A Kl^: VISION OF THE WEST INDIAN COLEOPTERA OF 
THE FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 
By Warken S. Fisher 
Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 
INTRODUCTION 
The present paper is the results of a study of the material of this 
family from the West Indies found in the collection of the United 
I States National Museum, together with such material as could be 
' borrowed from other sources. Specimens have been received at 
various times for identification, but since the material in the col- 
I lection was mostly imidentified, the descriptions widely scattered, 
and the species of the family from that region having never been 
treated in a synoptical way, it seemed advisable to bring together as 
much material from other sources as possible, so that the subject 
could be treated in a more exhaustive manner, which would facili- 
tate the identification of material by future students. 
Three-fourths of the number of species of Buprestidae hitherto 
known to inhabit the West Indies have been studied by the writer 
in the preparation of this paper, the 21 species not seen by him, so 
for as known, are represented mostly by unique types which were 
not available for study. The adults of this family, although abund- 
ant in nature, are so agile that their capture by collectors are not 
frequent and the fauna here treated appears to have been greatly 
neglected, but by assembling material from a number of Museums 
and private collections, a fairly good representation has been 
brought together, so that in addition to the 80 species previously 
known, one new genus, and 26 more species are described as new. 
The Buprestidae of the West Indies have been treated by a number 
of authors in a general way. Jacquelin Duval was the first of these 
authors to consider this family from that region ^ (published in 
French and reissued the same year in a Spanish edition), and records 
five genera and 12 species, 4 of which are described as new. Auguste 
» Ramon de la Sagra's Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de I'ile de Cuba, 1857, 
pp. 56-65. 
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Chevrolat in his Coleopteres de I'ile de Cuba - records 16 genera 
and 30 species from material in the collections of Gvmdlach, 
Poey, and Chevrolat, of which 11 are described as new. Dr. A. 
Stahl ^ lists two species, one each of the genus Buprestis and Chryso- 
hothins from Porto Rico. Ed. Fleutiaux and A. Salle published a 
List des Coleopteres de la (Tuadeloupe * in which they record 9 genera 
and 14 species from Guadeloupe, one of which is described as new. 
Dr. Juan Gundlach ^ records the same number of genera and species 
from Cuba as Chevrolat, without describing any new species, but 
giving more definite localities for the species. The same author, in 
La Fauna Puerto Eiquena,® lists 2 genera and 4 species from Porto 
Rico. Charles W. Leng and Andrew Mutchler, in A Preliminary 
List of the Coleoptera of the West Indies as Recoided to January 
1, 1914,^ list 24 genera and 66 species from that region, which are 
decreased by synonymy in their supplement to the above paper* 
to 64 species. 
In the present paper are included 29 genera and 107 species. 
The term West Indies as used in the present paper includes the 
islands lying in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico and may be 
divided into four groups. First the Bahamas, which consist of about 
700 small islands, composed mostly of low lying heaps of calcareous 
shell and coral debris deposited on a submarine plateau of vast 
area, forming a submerged link with the mainland of Florida; second 
the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, 
and the Virgin Islands, of these Haiti is the c enter and summit of the 
Antillean Range, and from Mount Tina, which is 10,000 feet above 
the sea level, the Antilles slope gently down to western Cuba and 
Jamaica, and to the Virgin Islands on the east; third the Lesser 
Antilles, consisting of a large number of small islands lying in two 
rows, an outer row of limestone and coral inlets and an inner row of 
volcanic formation; and fourth a number of islands lying along 
the northern coast of South America, of which Trinidad and Tobago 
are the most important, and which in a remote period were severed 
from the continent by the wearing of the equatorial currents. These 
islands, with the exception of those along the northern coast of South 
America, are supposed to be of more recent formation than the 
portions of the adjacent continents. The Greater Antilles during 
the Tertiary period are supposed to have been a series of active vol- 
^ Ann. Soc. Ent. Prance, set. 4, vol. 7, 1867, pp. 571-616. 
« Fauna de Puerto Rico, 1882, p. 171. 
* Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, 1889 (published In 1890), pp. 425-484. 
* Contribucion & la Entomologia Cubana, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891. (Issued in sheets with thf 
Anales R. Acad. Cien Havana.) 
3 Ann. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., ser. 1, vol. 2-1, 1894, p. 623. 
' Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 33, 1914, pp. 429-431. 
* Idem, vol. 37, 1917. p. 20.5. 
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canoes, attaining a considerably higher elevation than at present and 
forming a single large island. 
The climate of these islands varies according to the elevation, 
latitude, and to some extent by the degree to which they are exposed 
to the influence of the trade winds and warm ocean currents, but as 
a rule it is purely tropical. These conditions offer a bewildering 
variety of tropical fauna, but whose distribution is by no means 
uniform. The low lying Bahamas provide little support for vege- 
tation and some are almost barren. 
Researches by Charles Simpson ^ and those of John Small ^°' " 
have shown a close affinity between tlie fauna of the extreme southern 
part of Florida, the Florida Keys, and some of the Antilles, just as 
the fauna of the islands along the northern coast of South America 
is allied to that of the coast with which they were, once connected. 
In the Greater Antilles the forests are tropical, in some parts con- 
sisting of various species of palms, mahogany, tree ferns, and various 
trees furnishing edible fruits, while on the upper slopes the fauna 
becomes more characteristic of the temperate zone, and up to an 
elevation of 4,000 feet are often clothed with pines ; farther up, with 
increased precipitation, rank growth of deciduous trees appear, while 
the summits are thickly overgrown with ferns. 
Since the species are more or less limited in their distribution to 
certain islands, and on account of the great variety of plants and 
variation in the temperature, the family Buprestidae from this region 
should be exceedingly rich in species. Very little collecting has been 
done, especially in the mountainous sections, where are to be expected 
a number of new forms. This is especially true of the smaller species, 
which are mostly leaf and twig miners, and since these forms have 
been practically neglected by collectors, the nmnber of species will 
be largely increased by careful collecting. 
As the descriptions of the species are widely scattered throughout 
various publications, some of which are not available to most stu- 
dents, each species is herein redescribed from specimens which are 
as nearly typical as is possible for the writer to determine from the 
descriptions. Where specimens of a species are not available for 
study, a translation of the original description is given. 
No attempt has been made to give a complete bibliography; only 
the more important papers and those which apply to the region cov- 
ered by the present paper have been cited. References to the species 
listed in the Leng and Mutchler Catalogue, which has been of the 
greatest aid to the writer, have not been cited under the species. The 
collector's name, when known, is given in parenthesis after the local- 
» Lower Florida Wilds. 1920. 
1" Flora of Miami. Florida, 1913. 
" Journ. New York Botanictxl Garden, 1916, 1917, and 1018. 
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ity record, and the collections in which the various species are 
located are also indicated. . 
The writer greatly appreciates the loan of material during his ] 
study of this family and wishes to thank the following entomologists 
for their assistance: Nathan Banks, Museum of Comparative Zool- 
ogy, Cambridge, Mass., for a collection made by Dr. W. M. Mann in 
Haiti ; Dr. Henry Skinner, for a collection from the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, containing the Poey collection 
from Cuba ; Dr. W. J. Holland, for material from his private collec- 
tion, as well as for the loan of material from the Carnegie Museum 
of Pittsburgh, collected on the Isle of Pines and Jamaica; Prof. 
H. F. Wickham, University of Iowa, for material from the Bahamas 
and Haiti; and George N, Wolcott, of the Insular Experiment 
Station, Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, for material collected in Porto 
Rico. G. B. Merrill, Gainesville, Florida; E. G. Smyth, Bureau ! 
of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture; and 
Frank B. Mason, Philadelphia, have also furnished valuable addi- 
tions to the material studied. Stephen C. Bruner, chief of the ! 
Department of Entomology and Vegetable Pathology, Estacion Ex- j 
perimental agronomica, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, has sent an j 
interesting collection taken in Cuba, and has also examined the I 
material in the Gundlach Museum at Habana and furnished the 
writer with a list of the species contained in that collection. The 
writer is under great obligations to Dr. F. E. Lutz and A. J, 
Mutchler for the loan of a valuable collection from the American 
Museum of Natural History, including collections made by the ex- 
peditions conducted by that museum to the various islands in the 
West Indies, and also those made by the New York Academy of Sci- 
ences in conjunction with the museum, as well as other material col- 
lected by private individuals and sent to that museum for identifica- 
tion. I am especially indebted to Dr. Charles J. Gahan for the 
loan of material from the British Museum. This collection con- 
tained many species which had been compared with the types of 
Thompson, Gory, Chevrolat, etc., by the late Charles O. Waterhouse, 
and has been of the greatest help in my studies. 
The writer desires to express his deep appreciation and sincere 
gratitude to Dr. E. A. Schwarz, of the United States National 
Museum, for the many helpful suggestions during the course of the 
work, for his kind and valuable criticism, and for aiding generally 
in every possible way in the preparation of this paper. 
CLASSIFICATION 
The family of Coleoptera treated in the present paper has been 
a great favorite with collectors on account of the large size and 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN" BUPRESTIDAE EISHEB 5 
splendid color of many of the species which compose it. The species 
are generally elongate and more or less cylindrical, although soone 
H are very robust and appear ungraceful in form, but this is compen- 
I sated by the incomparable richness of their colors and markings, 
and for this reason they have been named " Eichards " by some of 
the older authors. The larvae are variable in form, and live in both 
living and dead plants, and the adults are found feeding on the 
flowers and foliage of various plants, or sunning themselves on the 
trunks of trees during the warmer part of the day. 
The genera as defined in the following paper may be tabulated 
as follows: 
KEY TO THE GENEKA 
1. Sternal cavity formed entirely by the mesosterniim (tribe Polycestini)_ 2. 
Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternnm and metasternum, or entirely 
by the metasternum 3. 
2. Scutellum visible; tarsal claws simple Polycesta Solier. 
Scutellum invisible ; tarsal claws dentate Acmaeodera Eschscholtz. 
3. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternnm and metasternum ; lateral 
branches of the metasternum elongate 4. 
Sternal cavity formed nearly or entirely by the metasternum lateral 
branches of the metasternum very short and compressed on the sides 
or invisible 22. 
