Chrysina aurigans

Chrysina aurigans (Rothschild & Jordan, 1894) Original combination. Plusiotis aurigans Rothschild & Jordan, 1894. Material studied. Seven specimens. “ At / light [p] // N.W. COSTA RICA: / Guanacaste Prov., / Estac. Pitilla 700 m., / 9km. S. Santa Cecilia. / v.vi. vii. 1989. BM (NH) [p] // Brit. Mus. (N.H.). / 1989-210. [p] // Plusiotis / aurigans / R + J. / det. / D.C. Hawks 1999 [h & p] // 1 [h] // NHMUK 014589511 [p]”; “At / light [p] // N.W. COSTA RICA: / Guanacaste Prov., / Estac. Pitilla 700 m., / 9km. S. Santa Cecilia. / v.vi. vii. 1989. BM (NH) [p] // Brit. Mus. (N.H.). / 1989-210. [p] // 3 [h] // NHMUK 014589512 [p]”; “At / light [p] // 2 [h] // Brit. Mus. (N.H.). / 1989-210. [p] // N.W. COSTA RICA: / Guanacaste Prov., / Estac. Pitilla 700 m., / 9km. S. Santa Cecilia. / v.vi. vii. 1989. BM (NH) [p] // NHMUK 014589513 [p]”; “Costa Rica: Cartago / Moravia, E. of Heda. / Grano de Oro / March 1997 [h] // Plusiotis / aurigans / R + J / det. / D.C. Hawks 1997 [h & p] // 7 [h] // NHMUK 014589514 [p]”; “N.W. COSTA RICA: / Guanacaste Prov., / Estac. Pitilla 700 m., / 9km. S. Santa Cecilia. / v.vi. vii. 1989. BM (NH) [p] // At / light [p] // 6 [h] // Brit. Mus. (N.H.). / 1989-210. [p] // NHMUK 014589515 [p]”; “At / light [p] // N.W. COSTA RICA: / Guanacaste Prov., / Estac. Pitilla 700 m., / 9km. S. Santa Cecilia. / v.vi. vii. 1989. BM (NH) [p] // Brit. Mus. (N.H.). / 1989-210. [p] // 7 [h] // NHMUK 014560490 [p]”. Distribution. COSTA RICA (7): Guanacaste, San José. Remarks. Specimen with the unique NHMUK number “014560490” is currently in a display case at the Coleoptera Section of the Natural History Museum. A further specimen is on loan to a permanent exhibition about the life and work of Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868–1937) at the Natural History Museum at Tring. This specimen, part of the same series as the others, has severely faded in less than a decade.