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sachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, 

 North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, 

 and West Virginia, 



The species has also been recorded in the literature from Quebec, 

 Canada, and from Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, and 

 Rhode • Island, but there is some doubt about the record from 

 Arizona. 



Hosts. — This species is recorded in the literature as breeding in 

 southern cypress (Taxodium distlchum (Linnaeus) Richard), pitch 

 pine (Pinus rigida Miller), tamarack {Larix laricina (DuRoi) 

 Koch), hickory [Hicoria sp.), butternut (Juglans cinerea Linnaeus), 

 black walnut (Juglans nigra Linnaeus), chestnut (Castanea dentata 

 (Marshall) Borkhausen) , hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (Linnaeus) 

 Carriere), beech (Fagus sp.), yellow birch (Betula lutea Michaux), 

 red maple {Acer riibrum Linnaeus), black ash (Fraxinus nigra Mar- 

 shall), white ash (Fraotinus americana Linnaeus), white oak (Quer- 

 ents alha Linnaeus), post oak (Quercus stellata Wangenheim), and 

 swamp white oak (Quercus hicolor Willdenow). 



The color of the foveae on the elytra varies from golden green to 

 purplish cupreous, and sometimes is nearly the same color as the 

 rest of the surface. Usually the abdomen is bright green at the 

 middle, but rarely the entire surface is more or less brownish 

 cupreous. The apex of the last visible abdominal sternite in the 

 female is usually triangularly emarginate, but in a few of the speci- 

 mens examined it was more or less truncate. In nearly all the speci- 

 mens the sides of the pronotum converge from near the apical angles 

 to the posterior angles, but occasionally a specimen is found with the 

 sides sinuate and parallel at the middle, The prosternum is usually 

 truncate in front, but occasionally there are indications of a median 

 lobe. The length is from 6.5 to 12.5 mm. 



Say (1823) writes that "we found this species during our ex- 

 pedition to the Missouri, and it is also an inhabitant of the Atlantic 

 States." Specimens examined from the Missouri region do not agree 

 with the description given by Say as well as the specimen from 

 which the above redescription is made, and since the type of 

 sexisignata is supposed to be lost, I am designating that specimen 

 as the neotype. 



LeConte (1873). after examining the types of Castlenau and Gory 

 in the Count Mniszech collection in Paris, writes that ignipes is a 

 synonym of sexsignata, and that germari seems to be a variety of 

 solieri, which does not occur in the United States, but all the later 

 writers consider germari as a synonym of sexsignata. 



(102) Chrysobothkis coxcinnula LeConte 

 (Fig. 96; fig. 125, E) 



Chrysobothris concvnnula LeConte, 1859. Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n. s.) 

 11: 238-239; Bland. 1864, Ent. Soc. Phila. Proc. 3; 197; Gemminger 

 and Harold, 1869, Cat. Coleopt, v. 5, p. 1424; Saunders, 1871, Cat. Bupres- 

 tidarium, p. 96. 



Chrysobothris scitula Hubbard and Schwarz 1878 (not Gory; misidentifica- 

 tion), Amer. Phil. Soc. Proc. 17: 656; Horn, 1886, Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 

 13: 109, 115-116; Horn. 18S6. Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 13: 109, 115-116, 