4. Antennal pores diffused upon both sides of the serrate joints (tribe Chal- 
cophorini) 5. 
Antennal pores concentrated in a pit on the serrate joints 11. 
5. First joint of posterior tarsi short, only a little longer than the second 
joint 0. 
First joint of posterior tarsi long, as long, or nearly as long as the fol- 
lowing two joints united 7. 
6. Prosternal process longitudinally grooved Psiloptera Solier. 
Prosternal process not longitudinally grooved Euchroma Solier. 
7. Tarsi more or less depressed 8. 
Tarsi laterally compressed Pelecopselaphus Solier. 
8. Pronotum with a longitudinal median groove or carina 9. 
Pronotum without a logitudinal median groove or carina. 
Chrysesthes Solier. 
9. Hind margin of posterior coxae strongly dentate between two emargiua- 
tions Hilarotes Thomson. 
Hind margin of posterior coxae normal, not dentate 10. 
10. Prosternal process longitudinally grooved Chalcophora Solier. 
Prosternal process not longitudinally grooved- Halecia Castelnau and Gory. 
11. Front of head narrowed by the insertion of the antennae (tribe Chryso- 
bothrini ) 12. 
Front of head not narrowed by the insertion of the antennae (tribe Bupres- 
tini) 13. 
12. Third tarsal joint armed with two long spines Actenodes Lacordaire. 
Thiixl tarsal joint unarmed Chrysobothris Eschscholtz. 
13. Metasternal epimeron entirely uncovered 14. 
Metasternal epimeron partially concealed by the lateral prolongation of 
the abdomen 19. 
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14. Eyes ublit{ue and distiuctly converging above 15. 
Eyes parallel or only feebly converging above 17. 
15. First joint of posterior tarsi longer than the second 16. 
First joint of posterior tarsi not longer than the second. 
Dicerca Eschscholtz. 
16. Pronotum wider in front than behind ; body subcylindrical. 
Paracinyra Fisher. 
Pronotum narrower in front than behind ; body not subcylindrical. 
Cinyra Castelnau and Gory. 
17. Pronotum with three more or less deep depressions at the base 18. 
Pronotum without three depressions at base, sometimes longitudinally sul- 
cate at the middle Buprestis Linnaeus 
18. Pronotum wider in front than behind Mixoclilorus Waterhouse, 
Pronotum narrower in front than behind Peronaemis Waterhouse. 
19. Antennal cavities concealed by a transversely oblique carina. 
Aglaostola Thomson. 
Antennal cavities small, rounded, and not concealed by a carina 20. 
20. Pronotum distinctly sinuate at base 21. 
Pronotum truncate or only feebly sinuate at base Anthaxia Eschscholtz. 
21. Elytra long, covering the abdomen Melanophila Eschscholtz. 
Elytra short, not covering the abdomen Tetragonoschenia Thomson. 
22. Sternal cavity formed almost entirely by the metasternum ; base of pro- 
notum more or less sinuate (tribe Agrilini) 23. 
Sternal cavity formed entirely by the metasternum ; base of pronotum trun- 
cate (tribe Mastogenini) 28. 
23. Middle coxae more widely separated than the anterior ones 24. 
Middle coxae not more widely separated than the anterior ones 27. 
24. Antennae lodged in a distinct deep groove in the prosternum 25. 
Antennae free in repose, not lodged in a groove in the prosternum. 
Trachys Fabricius, 
25. Prosternal process deeply longitudinally grooved ; legs lodged in depres- 
sions beneath Brachys Solier. 
Prosternal process not longitudinally grooved; legs free 26. 
26. Prosternal process strongly constricted by the anterior coxal eavities; ag- 
riliform Taphrocerus Solier. 
Prosternal process not constricted by the anterior coxal cavities; form ob- 
long or oval Leiopleura H. DeyroUe. 
27. Femora serrate on inner margin Paradomorphus Waterhouse. 
Femora not serrate on inner margin Agrilus Curtis. 
28. Eyes parallel Micrasta Kerremans. 
Eyes feebly oblique, slightly converging behind Mastogenius Solier. 
Genus POLYCESTA Solier 
Polycesta Solieb, Ann, Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 281-282, pi. 
11, fig. 11. — Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, pp. 1-6, 
pi. 1. — L-\coi!DAiBE, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 62-63.— Kerremans, 
Wytsnian's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 1. 1902, pp. 25-26 ; Mon. Bupr., 
vol. 1, lIHKi, pp. 469-522, pis. 9-10. 
Nemaphorus Solier. Gay's Hist. Nat. Chile, Zool., vol. 4, 1851, pp. 490-491. 
Head flat ; epistoma very short, and sinuate or truncate in front ; 
antennal cavities small, rounded, entirely closed in front, and sur- 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 7 
rounded posteriorly by an elevated carina. Antennae rather long, 
first joint moderately clavate at apex, second obconical, third 
elongate and subcylindrical, fourth elongate and feebly clavate, 
fifth to eleventh more or less serrate and each joint armed with a 
terminal poriferous fovea, the joints becoming gradually shorter 
from the fifth to eleventh joint, the latter somewhat rounded at the 
apex. Eyes moderately large, narrowly elongate, elliptical, feebly 
convex, and slightly converging above. Pronotum strongly trans- 
verse, more or less angulated on the sides ; base bisinuate and fitting 
(jlosely to the elytra ; surface often concave or longitudinally sulcate 
at the middle. Scutellum small and variable in shape. Elytra 
variable, short or moderately long, the sides usually sinuate in front, 
attenuate posteriorly, with the sides more or less serrate toward the 
apex. Sternal cavity formed entirely by the mesosternum, which is 
deeply emarginate in front, the lateral branches broad and diverg- 
ing. Prosternum wide, flat or feebly convex, the anterior margin 
sinuate or feebly lobed on each side. Posterior coxae narrow and 
feebly dilated internally, the anterior margin transverse and rather 
strongly sinuate; posterior margin strongly, broadly arcuately emar- 
ginate. Abdomen with the suture between the first and second seg- 
ments sinuate and not parallel with the other segments. Legs 
moderately long; femora subfusiform and flattened; tibiae cylin- 
drical; tarsi compressed and feebly developed, first joint moderately 
elongate, second and third triangular and about equal in length, 
fourth wider, more elongate, and strongly triangular, fifth elongate 
and obconical; tarsal claws simple. Body robust, oblong, more or 
less elongate, and attenuate in front and behind. 
This genus contains about 30 described species, which are all found 
in the Neotropical region, with the exception of one species from 
China and four from Africa. This paper includes 13 species, one 
of which is described as new, all having been recorded from the 
West Indies. 
The species of the genus resemble each other very closely, and 
considerable confusion has been caused by the erroneous identifica- 
tions of some of the older species by various authors. The species 
are not very well represented in collections, and until more speci- 
mens from exact localities are available for study, much doubt must 
still be attached to the names of several species. 
My studies of this genus has been made possible through the kind- 
ness of Dr. C. J. Gahan, of the British Museum, in loaning me a 
series of species, a number of which had been compared with the 
types of Linnaeus, Thomson, Gory, etc., by the late C. O. Waterhouse. 
45554— 25— Proc.N.M.vol.GS 12 
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KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Elytra with longitudinal costae between the rows of coarse punctures — 2 
Elytra without longitudinal costae, but with rows of fine punctures; color 
shining cyaneo-viridis, with purple reflections. (Jamaica) 
cyanipes (Fabricius). 
2. Pronotum with two large opaque impunctate spots on the disk. (Cuba) 
cubae Chevrolat. 
Pronotum without opaque impunctate spots 3 
3. Elyti'a with distinct scutellar costae, more or less abbreviated between the 
suture and first discal costa 4. 
Elytra without, or with only feebly indicated scutellar costae 9. 
4. Each elytron with four or five distinct smooth longitudinal costae, not 
including the scutellar one 5. 
Each elytron with two or three distinct smooth longitudinal costae, not 
including the scutellar one 8. 
5. Elytral costae more distinctly elevated than the intermediate reliefs. (Ba- 
hamas, Cuba) goryi Saunders. 
Elytral costae hardly more distinctly elevated than the intermediate reliefs; 
the costae and reliefs nearly equally distinct 6. 
6. Elytra black, sometimes with a bluish or purplish tinge 7. 
Elytra rusty brown, with the lateral margins and costae black. (Santo Do- 
mingo or Dominica) regularis Waterhouse. 
7. Elytra black, the punctures subelongate and rather irregularly placed. 
(Cuba) chevrolati Thomson. 
Elytra black, with a bluish or purplish tinge, the punctures subrectangular 
and more regularly placed. (Jamaica) perfecta Kerremans, 
8. Pronotum angulated on the sides, feebly impressed at middle and with the 
posterior angles fitting closely to the elytra; above green, the elytra fer- 
rugineous, with a greenish or aeneous tinge along suture ; beneath cyaneo- 
viridis. (Jamaica) gossei Waterhouse. 
Pronotum broadly rounded on the sides, with a large deep median depression, 
and the posterior angles widely separated from the elytra ; above black 
with a cupreous tinge, the elytra ferrugineous with an aeneous tinge along 
suture; beneath aeneo-purpureous. (Bahamas) manni Fisher. 
9 Elytra with the scutellar costae feebly indicated 10. 
Elytra with the scutellar costae entirely absent 11. 
10. Form broad and robust, about two and one-fifth times as long as wide ; pros- 
ternum coarsely, sparsely punctured. (Santo Domingo.) 
porcata (Fabricius). 
Form more narrow and elongate, about two and two-thirds times as long as 
wide; presternum finely and densely punctured. (Cuba.) 
angulosa Jacquelin Duval. 
11. Elytral costae more distinctly elevated than the intermediate reliefs — 12. 
Elytral costae hardly more distinctly elevated than the intermediate reliefs, 
the costae and reliefs almost equally distinct. (Jamaica.) 
olivieri Waterhouse. 
12. Form broad and robust, about two and one-fifth times as long as wide; 
elytral punctures very coarse and deep. (Santa Lucia. Guadeloupe.) 
depressa (Linnaeus). 
Form more narrow and elongate, about two and two-thirds times as long as 
wide; elytral punctures finer. (St. Thomas) thomae Chevrolat. 
