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specimen in the United States National Museum from San Antonio, 

 N. Mex., is labeled as having been reared from peach {Amygdalus 

 persica Linnaeus) . 



This species shows very little variation except in size and colora- 

 tion. The color on the dorsal surface of the body varies from viola- 

 ceous blue, through all shades of green, to olivaceous green. The 

 tooth on the anterior femur is usually rather long and more or less 

 acute, but occasionally specimens are found with the tooth short and 

 obtusely rounded. The length is from 6 to 9.5 mm. 



(97) Chrysobotheis cheysoeia (Illiger) 

 (Fig. 93 ; fig. 124, F) 



Buprestis chrysoela Illiger, 1800, in Wiedemann, Arch. f. Zool., v. 1, pt. 2, pp. 

 122-123. 



Chrysobothris chrysoela Saunders, 1871, Cat. Buprestidarum, p. 96; Provancher, 

 1877, Nat. Canad. 9: 312-313; Schwarz, 1878, Amer. Phil. Soc. Proc. 17: 

 451; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13: 109, 114-115, pi. 7, figs. 227- 

 231; Schwarz, 1888, Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 1 : 93 ; Kerremans, 1892, Soc. 

 Ent. de Belg. Mem. 1: 209; Fiske, 1902, Ga. State Hort. Soc. Proc. 26: 75, 

 fig. 7; Manee, 1913, Ent. News 24: 170; Blatchley, 1917, Canad. Ent. 49: 

 239; Chamberlin, 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 143; Knull, 1927, 

 Ent. News 38: 115; 1930, Ent. News 41: 83; Obenberger, 1926, in Junk 

 (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, pp. 615-616; Brimley, 1938, Insects of North 

 Carolina, p. 172. 



Buprestis hybernata Fabricius, 1801, Systema Ent., v. 2, p. 209 ; Schonherr, 1817, 

 Synonymia Insect., v. 1, pt. 3, p. 236; Say, 1836, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans. 

 6: 158. 



Chrysobothris hybernata Dejean, 1833, Cat. Coleopt., ed. 2, p. 80, 1836, ed. 3, 

 p. 90; Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, Chrysobothris, 

 pp. 16-17, pi. 4, fig. 24; Mannerheim, 1837, Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou Bui. 10 

 (8) : 78-79; LeConte, 1859, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 238. 



Chrysobothris mellicula Dejean, 1833, Cat. Coleopt., ed. 2, p. 80, 1836, ed. 3, p. 

 90 (no description). 



Chrysobothris viridipunctata Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 

 2, Chrysobothris, p. 21, pi. 4, fig. 31; LeConte, 1857, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 Proc. [9] : 8 ; 1873, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. [25] : 332. 



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

 important ones being listed. 



Figure 93. — Anterior tibia of male (A), clypeus (B), and last visible abdominal 

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



