187; Fall, 1901, Calif. Acad. Sci. Occas. Papers 8: 22, 118; 

 Van Dyke, 1902, N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. 10: 173; Woodworth, 1913, Guide to 

 California Insects, pp. 194, 196; Van Dyke, 1917, Pacific Coast Ent. Soc. 

 Proc. 1: (pages not numbered); Burke, 1918, Jour. Econ. Ent. 11: 211; 

 Van Dyke, 1918, Ent. News 29: 58; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae 

 North Amer., p. 163; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 

 132, pp. 641-642. 



Figure 86. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

 sternite of male (C) and of female (D) of Chrysobothris merkelii. 