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POLYCESTA CYANIPES (Fabricins) 
Ituprestis ciiampes Fabricius, Mant. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 178 
Paliicei<t(i cymitpefi Wateuhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, 
1904, p. 254.— Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 474r-475, pi. 9, 
fig. 5. 
Poljjcestd rcsplendcns Thomson, Typ. Bupr., 1878, p. 45. 
Polycesta jamaicensis White MSS. 
Female. — Oblong, broadly rounded in front, slightly more atten- 
uate posteriorly and feebly convex above; color above green, some- 
times the sides and suture aenco-cupreous, and usually with a strong 
violaceous tinge when viewed in certain lights; beneath of the same 
color as above. 
Head flat, with an obsolete depression on the front and a feeble, 
narroAv longitudinal groove on the occiput ; surface somewhat rugose, 
coai-sely, deeply, and rather densely punctate, the punctures variable 
in size and irregularly placed, forming irregular, broadly rounded 
intervals on the front, which are smooth, shining, and glabrous; 
epistoma truncate or obsoletely arcuately emarginate in front. Pro- 
notum strongly transverse, nearly two times as wide as long, dis- 
tinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at the middle; sides 
obliquely arcuately expanded to the middle, where they are broadly 
rounded to the basal fifth, then parallel to the posterior angles, which 
are rectangular (in some specimens the sides are obliquely attenuate 
from the middle to the posterior angles) ; anterior margin deeply 
arcuately emarginate, with a distinct, broadly rounded median lobe ; 
base truncate or feebly bisinuate; disk feebly flattened, with a broad 
obsolete depression extending over the entire median part, the de- 
pression very shallow and with a feeble longitudinal median sulcus, 
which is more deeply impressed on the basal half; surface declivous 
on the sides toward apical angles and with a narrow groove along 
the anterior margin, and sometimes with an obsolete one along the 
base, coarsely, rather densely, but not deeply punctate, the punc- 
tures finer and more remotely separated on the disk, but becoming 
deeper, coarser, and somewhat confluent at the sides, the intervals 
smooth and glabrous. Scutellum quadrate or oblong, and slightly 
wider behind than in front. Elytra feebly flattened above, declivous 
at the sides, and equal in width to the pronotum at base; humeral 
angles rectangular; sides nearly parallel to the apical third, then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded; 
lateral margins strongly and coarsely serrate near apex; surface 
without distinct costae, but with punctured striae, which are feebly 
impressed, with the punctures fine and irregularly placed; intervals 
smooth, irregular in width, obsoletely rugose posteriorly, and with 
a few obsolete punctures; sutural margins elevated posteriorly; hu- 
meri obsoletely developed. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather densely, 
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and irregularly punctate, the punctures variable in size, open poste- 
riorly, and from tiie middle of each arises a short recumbent hair, tlie 
intervals finely and densely granulose: first segment abruptly convex 
at middle ; last segmerrt rather acutely rounded at apex. Prosternum 
strongly convex, the surface, coarsely and irregularly punctate, 
sparsely clothed with a few short semi-erect hairs and the intervals 
finely and obsoletely granulose; anterior margin with a broadly 
rounded median lobe, which is feebly arcuatel}' emarginate in front ; 
prosternal process short, broad, and with a short marginal groove 
on each side, the sides nearly parallel to the middle of the anterior 
coxal cavities, where they are emarginate and abruptly narrowed to 
near the apex, which is very broadly rounded. 
Male. — Not seen. 
Length, 17-25 mm. ; width, 5.5-8 mm. 
This species was originally described by Fabricius from a speci- 
men from South America in the Hunter collection. Thomson (1878) 
redescribed the same species under the name resplendens from a 
questionable locality, probably Surinam or Brazil. Waterhouse 
(1904) examined the type of this species in the Hunter collection at 
the University of Glasgow, and also the type of resplendens Thom- 
son in Oberthiir's collection, and states that eyanipes Fabricius is 
the same as resplendens Thomson from Jamaica. 
The following material has been examined. Coll. British Mu- 
seum: One specimen labeled simply "Parry, Saunders 74—18"; and 
another example from Bath, Jamaica, Avhich was compared with the 
type by Waterhouse. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.: One specimen 
labeled "Jamaica," without any additional data. Coll. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. : One specimen labeled "Jamaica " (donated by the Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist.). 
This beautiful insect is easily separated from all other species of 
this genus by the elytra not having distinct costae. 
POLYCESTA CUBAE Chevrolat 
Pohjcesta cuhae Chevrolat, Silbermann's Revue Ent., vol. 5, 1838, pp. 
55-56.— -GoKY, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1840, pp. 141-142, pi. 24, fig. 
139. — Jacquelin Duval, In Ramon de la Sagra's HLst. Phys. Polit. et 
Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), p. 62; 
(Spanish Edition), vol. 7, 1857, p. 28. — Chevkolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 582 (separates, p. 158). — Gundlach, 
Contribucion h la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 165, No. 861.— 
Kerkemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 500-501. 
Male. — Elongate, broadly rounded in front, more acuminate be- 
hind, and feebly convex above; above uniformly dark aeneo-cupre- 
ous, with the bottom of the pimctures more reddish-cupreous and in 
fresh specimens usually filled with a whitish pulverulence ; beneath 
cupreous with a slight purplish tinge and more shining than above. 
AST. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 11 
Head nearly flat, without any depressions on the front, but with 
an irre<;ular longitudinal carina on the occiput; surface very 
coarsely, irregularly and densely punctate, the punctures variable in 
size, coarse and irregular in form on the front, but becoming 
smaller and more rounded at the sides and on the occiput, sparsely 
clothed w ith rather long erect hairs, the intervals irregular in shape, 
convex on top, smooth and shining, except on the epistoma where 
they are granulose and subopaque; epistoma obsoletely arcuately 
emarginate in front. Pronotum strongly transverse, two times as 
wide iis long, only slightly narrower in front than behind, and widest 
just behind the middle; sides obliquely expanded from the apical 
jiiigles to just behind the middle, where thej'^ are broadly rounded, 
then more obii(|uely attenuate to the posterior angles, which are 
rather acute and covered by the elytra; anterior margin deeply arcu- 
ately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe; base bisinu- 
ate with the median lobe strongly angulated; disk with a feeble 
median depression, which is more deeply impressed near the scu- 
tellum, and in some specimens feebly longitudinally gi'ooved ; surface 
coarsely and deeply punctate, the punctures denser here and there, 
and becoming coarse and confluent on the sides, more remotely 
placed on the disk, where there are two large triangular opaque 
spaces, which are very sparsely punctate, and separated from each 
other by the median depression, the surface sparsely clothed with a 
few very short, inconspicuous hairs. Scutellum small, oblong, 
slightly wider behind than in front, and strongly convex. Elytra 
feebly convex, slightly wider than pronotum at base ; humeral angles 
obtusely angulated ; sides feebly expanded behind the humeral angles, 
slightly sinuate at the posterior coxae, nearly parallel to apical 
third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly, 
rather acutely rounded, the lateral margins coarsely and irregularly 
serrate posteriorly; each elytron with three slightly elevated costae, 
the scutellar one extending to the basal fourth, and two similar ones 
on the disk, distinctly marked on the basal region, but becoming 
obsolete toward the apex, the intercostae nearly as prominent as the 
costae, irregular in shape, strongly interrupted by the puncture? 
toward the sides, the tops with numerous punctures which are shal- 
low but nearly as wide as the costae, the punctures betw^een the 
costae, very coarse, deep, irregular in size and shape, and more or less 
confluent; humeri feebly developed. Abdomen beneath coarsely, 
densely punctate, and rather densely clothed with moderately long 
recumbent hairs, the intervals obsoletely granulose; first segment 
rather abruptly convex, with a densely punctured and pubescent 
spot at the middle; last segment rather acutely rounded at apex. 
Prosternum moderately convex, transveisely concave at middle, the 
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surface coarsely, rather densely and irregularly punctate, sparsely 
clothed with shoi-t inconspicuous hairs, and the intervals smooth and 
shining; anterior margin with a broad median lobe, Avhich is broadly 
arcuately emarginato in front; prosternal process short, broad, flat 
and without marginal groo\es, the sides nearly parallel to middle 
of anterior coxal ca\ ities, v.here they are emarginate and abruptly 
narrowed toward the apex, Avhich is very broadly rounded. 
Female. — Differs from the male in being larger and more robust, 
the abdomen beneath more sparsely punctured and less pubescent, 
and the first abdominal segment feebly convex and smooth at the 
middle. 
Length, 15-22 mm.; width, 5.5-7.5 nnn. 
This species was described by Chevrolat (1838) from Cuba, and its 
distribution is probably restricted to that island. Jacquelin Duval 
1^1857) simply records it from Cuba, and Chevrolat (1867) states 
that it is found in the eastern and central part of the island, and that 
specimens are in the collections of Gundlach. Poey, and Chevrolat. 
Gundlach (1891) records it from the eastern part of the island. 
The following material has been examined: Coll. British Mus. : 
One male labeled " Cuba (Coll. Chevrolat)" and mnrked type. Coll. 
Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : Male and female collected on the San Carlos 
Estate, Guantanamo, Cuba, June 18, 1916, bv Chas. T. Ramsden. 
Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. : One female labeled (\iba (Poey Coll. 
No. ;)39). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: Male and female collected on the 
San Carlos Estate, Guantanamo, Cuba, June 18, 1916, by Chas. T. 
Kamsden. (Donated by the Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.) There is also 
a single specimen of this species labeled No. 861 in the Gr.ndlach 
Collection in Havana which has not been examined by the writer. 
This species is easily separated from the other species of this genus 
found in the West Indies by the two subopaque spots on the 
pronotum. 
POLYCESTA GORYI Saunders 
I'olpccsta dcprcssa Castelnau and Goky (not Linnaeus). Mon. Bupr.. vol. 
2, 1837, p. 3. pi. 1, fig. 2. (Name preoccup ed. ) 
Polycesta gorpi Saundeks, Catal. Bupr.. 1871, p. HS. — Kkkkemans, Mon. 
Bupi-., vol. 1, 1906 pp. 481-483. 
