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Gory (not Say). The proposal of the new name lecontei by Leng 

 (1920) for azurea Lee. (1859), which he considered preoccupied by 

 azfurea Lee. (1857) , seems to be the unnecessary result of reliance upon 

 the erroneous synoirymy by Horn (1886), which is as follows: 



Dr. LeConte recognizing the erroneous identification [of ultramarina- Castelnau 

 and Gory] proposed the name azurea, for it (Proc. Acad. 1857, p. 8) and in his 

 Revision of the Buprestidae (Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. XI, 1859, p. 238) the 

 name concinnula Lee. is substituted, and azurea used for another species. 



This statement is incorrect, as is also his placing of ultramarina 

 Castelnau and Gory (not Say) as a synonym of scitula Gory. 



(101) Chrysobotheis sexsignata (Say) 



(Fig. 96; fig. 125, D) 



Buprestis quadrimaculata Melsheimer, 1806, Cat. of Insects of Pennsylvania, p. 

 45. (No description.) 



Buprestis sexguttata Say, 1823, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Jour. 3: 161. (Name 

 preoccupied. ) 



Buprestis sexsignata Say, 1836, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 6: 158. (New 

 name for sexsignata Say 1823, not Herbst 1801.) 



Chrysobothris sexsignata Melsheimer, 1853, Cat. Coleopt. U. S., p. 64; LeConte, 

 1859. Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 11: 237-238; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. 

 Soc. Trans. 13: 109, 112, pi. 7, figs. 212-216; Chittenden, 1889, Ent. Amer. 

 5 : 219 ; Packard, 1890, U. S. Ent. Comn. Rpt. 5 : 485, 520, fig. 174 ; Blatchley, 

 1910, Coleoptera of Indiana, pp. 789, 791, fig. 306; Knull, 1920. Ent. News 

 31: 6; 1922, Canad. Ent. 54: 82; 1925, Ohio State Univ. Studies 2 (2) : 28, 

 33-34 ; Chamberlin. 1926, Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., pp. 171-172 : Leonard, 

 1928. N. Y. (Cornell) Agr. Expt. Sta. Mem. 101: 359-360; Barrett, 1932, 

 Calif. Univ. Pubs., Ent. 5 (15): 286; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.), 

 Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, pp. 651-652 ; Brimley, 1938, Insects of North Carolina, 

 p. 172; Procter, 1938, Biol. Survey Mt. Desert Island (Insect Fauna), p. 123. 



ChrysobotJwis ignipes Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, Chryso- 

 bothris, pp. 50-51, pi. 9, fig. 68 ; LeConte, 1873, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 

 [25] : 332. 



Chryso'botliris germari Castelnau and Gory, 1837, Monog. Buprestides, v. 2, 

 Chrysobothris, p. 50, pi. 9, fig. 67 ; LeConte, 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 96. — Clypeus (A), and last visible abdominal sternite of male (B) and 

 of female (C) of Chrysobothris sexsignata, 



