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Male. — Differing from the female in having the last visible abdominal sternite 

 broadly, rather deeply, arcuately emarginate at apex, and the anterior tibia 

 armed with a narrow, elongate dilation at apex. 



Type locality. — San Jose del Cabo, Lower California; type in the 

 California Academy of Sciences. 



DISTRIBUTION 



From material examined : 



Lower Caufornia: San Jose del Cabo. Santa Rosa and San Felipe (G. Bever). 

 Triunfo, July 13, 1938 (Michelbacher and Ross). 



Chamberlin (1926) and Obenberger (1934) record this species from 

 Arizona and Texas, but no specimens have been seen by the writer 

 from either of these two States, and these localities may be incorrect. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Yery little variation was observed in the few specimens examined 

 except in color and size. The color on the pronotum varies from 

 purplish brown to bronzy green, and on the elytra from violaceous 

 blue to greenish blue. The length is from 5.5 to 9 mm. 



Horn described this species from a single specimen (which he 

 misidentified as a male) , probably collected by Gustav Eisen. Dr. 

 Linsley has compared the redescription with the type, which proved 

 to be a female. 



(114) Chrysobothris smaragdula Fall 



(Fig. 108) 



Chrysobothris smaragdula Fall, 1907, Canad. Ent. 39: 239-240; Chamberlin, 1926, 

 Cat. Buprestidae North Amer., p. 172; Obenberger, 1934, in Junk (pub.). 

 Coleopt. Cat., pt. 132, p. 652. 



Figure 108. — Clypeus (A), and last visible abdominal sternite of male (B) and of 

 female (C) of Chrysobothris smaragdula. 



Female. — Moderately elongate, rather strongly convex above, moderately shin- 

 ing, bright green, with a faint bluish tinge; beneath dark bluish green, with a 

 faint violaceous reflection, and more strongly shining than above. 