Polycesta soUeri Thomson, Typ. Bni)r., 1878, p. 44. 
Polyecsta crihrota Thomson, Typ. Bupr.. 1878. pp. 44-45. 
Polycesta velasco Wickuam (not Castelnau and Gory), Canad. Knt., v.)J. 
27, 1895, p. 294. 
Male. — Rather broad, short, moderately convex and broadly 
rounded in front and behind; unifoimly black above and beneatli, 
in some specimens the underside with a feeble brownish tinge. 
Head flat or feebly convex, without any depressions on the front, 
but with a transverse depression between the antennal cavities: 
AUT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 13 
occiput not longitudinally carinate; surface coarsely, deeply and 
densely punctate, the punctures nearly confluent, smaller towaixi the 
sides and forming numerous smooth, vermiculate reliefs, sparsely 
clothed with rather long, fine, erect hairs; epistoma truncate in 
front. Pronotum strongly transverse, nearly two times as wide as 
long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at basal third; 
sides strongly obliquely expanded from apical angles to basal third 
where they are obtusely angulated, then obliquely attenuate to near 
the posterior angles, which terminate into an acute angle and pro- 
jecting beneath the base of the elytra; anterior margin arcuately 
emarginate, with a feebly angulated median lobe ; base rather strong- 
ly bisinuate, with the median lobe broadly angulated in front of the 
scutellum; disk feebly flattened, with a broad, shallow, triangular 
depression at the middle, and sometimes with an obsolete longitudinal 
median carina, the sides are broadly declivous toward the apical 
angles and more narrowly so along the base toward the posterior 
angles ; surface coarsely, deeply and densely punctate, the punctures 
irregular in size, irregularly placed, distinctly on the disk but becom- 
ing more confluent on the antero-lateral areas, the intervals sub- 
opaque and obsoletely granulose, there is also a very short erect obso- 
lete hair in the middle of the punctures. Scutellum very small, sub- 
quadrate, wider behind than in front, strongly convex and shining. 
Elytra feebly convex, slightly wider than pronotum at base ; humeral 
angles broadly rounded; sides feebly expanded behind the humeral 
angles, slightly sinuate at the posterior coxae, nearly parallel to the 
apical third, then broadly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
conjointly broadly rounded, the lateral margins coarsely serrate 
posteriorly ; each elytron with a distinct scutellar costa extending to 
about the basal fourth, and four other strongly elevated costae, first 
and second costae more distinct, enlarged anteriorly and joined to 
the base, the third beginning behind the humeral callosity, and the 
fourth parallel to the lateral margin and separated from it by a 
row of large, irregular transverse punctures, the costae separated 
from each other by two rows of large, deep punctures, which are 
more or less confluent, and with the intercostae not elevated, the 
costae and intercostae with a few remotely placed punctures and 
the sutural and lateral margins rather densely punctate; humeri 
feebly developed. Abdomen beneath rather finely and densely 
punctate, and sparsely clothed with moderately long pale recumbent 
hairs; first segment convex at middle and with a densely punctured 
and pubescent median spot ; last segment declivous toward the apex, 
which is obtusely angulated. Prosternum strongly convex, surface 
coarsely densely punctate, rather densely clothed with long fine erect 
hairs, and the intervals obsoletely granulose ; anterior margin nearly 
truncate, in some specimens with an obsolete lobe on each side; 
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prosternal process short, broad, feebly convex, and without marginal 
grooves, the sides nearly parallel to the middle of the anterior 
coxal cavities, where they are emarginate and abruptlj^ narrowed 
to near the apex, which is very broadly rounded. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the first abdominal 
segment feebly convex and without the denseh^ punctured and 
pubescent median spot. 
Length, 16 mm. ; width, T mm. 
This species was described by Castelnau and Gor\' (1837) from 
Cayenne, Guiana, as depressa, but since this name had been used 
previously by Linnaeus for a species of this genus from South 
America, Saunders (1871) proposed the new name goryi. The 
species has also been described by Thomson (1878) from Colombia 
as solieri^ and the second time in the same paper from Caracas, 
Venezuela under the name of cribrata. Waterhouse has examined 
the types of solieri and cribrata in the Oberthur collection and finds 
that they are identical with the species described by Castelnau and 
Gory as depressa., and later changed by Saunders to goryi. This is 
the species recorded by Prof. H, F. Wickham (1895) from the 
Bahamas as probably velasco Castelnau and Gory. 
The above description was made from a male specimen from 
Venezuela, kindly loaned by the British Museum, and which was 
compared wtih the type of cribrata by Waterhouse, and with which 
it agrees. Leng and Mutchler in their List of the AVest Indian 
Coleoptera^^ record it from the Antilles, and there is a single male 
specimen in the Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., receiA^ed from H. F. Wick- 
ham, labeled "Water Cay, Bahamas" which does not differ from 
the specimen from which the above description was made. In the 
Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., there is a single female labeled " Cuba 
(Poey Coll. No. 347)" which is slightly narrower than the other 
specimens examined. 
This is one of the shortest oblong species found in the AVest 
Indies. It is entirely black above, equally rounded in front and 
behind, and each elytron with five distinct costae, including the 
scutellar one. 
POLYCESTA REGULARIS Waterhouse 
Polycesta regularis Waterhouse, Ann. and Maj:. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 
14, 1904, pp. 256-257.— Kerrem AN s, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 487- 
488. 
The following is a copy of AVaterhouse's original description : 
Oblong, parallel, much flattened, only a little more than twice a.s long as 
broad, nearly black, but with a slight cyaneous tint below. Elytra ferrugi- 
" Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. .S.^, 1914. p. 420. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 15 
nous. Thorax not quite twice as broad as long, black, dull, broadest behind 
the middle, strongly angular at the sides, obliquely narrowed in front and 
behind ; the space from the lateral angle to the base rectilinear. The punctua- 
tion strong and sharp; the punctures in the diseoidal impression (which is 
very shallow and ill defined) moderately large and very slightly separated, 
at the sides they are smaller and crowded together. There are two small 
spaces at the base which have only a few punctures. The elytra are rusty 
brown, the margin and eostae blackish. There are four smooth costae, the 
first abbreviated before the middle, the second and third well marked, the 
fourth fine and abbreviated at the base and apex. The doui)le lines of foveae 
between the suture and second costa and the second and third costae are 
regular and the foveae are subquadrate. The foveae which form the more 
lateral lines are regular, but a little less quadrate. Viewed beneath, the 
lateral ridge of the thorax is very sharp. The whole under side is clothed 
with a fine, gre.v pubescene. The abdomen is verj- distinctly and rather 
closely punctured. There is an oval, brown, pubescent spot on the basal 
segment. Long. 14 mm. EaJ). St. Domingo (or possibly Dominica). 
This species is very close to P. Chevrolati, but is smaller, and the lines 
of punctures on the elytra are very regular. 
A single specimen from an old collection, with the locality indistinctly 
written. 
The type of this species is in the British Museum, and since I 
have heen unable to examine it, the species is given its position in 
the key solely from the characters given in the original description. 
POLYCESTA CHEVROLATI Thomson 
Polycesta chevrolatii Thomson, Typ. Bupr., 1878, pp. 43. — Keeremann, Mon. 
Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 4SS-489. 
The following is a translation of Thomson's original description : 
Polycesta chevrolatii (Guerin Mss.) Thomson. — Habitat: Cuba. 
Length, 21-26 mm. ; width, 81/^-11 mm. Form of P. thomae Chev- 
rolat, but entirely black. Head granulate-punctate. Prothorax with 
the sides strongly dilated behind the middle, feebly depressed at 
middle, with a feeble longitudinal line at the base; surface punctate, 
the punctures coarse and densely placed at the middle and sides. 
Elytra carinate-fossulate, the fossae densely placed and generally 
subelongate; sides toward the apex denticulate, with apex bispinose. 
Body beneath and legs sparsely punctate. 
Allied to P. thomae Chevrolat, but differs from it: first by the 
general appearance (livree) ; second, by the prothorax being straight 
anteriorly and not as strongly punctured ; third, by the fossae on the 
elytra generally elongate, and finally by the underside less densely 
punctured. 
There is a single specimen of this species in the British Museum, 
but it has not been examined by the writer. The species was un- 
known to Kerremans, as he simply quoted Thomson's description in 
his Monographie des Buprestides. 
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POLYCESTA PERFECTA Kerrenians 
Polycesta perfecta Kerkemans, Man. Bupr., vol. 7, 1914, pp. 257-258. 
The following is a translation of Kerreman's original description : 
Length, 24 mm.; width, 9 mm. Elongate, attenuate behind, 
slightly convex, entirely black above, with a very feeble purple re- 
flection on the elytra, turning to blue along the suture; beneath Wnck 
with a slight bronzy tinge, pubescence of a dull reddish color, with 
the tibiae and tarsi bluish, Remarkable for the regularity and dis- 
tinctness of the elytral structure. Head rugous, with irregidar 
vermiculate reliefs. Pronotum wider than long, narrower in the 
front than behind, widest behind the middle ; anterior margin trun- 
cate; sides strongl}' obliquely converging to the front, rounded just 
behind the middle, then sinuate and less converging to the base, 
with the posterior angles small, feebly projecting externally and 
feebly depressed on the humeral angles of the elytra; base bisinuate; 
middle of disk depressed; surface covered with round punctures, 
rather closely and unequally spaced, more unequal and irregular near 
the anterior angles, where the intervals form a network of irregular 
areas. Scutellum small, wider than long. Elytra feebly lobed and 
transversely impressed at the base, nearly parallel on the sides to the 
posterior third, then regularly arcuately attenuate to the tip, Avhich 
is armed with teeth, unequal in length, and densely and irregularly 
placed between the suture and the sixth row of punctures; surface 
covered with rows of coarse, transverse, subrectangular punctures 
arranged in very regular double rows, and separated by smooth, 
feebly costiform lines. Beneath finely and unequall}- j^unctate, the 
punctures much finer and denser along the external margins of the 
abdominal segments; legs slightly robust, femur nearly smooth, the 
punctures fine and widely separated, tibiae a little more coarsely 
and densely punctured. Habitat: Jamaica (Kerreman's Collection). 
