TWO NEW CALIFORNIA ACMAEODERA (Coleoptera — Buprestidae) By Mont A. Cazier University of California AcMAEODERA ADENOSTOMAE Cazier, Ncw Specics Small, narrow, convex ; shining black above, cupreous be-neath. Female : Head shallowly punctate, punctures separated by about one-sixth of their own widths on vertex, confluent ante-riorly, vertex with narrow shallow impression, front rather densely clothed with long brown hair ; clypeus with anterior mar-gin rather deeply emarginate, separated from front by promi-nent impression; antennae extending beyond base of pronoturri, segments two and three equal, four slightly longer than two, five wider than four, six wider than five and subequal to succeeding segments. Pronotum as wide as base of elytra, one-third wider than long, apical margin emarginate, base truncate, sides nearly straight, obtusely tapering anteriorly ; discal punctures separated by about their own widths, confluent laterally, oblique lateral im-pression shallow, ending in a prominent fovea ; surface immacu-late, rather densely clothed with long brown hair. Elytra convex, sides straight to apical third, then obtusely rounded to apex, side margins serrate ; striae well marked on disc, shallow impression at base, humeral umbone prominent, surface moderately clothed with long brown hair ; three straw-yellow fascia interrupted at middle, humeral fascia broken into large median spot and small marginal spot, middle fascia not reaching suture, slightly ob-lique basally, apical fascia transverse, interrupted before suture, marginal half red, inner half straw-yellow, two subapical spots situated medially. Beneath sparsely punctate, punctures sepa-rated by twice their own widths, thoracic sternites moderately clothed with long white hair, abdomen sparsely clothed ; pro-sternum sinuate, prominent on either side of middle ; last ven-tral segment with rather prominent pointed sub-marginal carina. Length 7.5 mm., width 2.5 mm. Male : Same as female except for its smaller size. Holotype female and allotype male in the author's collec-tion, collected at Sunset Valley, Santa Barbara County, Cali-fornia, July 14, 1938 by the author on Adenostoma fasciculatum. Specimens from additional California localities are as follows: Sunset Valley, Santa Barbara Countv. July 4, 1937 and July 4, 1938 (B. E. White, V. L. Woolley) ; Pasadena, Los Angeles 137
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