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Figure 95. — Clypeus (A), and last visible abdominal sternite of male (B) and of 

 female (C) of Cliryso'bothris azurea. 



Female. — Broadly elongate, rather strongly depressed above, strongly shining, 

 uniformly purplish blue above and beneath. 



Head purplish blue, without a distinct, smooth, longitudinal carina on occiput; 

 front nearly flat ; surface coarsely, deeply, irregularly, confluently punctate, 

 clothed with a few short, inconspicuous hairs; clypeus broadly, rather deeply, 

 triangularly emarginate in front, subtruncate on each side. Antenna greenish, 

 slightly narrowed to apex ; intermediate segments compact, subtriangular, 

 slightly wider than long, broadly rounded at outer margins ; third segment as 

 long as following three segments united. 



Pronotum two-thirds wider than long, slightly wider at base than at apex, 

 widest near base; sides arcuately converging at apical and posterior angles, 

 parallel and distinctly sinuate at middle; anterior margin slightly, arcuately 

 emarginate, without a distinct median lobe; base broadly, arcuately. emarginate 

 on each side, the median lobe strongly produced and. broadly rounded ; disk mod- 

 erately convex, without depressions or callosities; surface coarsely, densely, 

 deeply punctate, transversely rugose, intervals finely granulose. 



Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum, widest behind middle, one and one-half 

 times as long as wide ; sides rather strongly diverging from humeral angles to 

 behind middle, then arcuately converging to tips, which are separately narrowly 

 rounded ; lateral margins coarsely serrate ; basal depressions broad and deep ; 

 humeral depressions broad and very shallow ; surface glabrous, coarsely, densely, 

 deeply punctate, more or less rugose at sides, intervals indistinctly granulose ; 

 each elytron with sutural and lateral costae represented by vaguely elevated, in- 

 distinct, longitudinal, but not smooth, lines, and with two very slightly depressed 

 discal foveae, one in front of middle, the other at apical third, these foveae 

 uniform in color with rest of surface. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, finely, irregularly punctate, slightly rugose at sides 

 of basal sternites, sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous hairs, without 

 distinct, smooth, lateral callosities, intervals finely granulose ; last visible sternite 

 broadly, shallowly emarginate at apex, emargination transversely sinuate at 

 middle, slightly, longitudinally carinate at middle, without a distinct submarginal 

 ridge, lateral margins not serrate : eighth tergite densely, coarsely, deeply punctate, 

 densely granulose, broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum coarsely, confluently 

 punctate, transversely rugose, sparsely clothed with short, erect, brownish hairs^ 

 without a distinct median lobe. Anterior femur with a large triangular tooth, 

 which is dentate on outer margin. Anterior and middle tibiae slightly arcuate, 

 unarmed at apices : posterior tibia straight. 



Length 7.5 mm., width 3.5 mm. 



Redescribed from the female labeled Type No. 2706 and with an 

 orange disk (which signifies Southern States) in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. This specimen is labeled by 

 LeConte "C. azurea Lee. ultramarina Lap.," and is the specimen from 