No specimens have been seen by the writer which would agree Avith 
the above description, so the species has been placed in the key solely 
upon the characters given in the -original description. 
POLYCESTA GOSSEI Waterhouse 
Polycesta gossei Wateuhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14 
1904, pp. 2.37-25S.— Kekeemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, p. 499. 
The following is a copy of Waterhouse's original description : 
Elongate-oblong, much flattened; green; elytra ferruginous, shaded with 
green at the suture. Thorax at the widest scarcely wider than the elytra, 
only slightly angular at the sides, obliquely narrowed in front, very slightly 
narrowed posteriorly ; green, sliaded with purple-coppei-y at the base. Disk 
lightly impressed ; the punctures rather coarse, very close, and rather confused, 
rather smaller at the sides, with two spots at the base which have only a few 
punctures. Elytra subparallel, with a not very distinct costa near the scutelluni 
extending about a quarter the length of the elytra. There are two other very 
distinct smooth costae. The foveae which form the double lines are very regu- 
lar and somewhat round. Beyond the second complete costa there are four 
rows of regular somewhat round foveae or large punctures. The underside is a 
AET. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 17 
beautiful bluisli green, the legs, parts of the sterna, and margins of the seg- 
ments shaded with purple. Tarsi cyaneous. The abdomen has some fine greyish 
pubescence, and on the basal segment there is a brown velvety spot. Long. 
11 mm. Habitat: Jamaica (Gosse). 
This species is very near P. velasco Laporte and Gory, but that has a rather 
more angulated thorax, etc. It is possible that velasco and montezuma Laporte 
and Gory, may be sexes of the same species, but there is not material at hand 
to enable me to decide. 
The t3^pe of this species is in the collection of the British Museum 
and has not been examined by the writer, but is included in the key 
from the characters given in the original description. 
POLYCESTA MANNI, new species 
Female. — Narrowly elongate, subsylindrical, broadly rounded in 
front, more attenuate behind, and moderately convex above; head 
and pronotum black with the bottom of the punctures and median 
depression on pronotum more or less cupreous; scutellum black; 
elytra ferrugineous with the suture narrowly margined Avith a 
nigro-aeneous color; beneath nigro-aeneous with a slight greenish 
or purplish tinge, and the tarsi cyaneous. 
Head slightly convex without depressions on the front; surface 
coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures not very deep, irregu- 
larly placed, becoming somewhat confluent toward the sides and 
forming a netAvork of irregular shaped reliefs, also sparsely clothed 
with long inconspicuous erect, cinereous hairs; epistoma truncate in 
front; antennae rather long, and reaching to the basal third of the 
pronotum. Pronotum strongly transverse, two times as wide as 
long, narrower in front than behind, widest just behind the middle; 
sides regularly arcuately rounded, more obliquely in front than be- 
hind, the posterior angles obtusely rounded and rather widely sep- 
arated from the elytra ; anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate 
and without a median lobe ; base obliquety truncate to near the mid- 
dle, where it is strongly angularly lobed and transversely truncate in 
front of the scutelhnn; surface with a large, deep oblong median 
depression, which is longitudinally carinate at the middle, and with 
an obsolete depression on each side in the antero-lateral areas, the 
surface in the median depression is finely and densely punctate, the 
punctures shallow, more or less confluent, and shining at the bottom, 
on each side of the depression the surface is subopaque with deep 
pit like punctures, which are irregularly placed and rather widely 
separated, and on the antero-lateral regions the punctures become 
confluent, forming a network of vermiculate reliefs, which are more 
or less shining, in the center of each puncture is a small round eleva- 
tion from which arises a rather long fine semi-erect hair. Scutellum 
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nearly square, flat, and broadly rounded behind. Elytra feebly con- 
vex, about as wide as'the pronotum at base ; humeral angles broadly 
rounded; base strongly angulated; sides slightly arcuately expanded 
behind the humeral angles, rather strongly sinuate at the posterior 
coxae, nearly parallel to the apical third, then arcuately attenuate to 
the tips, which are rather acutely rounded, lateral margins coarsely 
dentate posteriorly, the teeth irregularly placed and very variable in 
size; humeri feebly developed; each elytron with 10 longitudinal 
rows of deep round punctures, which are about equal distance from 
each other and separated by narrow longitudinal costae, of which 
the second and fourth are more distinct and strongly elevated than 
the others, there is also an additional row of punctures extending 
from the base to near the middle, and separated from the sutural 
row by a short scutellar costa, which is as strongly elevated as the 
second and fourth costae, the costae Avith numerous large, round, 
shallow punctures, which are irregularly placed toAvard the side of 
the costae, becoming more numerous toward the sides and at the 
apical region, and in the center of which is a minute round elevation 
bearing an obsolete hair. Abdomen beneath sparsely and rather 
coarsely punctate, becoming feebly scabrous at the sides of basal 
segments, and clothed with moderately long, recumbent cinereous 
pubescence, the hairs sparsely placed on median parts but becoming 
much denser at the sides, the intervals nearly smooth, and moder- 
ately shining; first segment moderately convex and without a 
densely punctured and pubescent median spot; last segment rather 
narrowly rounded at apex. Prosternum moderately convex, the 
surface sparsely, coarsely punctate, and sparsely clothed with long 
fine erect hairs; anterior margin broadly rounded, w^ith a feeble, ar- 
cuate emargination at the middle, on each side of which the margin is 
rather strongly elevated; prosternal process short, very broad, 
feebly convex, with distinct marginal grooves and with the lateral 
margins narroAvly flattened and granulose, the sides parallel to the 
posterior part of the anterior coxal cavities, where they are trans- 
versely narrowed, with the apex broadly rounded. 
Length, 17 mm.; width, 5.75 mm. 
Tyfe locality. — Mangrove Cay, Andros Island, Bahamas. 
Type. — Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
This species is described from a single female collected at the 
type locality during May or June, 1917, bj' William M, Mann. 
It is one of the most slender species of the genus and can be readily 
separated from all other Polycesta found in the West Indies by the 
coloration, and by the posterior angles of the pronotum being broadly 
rounded and not fitting closely to the base of the elytra. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 19 
POLYCESTA PORCATA (Fabricius) 
Bupi-estis porcata Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 219. 
Folyccsta porcata Mannerheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 
DO. 8, 1837, p. 36. — Chevrolat, Silbermann's Revue Ent., vol. 5, 1838, 
p. 56. — Watebhouse, Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, 1904, p. 
254. — Kekremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 516-518. 
Male. — Broadly elongate, averaging about two and one-fifth times 
as long as wide; broadly rounded in front, more narrowly rounded 
behind, and feebly convex above; color above aeneo-nigris, with a 
strong greenish and purplish tinge; beneath of the same color but 
more shining than above. 
Head flat without any depressions on the front, but with a short 
obsolete longitudinal carina on the occiput; surface coarsely, deeply 
and densely punctate, the punctures variable in size, irregularly 
placed, and separated from each other by less than their diameter, 
clothed with a few very fine erect hairs, the intervals irregular in 
shape, convex, smooth and shining on the top ; epistoma feebly arcu- 
ately emarginate in front. Pronotum strongly transverse, two times 
as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, and widest 
at basal third; sides strongly obliquely expanded from the apical 
angles to basal third, where they are obtusely angulated, then 
strongly narrowed to near the posterior angles, which are nearly 
rectangular; anterior margin deeply arcuately emarginate, with a 
broadly rounded median lobe, and the margin smooth and narrowly 
elevated ; base bisinuate, with the median lobe rather strongly angu- 
lated; disk with a broad shallow median depression ; surface coarsely, 
deeply, and densely punctate, the punctures more or less confluent in 
the median depression and toward the antero-lateral areas, glabrous, 
the intervals densely granulose and subopaque. Scutellum small, 
suboval, slightly wider behind than in front, and strongly convex. 
Elytra feebly convex, about as wide as the pronotum at base ; humeral 
angles obtusely angulated ; sides feebly expanded behind the humeral 
angle, slightly sinuate at the posterior coxae, nearly parallel to apical 
third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are rather acute, 
the lateral margins coarsel}'' and irregularly serrate posteriorly ; each 
elytron with four feebly elevated smooth longitudinal costae, not 
including the scutellar one, which is very short and not extending 
to the base, the costae irregular, sinuate and usually only the two 
discal ones distinctly marked on the basal regions, becoming more 
obsolete toward the apex, there are also nine or ten longitudinal rows 
of large deep elliptical punctures, which are arranged in double 
rows between the costae, the punctures more or less confluent, very 
variable in shape and size, and forming a network of alveolus areas, 
the sutural and lateral margins coarsely and densely punctate; 
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humeri feebly developed. Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather 
densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with very fine, short recum- 
bent hairs, the intervals smooth and shining; first segment strongly 
convex at middle, with a densely punctured median spot, which is 
densely clothed with short, semi-erect, scale like hairs; last segment 
rather broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum strongly convex, sur- 
face sparsely punctate, the punctures fine on the median part but 
becoming very coarse and more or less confluent at the sides, sparsely 
clothed with a few obsolete semi-erect hairs ; anterior margin feebly 
elevated, feebly but broadly emarginate in front, forming an obso- 
lete lobe on each side ; prosternal process short, broad, feebly convex, 
and without marginal grooves, the sides obliquely narrowed to mid- 
dle of anterior coxal cavities, where they are emarginate and ab- 
ruptly narrowed, the apex very broadly rounded. 
Female. — Difi'ers from the male in being larger and more robust, 
and the first abdominal segment feebly convex and without the 
densely punctured and pubescent median spot. 
Length, 18-25 mm.; width, 7-10.5 mm. 
Originally described by Fabricius (1775) from " Oriente." Man- 
nerheim (1837) and Chevrolat (1838) both record it from the island 
of St. Domingo, and Waterhouse (1904) states that it is apparently 
common in St. Domingo. 
The following material has been examined. Coll. British Mus. : 
One male and two females, labeled as follows: St. Domingo (Fair- 
maire) ; St. Domingo (Coll. Chevrolat) ; and St. Domingo (Saunders 
74-18). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: One female, labeled "Antilles 
(Fairmaire)" (donated by the British Museum). 
