790 



FAMILY XXXIX. BUPRESTIME. 



usually with first and second costse distinct near apex, and with two trans- 

 verse-depressions on each side, the first a little in front of middle, second 

 one-third from apex, the basal depression rather feeble ; surface coarsely 

 and, on the sides, confluently punctured. Length 7-16 mm. (Fig. 302.) 



Throughout the State ; frequent. May 15-June 28. Mating on 



June 7. Occurs especially on the trunks of white oak, peach and 



apple trees, in the wood of which the larva? bore. The grubs are 



known as the 1 1 flat-headed apple borer, ' ' and often do much damage 



to orchards where the trees are not in healthy condition. 



1501 (4640). Chbysobotheis floricola Gory, Mon. Buprest. Suppl., 1837, 

 179. 



Oblong, subdepressed. Dark bronze, with slight cupreous tinge ; an- 

 tennae bronzed, male, greenish, female. Thorax more than twice as wide 

 as long, sides nearly parallel at middle, narrowed at apex and base; disk 

 with a distinct median chauuel and some irregular depressions near the 

 side ; surface coarsely punctate, less densely at middle. Elytra wider than 

 thorax, usually widest slightly behind the middle, gradually narrowed at 

 apical third, margin serrulate, tips obtusely rounded; first costa moderately 

 elevated from apex to middle, the others indistinctly defined; basal and 

 humeral depressions not deep, the one behind the middle double; surface 

 densely punctured between the elevations, more sparsely at base. Pro- 

 sternum distinctly lobed in front. Length 8.5-12 mm. 



Posey County; rare. June 11. Occurs from the Middle States 

 to Florida. 



Figs. 303-305. Chrysobothris dentipes. a, head, front view; b, last male ventral segment; c, last female ventral 

 segment; d, front leg of male. (After Packard in Fifth Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm.) 



G. dentipes Germ. (Figs. 303-305), length 10-16 mm., is said to 

 occur throughout the area east of the Mississippi River, but has 

 not yet been noted from Indiana. 



1502 (10,077). Chrysobothris blanchardi Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 

 XIII, 1886, 93. 



Moderately elongate, depressed. Dark bronze, shiniug ; antennae of male 

 greenish, of female bronzed, third joint- as long as the next two. Clypeus 