This is one of the broadest species of the genus. 
POLYCESTA ANGULOSA Jacquclin Duval 
Polycesta angulosa Jacquelin Duval, In Ramon tie la Sagra's Hist. Phys. 
Polit. et Nat. de Tile de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 1857 (French edition)^ 
pp. 62-64; (Spanish edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 28.^Chevrolat, Ann.. 
Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, pp. 582-583 (separates pp. 
158-150). — GuNDLACH, Contribucion h la Entoni. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5^ 
1891, p. 166, no. 807. 
Polycesta excavata Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 513-515 (part).. 
Female. — More narrowly elongate than porcata, averaging about 
two and two-third times as long as wide, broadly rounded in front,, 
more acuminate behind, and feebly convex above; color above black 
or greenish-black, sometimes more or less cupreous, with the bottom 
of the punctures more distinctly cupreous than the reliefs; beneath 
dark aeneous to cupreous, with a strong greenish, bluish, or purplish 
tinge when viewed in certain lights. 
4 
ART. <J WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 21- 
Head nearly flat, with an obsolete depression on the front, and 
a short longitudinal carina on the occiput; surface coarsely and 
very densely punctate, the punctures variable in size and shape, 
more or less confluent and from the center of each arises a moder- 
ately long, fine erect hair, the intervals irregular in shape, with the 
tops sharply defined; epistoma truncate or obsoletely emarginate 
in front. Pronotum strongly transverse, not quite two times as 
wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, and widest 
just behind the middle; sides obliquely expanded from the apical 
angles to just behind the middle, where they are obtusely rounded 
or angulated, then obliquely narrowed to near the posterior angles 
where they are more parallel, the angles obtuse and slightly pro- 
jecting beneath the elytra; anterior margin feebly arcuately emar- 
ginate, with only an obsolete median lobe; base bisinuate with 
the median lobe broadly anugalted; disk with a broad shallow 
median depression, which is more or less longitudinally carinate 
at middle; surface coarsely, densely, and deeply punctate, the punc- 
tures much denser and somewhat confluent in the median depression 
and at the sides, where they are more irregular in shape, and the 
intervals forming a network of irregular alveolus areas, sparsely 
clothed with a few short inconspicuous hairs. Scutellum small 
and subquadrate. Elytra feebly convex, about as wide as pronotum 
at base; humeral angles obtusely angulated; sides slightly expanded 
behind the humeral angles, feebly sinuate at posterior coxae, nearly 
parallel to the apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 
which are conjointly broadly rounded, the lateral margins coarsely, 
irregularly serrate posteriorly; each elytron with a feebly indicated 
scutellar costa, and with two discal costae, which are smooth, straight, 
and more distinct toward the base, the costae not more strongly 
elevated than the intercostae, and separated from each other and 
the suture by double rows of large deep rounded punctures, which 
are variable in size, and more or less confluent, laterally the costae 
are obscure, irregular, and interrupted by the punctures, which 
are very deep, variable in shape and size, and forming a network 
of alveolus areas, the suture, lateral margin, and tops of reliefs 
with a few coarse, shallow punctures; humeri feebly developed. 
Abdomen beneath finely and densely punctate, and clothed with 
short recumbent hairs, the pubescence rather sparse on the median 
parts but becoming denser toward the sides, the intervals smooth 
and shining; first segment feebly convex and without a densely 
pubescent median spot; last segment rather narrowly rounded at 
apex. Prosternum strongly convex, surface densely punctate, the 
punctures rather fine and more widely separated on the prosternal 
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process, but becoming coarser, denser, and somewhat confluent at 
the sides and along the anterior margin, sparsely clothed with fine 
erect hairs; anterior margin broadly but not deeply arcuately 
emarginate in front, with the margin strongly elevated; prosternal 
process short, moderately broad, feebly convex, and without mar- 
ginal grooves, the sides nearly parallel to the middle of the anterior 
coxal cavities, where they are emarginate and abruptly narrowed, 
the apex broadly rounded. 
Length, 18-21 imn. ; width, 7-8 mm. 
Described by Jacquelin Duval (1857) from Cuba. Chevrolat 
(1867) records it from the central part of the same island from 
material in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. Gund- 
lach (1891) records collecting specimens at Cienfuegos, and also at 
Caimanera near Guantanamo, both localities in Cuba. 
Material has been examined of this species as follows. Coll. 
British Mus. : Tavo females, one labeled "Cuba (Poey)" and marked 
type, the other simply labeled "Parry (Saunders 74-18)." Coll. 
Acad. at. Sci. Philad. : One female,' Cuba (Poey Coll.). Coll. 
Amer, Mus. Nat. Hist. : One female, Guantanamo, Cuba, collected 
June 11, 1910, by Chas. T. Ramsden. Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: One 
female, Guantanamo, Cuba, collected June 26, 1915, by Chas. T. 
Ramsden. (Donated by Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.) There is also a 
specimen in the collection of the Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., labeled 
"Cuba (Poey Coll.)" which I have placed under this species. It 
is a very small specimen measuring only 11 millimeters in length 
and 4.5 millimeters in width, and which agrees in every way with 
the other specimens of this species examined, except in size. It 
is a male and has the usual densely punctured and pubescent median 
spot on the first abdominal segment. There is a single example 
labeled No. 807 in the Gundlach Museum in Havana which has 
not been examined by the writer. 
Kerremans has placed this species as a synonym of excavata de- 
scribed by Blanchard (1846) from Argentine Republic, but since 
these localities are so widely separated and the species has not been 
reported from any intermediate localities, I am retaining the name 
angulosa for the specimens collected in Cuba. This species is closely 
allied to porcata Fabricius, but it is more slender, head more 
densely and coarsely punctured, anterior margin of pronotum not as 
deeply emarginate, abdomen beneath more finely punctured and more 
densely pubescent, prosternum more densely punctured, and the 
prosternal process much narrower in proportion to its length than 
in porcata. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 23 
POLYCESTA OLIVIERI Wateihouse 
Buprestis depressa Olivier (not Linnaeus), Entomol., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, 
pp. 39-40 (part), (name preoccupied). 
Polycesta olivieri Watebhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, 
1904, p. 255.— Kerkemans, Men. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 511-513. 
Fetnale. — Elongate, broadly rounded in front, more attenn'ate be- 
hind, feebly flattened above and similar in shape to angulosa Jacque- 
lin Duval; above dull brownish-cupreous, with an obscure greenish or 
purplish tinge; beneath aeneous, with a strong purplish or greenish 
reflection, the tibiae, tarsi and antennae bluish-green. 
Head flat without any depressions on the front, but with a short 
obsolete longitudinal carina on the occiput; surface coarsely, deeply 
and densely punctate, the punctures very irregularly placed and 
more or less confluent, sparsely clothed with very fine erect incon- 
spicuous hairs, the intervals very irregular in shape, smooth and con- 
vex on the top; epistoma truncate or obsoletely emarginate in front 
and feebly lobed on each side at the antennal cavities. Pronotum 
strongly transverse, two times as wide as long, narrower in front 
than behind, and widest just behind the middle; sides strongly ob- 
liquely expanded to just behind the middle, where they 'are broadly 
rounded, then strongly attenuate to near the posterior angles where 
they are nearly parallel for a short distance (in one of the speci- 
mens the sides are regularly arcuately rounded), the posterior angles 
acute and slightly projecting beneath the elytr'a; anterior margin 
feebly arcuately emarginate, without a median lobe ; base feebly bisi- 
nuate or nearly transversely truncate; disk broadly but very feebly 
depressed ; surface coarsely, deeply, and rather densely punctate, the 
punctures irregularly placed, much coarser and denser in the median 
depression and on the antero-lateral regions, where they are also 
more or less confluent, sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous 
hairs, and with the intervals subopaque. Scutellum subquadrate (ip 
one specimen it is wider than long). Elytra feebly flattened on disk, 
declivous on the sides and about as wnde as the pronotum at base; 
humeral angles obtusely angulated ; sides obsoletely expanded behind 
the humeral angles, feebly sinu'ate at the posterior coxae, nearly par- 
allel to the apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
acutely rounded, the lateral margins strongly and irregularly serrate 
posteriorly; each elytron with 10 entire longitudinal rows of deep, 
round or subqu'adrate punctures, which are about equal distance from 
each other, and separated by narrow longitudinal costae, of which the 
second and fourth are more distinctly elevated than the others, 
there is also an additional row of finer punctures along the suture 
extending from the scutellum to basal fourth, and not sep'arated 
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from the other rows of punctures by a costa; humeri obsolete. Ab- 
domen beneath finely and densely punctuate, the i)unctures sparser 
on the median parts, but becoming much denser toward the sides, 
and rather densely clotlied with short recumbent hairs, the intervals 
smooth and subopaque; first segment moderately convex, 'and with- 
out a densely punctated and pubescent spot at middle; last seg- 
ment rather acutely rounded at apex. Prosternum strongly con- 
vex, surface finely, sparsely punctate, and sparsely clothed with 
long, very fine, erect hairs; anterior margin broadly rounded in front, 
with a broadly arcuate emargination at the middle ; prosternal pro- 
cess, short, moderately broad and with feeble marginal grooves, the 
sides nearly parallel to the middle of anterior cox'al cavities, where 
they are emarginate and abruptly narrowed, the apex broadly 
rounded. 
Male. — Not seen. 
Length, 20-24 mm. ; width, 6.5-8 mm. 
Olivier (1790) had before him more than one species when he re- 
described Buprestis depresta Linnaeus, but his figure is certainly 
that of depressa and he records specimens from South America, 
Antilles and Cayenne in the British Museum. Waterhouse (1904:) 
states that the species described by Olivier as depressa is not the 
one described by Linnaeus under that name, so he proposes the 
new name olivieri for it, and states that there is in the British 
Museum a very old specimen bearing the name depressa which he 
believed is certainly the one mentioned by Olivier. At least some 
of the specimens which Olivier had before him were the true depressa 
as his figure and description applies to that species and not to the one 
which Waterhouse has given a new name. Waterhouse further 
states that the old specimens in the British Museum are without 
locality, but recent examples in the Museum and in Oberthiir'h Col- 
lection are from Jamaica. 
I have been able to examine two females from the British Mu- 
seum Collection, labeled simply Jamaica, and from which the above 
description was made. (One of these specimens has been donated 
to the United States National Museum collection.) 
This species resembles angulosa Jacquelin Duval, but it is more 
flattened above, without scutellar costae, and the elytral punctures 
are much finer. From depressa Linnaeus and thomae Chevrolat, 
which also have the scutellar costae absent, it can be separated by the 
longitudinal costae on elytra not as distinctly elevated and the punc- 
tuation much finer. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 25 
POLYCESTA DEPRESSA (Linnaeus) 
Btiprestis (lejiressa Linnaeus, Mant Plant, vol. 2, 1771, p. 533.— Olivier, 
Entomol. vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 39-40 (part). 
Buprestis porcata Herbst, (not Fabricius) Nat. Syst. Ins. Kilfer, vol. 9, 
ISOl, pp. 34-35, pi. 145, fig. 6. 
Polycesta porcata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bnpr., vol. 2, 1837. pp. 2-3, 
pl. 1, fig. 1. 
Polyocsta karakera Cheat?olat, Silbermann's Rev. Ent, vol. 5, 1838, pp. 
54-55. — Fleutiaux and Sai.l^, Ann. Soe. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, 
1890, p. 404 (separates p. 54). 
Polycesta depressa Kerremans, Mou. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 502-50G, pl. 10, 
fig. 2. 
Female. — Elongate, broadly rounded in front, more acuminate 
behind, feebly convex above and similar in shape to angulosa Jac- 
quelin Duval; above dark metallic-green with the bottom of the 
punctures cujDreous or purplish, and the entire surface more or less 
tinged with the same color when viewed in certain lights; beneath 
brilliant green, with strong cupreous and purplish reflections, the 
tibiae, tarsi and antennae cyaneous. 
Head nearly flat without any depressions on the front, but with an 
obsolete longitudinal carina on the occiput ; surface nearly glabrous, 
coarsely, deeply and rather densely punctuate, the punctures irregu- 
larly placed and widely separated on the median part, but becoming 
denser and more regularly placed along the eyes, the intervals 
irregular in shape, smooth and convex on the top ; epistoma broadly, 
but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum strongly 
transverse, two times as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front 
than behind, and widest just behind the middle; sides strongly 
obliquely expanded from the apical angles to just behind the middle, 
where they are strongly obtusely angulated, then more feebly 
obliquely attenuate to the posterior angles, which are obtusely angu- 
lated and projecting beneath the elytra; anterior margin feebly 
arcuately emarginate, with a broad obsolete median lobe; base 
bisnuate, with a broad strongly angulated median lobe; disk with a 
broad subtriangular median depression, which is not deeply de- 
pressed, but sometimes with a fine longitudinal carina at the middle ; 
surface very coarsely and deeply punctuate, tlie punctures variable 
in size, becoming confluent in the median depression and on the 
antero-lateral areas, but more widely separated on each side of the 
discal depression, the intervals subopaque. Scutellum subquadrate, 
wider behind than in front, and feebly convex. Elytra feebly convex, 
slightly wider than pronotum at base ; humeral angles obtusely angu- 
lated; sides slightly arcuately expanded behind the humeral angles, 
feebly sinuate at posterior coxae, nearly parallel to apical third, then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly narrowly 
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rounded, the lateral margins strongly and very irregularly serrate 
posteriorly; each elytron with four strongly elevated longitudinal 
costae, of which the first and second are more distinct and extending 
from the base to apex, the third more or less arcuate and extending 
around the humeral callosity, and the fourth more or less parallel 
with the lateral margin, uniting with the third at humeral callosity 
and extending to the margin near apex, the scutellar costa entirely 
absent; there are also nine or ten longitudinal rows of large, deep 
round punctures, which are arranged in double rov,'s between the 
costae, the punctures more or less confluent, irregularly placed and 
forming a network of alveolus areas, the lateral margin coarsely and 
rather densely punctured; humeri feebly developed. Abdomen be- 
neath finely and rather densely punctate, rather densely clothed 
wath fine short recumbent hairs, which are shorter and sparser on the 
median part, but becoming denser toward the sides, the intervals 
smooth and shining; first segment moderately convex and without a 
densely punctured and pubescent spot at middle ; last segment rather 
acutely rounded at apex. Prosternum moderately convex; surface 
coarsely, sparsely punctate, and sparsely clothed Avith a few fine 
inconspicuous hairs, anterior margin broadly obsoletely emarginate 
in front ; prosternal process short, moderately broad, and with feeble 
marginal grooves, the sides nearly parallel to middle of anterior 
coxal cavities, where they are emarginate and abruptly narrowed, 
the apex rather broadly rounded. 
Blale. — Not seen. 
Length, 18-24 mm. ; width, 7-8.5 mm. 
This species was originally described by Linnaeus (1771) from 
" Oriente." Olivier (1790) gives a figure of this species and records 
it from South America, Antilles and Cayenne, and states that speci- 
mens are in the British Museum. It is the species listed and figured 
by Herbst (1801) us porcafa from Cayenne, (xuiana, and the Antilles, 
and also by Castelnau and Gory (1837) under the same name from 
Guadeloupe. Chevrolat (1838) described this species as karakera 
from specimens collected at Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, by Doctor 
Lherminier, and which he says is the same species figured by Castel- 
nau and Gory as porcata^ but is not the species described by Fabricius 
under that name. Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record specimens 
collected at Vieux Fort, Guadeloupe, by Vitrac on a climbing shrub 
{Tecoma 'pcnta'phylla). Kerremans (1906) records it from Cayenne, 
Santa Lucia, and Guadeloupe in the collection of the Paris Museum. 
Through the kindness of the British Museum I have been able 
to examine two females from their collection, one labeled Antilles 
(Fairmaire) which had been compared and agrees with Buprestis 
depressa in the Linnean Collection by C. O. Waterhouse, and from 
which the above description was made; the other specimen is with- 
1 
AKT. y WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE- — FISHER 27 
out locality, but is labeled " karakera Chevr., compared with type 
(Saunders 74—18)."' This specimen is more coarsely punctured, 
more brightly colored and more acuminate posteriorly, otherwise the 
two specimens are identical. 
This species resembles tho'mae very closely, but it is more slender, 
more brightly colored, more acuminate posteriorly, and the elytral 
costae are more strongly elevated. 
POLYCESTA THOMAE Chevrolat 
Polycesta thotnae Chevkolat, Silbermann's Rev. Ent., vol. 5, 3838, p. 55. — 
Watkrhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7. vol. 14, 1904, p. 254. — 
Kekkemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, p. 516. 
Female. — Eobust, broadly elongate, and similar to porcata, broadly 
rounded in front, more narrowly rounded behind and feebly convex 
above; color above aeneo-nigris, with a strong greenish and purplish 
tinge; beneath of the same color as above only more shining. 
Head flat, broadly obsoletely depressed on the front, and trans- 
versely, narrowly depressed between the antennal cavities; occiput 
without longitudinal carina ; surface coarsely, rather deeply and 
densely punctate, the punctures variable in size, irregularly placed, 
and more or less confluent, sparsely clothed with fine long erect hairs, 
the intervals irregular in shape, convex, smooth, and shining; epis- 
toma broadl}', but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Prono- 
tum strongly transverse, two times as wide as long, slightly nar- 
rower in front than behind, and widest at basal third ; sides strongly 
obliquely expanded from the apical angles to basal third, where they 
are broadly rounded, then strongly narrowed to the posterior angles, 
which are nearly rectangular; anterior margin deeply arcuately 
emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe, and the margin 
smooth and feebly elevated; base bisinuate, with the median lobe 
rather strongly angulated; disk with a broad, moderately deep 
median depression; surface coarsely, deeply and densely punctate, 
the punctures coarser, and more or less confluent in the median de- 
pression and toward the antero-lateral areas, sparsel}^ clothed with a 
fcAv moderately long recumbent hairs, tlie intervals densely granu- 
lose and subopaque. Scutellum subquadrate, wider behind than in 
front, and feebly elevated. Elytra feebly convex, about as wide as 
pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely angulated; sides feebly 
expanded behind the humeral angles, sinuate at the posterior coxae, 
nearly parallel to apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 
which are conjointly broadly rounded, the lateral margins coarsely 
and irregularly serrate posteriorly : each elytron with four smooth 
longitudinal costae, of which the two discal ones are straight and 
more strongly elevated than the intercostae, the scutellar cost a ab- 
sent; there are also ten longitudinal rows of large deep elliptical 
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punctures which are arranged in double rows between the costae, the 
punctures more or less confluent, very variable in size and shape, and 
forming a network of alveolus areas, the sutural and lateral margins 
coarsely and densely punctate; humeri feebly developed. Abdomen 
beneath coarsely, densely punctate, and rather densely clothed with 
moderately long recumbent hairs, the intervals smooth and shining; 
first segment feebly convex, without a densely punctured and pubes- 
cent median spot; last segment rather broadly rounded at apex. 
Prosternum moderatel}^ convex; surface sparsely, coarsely punctate, 
and sparsely clothed with fine, moderately long, recumbent hairs; 
anterior margin feebly, broadly emarginate in fix)nt, with a small 
lobe on each side, and where the margin is feebly elevated ; prosternal 
process short, very broad, feebly convex, and without marginal 
grooves, the sides parallel to middle of anterior coxal cavities, where 
they are emarginate and abruptly narrowed, the apex very broadly 
ix)unded. 
Male. — Not seen. 
Length, 20-25 mm. ; width, 8-9.5 mm. 
This species was described by Chevrolat (1838) from the island 
of St. Thomas. Kerremans (1906) records specimens from the same 
island in the collection of the British Museum and also in the Pari? 
Museum. Kerremans has placed this species as a synonym of por- 
cata Fabricius, but "Waterhouse (1904) writes that the type of thomae 
is in the collection of the British Museum, and that it is distinct from 
porcata. 
I have examined two females of this species, one from the collec- 
tion of the British Museum simply labeled St. Thomas ; the other in 
the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, from 
the same locality, collected during July, 1915, probably by C Shoe- 
maker. After carefully examining the above specimens, I agree with 
Waterhouse that it is distinct from porcata. The punctuation on the 
elytra is finer and more regular, the four costae on disk are distinctly 
elevated, and the scutellar costae are entirely absent. 
Genus ACMAEODERA Eschscholtz 
Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint p. 8).— 
SoLiER, Anu. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 274-275, pi. 10, 
fig. 7. — Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1835-1836, pp. 1-31, 
pis. 1-9. — Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 7, 1838, p. 341. — 
Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 66-68.— Horn, Trans. Amer. 
Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1878, pp. 2-27, pi. 1.— Fall, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 
vol. 7, 1899, pp. 1-37. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 
12, pt. 1, 1902, pp. 27-37; Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1906-1907, pp. 1-523, 
pis. 11-16. 
Head flat or feebly convex ; front strongly narrowed by the inser- 
tion of the antennae ; epistoma very short and emarginate in front ; 
AET. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 29 
antennal cavities rather large, deep, transverse, reniform. not con- 
cealed beneath a carina, and situated at some distance from the inner 
margin of the eyes. Antennae rather short, first joint long, feebly 
arcuate, and clavate at apex, second, third, and fourth short, sub- 
globular, and subequal in length, fifth to tenth serrate, wider than 
long (sometimes serrate from the fourth joint), the eleventh joint 
oval. Eyes large, narrowly oval, feebly convex, parallel, or at most 
only obs®letely more widely separated on the vertex than at the 
front. Pronotum strongly transverse, variable in shape, often wider 
than the elytra, depressed, sulcate or convex at the middle, truncate 
at the base, which is longitudinally striate along the entire width. 
Scutellum not visible. Elytra variable in form, rounded or acumi- 
nate at the apex, with the sides serrate posteriorl3^ Sternal cavity 
formed entirely bj^ the mesosternum, which is entire and emarginate 
in front. Prosternum wide, flat or convex, the anterior margin 
sinuate, emarginate, truncate, or lobed at the middle, and the proster- 
nal process usually broadly rounded at apex. Posterior coxae 
dilated internally. Legs rather short and slender; tarsi rather 
robust, the fifth joint nearly as long as the preceding joints united ; 
tarsal claws dentate. 
This is a very large genus and at present contains about 300 
species, which are distributed throughout the warmer regions of the 
entire world, with the exception of Australia, where they are re- 
placed by the genus Stigmodera. The present paper includes S 
species, 4 of which are described as new. 
The adults are usually found feeding on the pollen of various 
flowers, and since the color markings are so variable in some species, 
they are exceedingly difficult to identify. The species of this genus 
can be readily separated from all other West Indian Buprestidae by 
the scutellum being invisible. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Antennae serrate from the fourth joint; subcylindrical species 2. 
Antennae serrate from the fifth joint 3. 
2. Elytral markings consisting of nine small yellow spots on each elytron, ar- 
ranged in two rows, one lateral, the other near the suture; yellow spot 
on pronotum small and not attaining the base subcylindrica Fisher. 
lillytral niarkhigs consisting of a small yellow spot near the scutellum, an 
oblong lateral area behind the humeri enclosing a dark spot, and three 
transverse fasciae beliind the middle; yellow spot on pronotum large, 
extending over the entire postoro-lateral area jamaicensis Fisher. 
3. Pronotum distinctly wider than elytra 4. 
Pronotum not wider than elytra 5. 
4. First abdominal segment with a large yellow basal spot at middle; elytra 
orange-yellow, with the suture, apex and four transverse spots along 
lateral margin black, the black sutural area is also irregularly expanded, 
punctuation very coarse and deep, and the intervals very narrow and 
acute on top marginenotata Chevrolat. 
30 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol.65 
First abdominal segment without yellow basal spot ; elytra black without 
discal markings, but with a yellow marginal band beliind the humeri, and 
two transverse reddish-yellow fasciae near apex, whicli are more or less 
confluent, punctuation fine, the intervals at least as wide as the striae and 
flattened on top flavomarginata (Gray). 
5. Body robust and triangular, enlarged at base, and very acuminate pos- 
teriorly G. 
Body more slender and elongate, not triangular; elytra more parallel and not 
as strongly acuminate posteriorly 8. 
G. Sutural margin expanded and smooth on Itasal half; elytra without red 
apical spot 7. 
Sutural margin not expanded on basal half; elytra with a fiery red apical 
spot cnienta (Olivier). 
7. Broadly triangular : elytra one and one-half times as long as the width at 
base, the maculation consisting of numerous small irregular yellow spots. 
which are confluent pulcherrima Jacquelis Duval. 
More elongate-triangular; elytra two times as long as the width at base, the 
maculation consisting of a yellow .scutellar spot, and four irregular trans- 
verse yellow fasciae, which are more or less interrupted. 
wickhami Fisher. 
8. Pronotum widest at basal third or middle cubaecola .Taciiuelin Duval. 
Pronotum widest at base gundlachi Fisher. 
ACMAEODERA SUBCYLINDRICA, new species 
Narrowly elongate, siibcylinclrical, strongly convex, broadly 
rounded in front and strongly attenuate behind; when viewed in 
profile, the surface beneath is nearly straight to the last ventral seg- 
ment, where it is strongly attenuate, above feebly arcuate; piceous, 
with a strong purplish tinge; pronotum with an oval yellow spot on 
each side, narrowly separated from the lateral margin but not attain- 
ing the base or apex. Each elytron ornated with ten small irregu- 
lar yellow spots arranged in two longitudinal rows, one along the 
lateral margin, the other on the disk; in the lateral row the spots 
are arranged as follows : a very small one at liumeral angle, one just 
behind the humeri, third at the middle, fourth at apical third, fifth 
at apical fourth, and a small one at the apex ; in the discal row they 
are arranged, one at the base, second at basal third midway between 
the second and third lateral spots, third behind the middle between 
the third and fourth lateral spots, and a very small spot connected 
externally to the fiftli marginal spot. Color beneath similar to that 
above. 
Head feebly convex, with a broad, oval, obsolete depression on the 
front and a short distinct elevated carina on the occiput; surface 
densely and very coarsely punctate, the punctures rather shallow, 
irregular, and nearly confluent, the sides forming a network of po- 
lygonial areas, bottom of punctures nearly smooth and from which 
arises a moderately long erect inconspicuous hair; epistoma very 
broadly arcuately emarginate in front. Antennae serrate from the 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 31 
fourth joint ; first joint elongate, slightly arcuate and longer than the 
second and third joints united, the surface shining and feebly granu- 
lose; second and third joints moniliform, surface similar to the first; 
fourth to tenth strongly triangular, wider than long, with the surface 
■very densely granulose and subopaque ; the eleventh oblong, slightly 
angulated on outer margin, with the surface similar to the preceding- 
joint. (In the type the right antenna is deformed, and the fourth 
and fifth joints are consolidated.) Pronotum strongly transverse 
and moderately convex, one and four-fifths times as wide as long, 
narrower in front than at base, widest at basal third, with an obso- 
lete depression in front of the scutellum, and a broad shallow one on 
■each side along the base a short distance from the posterior angles, 
extending forward along the interior margin of the j^ellow spot but 
becoming obsolete at its anterior margin, causing the j-ellow spot to 
be arcuately elevated, in this depression close to the base there is 
also a round deep pit; sides arcuately rounded to basal third, then 
obliquely arcuately narrowed to the anterior margin, w^hich is feebly 
arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded lobe at the middle; 
base transversely truncate; side margins narrow, and visible from 
above except near the apical angles; surface densely and very 
coarsely punctate similar to that of the head. Elytra moderately 
convex and slightly flattened on disk, as wide at base as pronotum; 
sides nearly parallel from base to just behind the middle, then arcu- 
ately attenuate to the tips, which are rather narrowly, conjointly 
rounded, the lateral margins strongly serrate posteriorly; humeri 
strongly developed ; striae impressed, about as wide as the intervals on 
the disk at base, but becoming narrower toward apex, the punctures 
coarse, deep, oblong and separated from each other in the striae by 
about one-half their length; intervals not elevated, nearly smooth, 
with a single series of distant minute punctures, from which arises 
a rather long erect cinereous hair. Abdomen beneath rather densely, 
but not coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow, widely separated, 
and open on the one side, and from which arises a long semierect 
cinereous hair; intervals obsoletely granulose; last ventral segment 
rather broadly rounded at apex, and without a subapical carina. 
Prosternum more coarsely and deeply punctured than abdomen ; an- 
terior margin with an obsolete rectangular lobe at middle, which is 
nearly truncate in front ; prosternal process parallel to behind coxae 
and about two times as wide as the coxal cavity. 
Length, 6.5 mm. ; width, 2.25 mm. 
Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 
Other localities.— -CmnvAguey, Cuba. 
Type.— Cat. No. 26802, U.S.N.M. 
Paratype. — Collection of S. C. Bruner. 
45554— 25— Proc.N.M.vol.6o 13 
32 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol. G5 
Described from two specimens, probably both females. The type 
was collected by E. A. Schwarz, May 9, 1904, and a paratype received 
from S. C. Bruner, which was collected at Camaguey, Cuba, during 
July or August, 1920, by J. Kutz. 
This is an elongate subcylindrical species and can be separated 
from all other West Indian species of this genus, except jamaicensis. 
by the antennae being serrate from the fourth joint. From jamai- 
censis it differs in having the yellow elytral spots arranged in two 
longitudinal rows, one along the lateral margin, the other near the 
suture. 
ACMAEODERA JAMAICENSIS, new species 
Male. — Narrowly elongate, subcylindrical, rounded in front, more 
acuminate posteriorly and feebly flattened above (nearly straight 
below and feebly arcuate above when viewed in profile) ; head and 
pronotum black, with a feeble aeneous tinge, the latter with a large 
triangular reddish-yellow spot, situated on each side at the posterior 
angles, extending internally for about one-third of the width of 
the pronotum, and along the lateral margin to near the apical 
angles; elytra black, with a slight purplish tinge, and each elytron 
ornated with yellow markings as follows: A small spot at base 
near scutellum, a large oblong area along lateral margin, extending 
from humerus to middle, and internally to about the middle of the 
elytron, and enclosing an oblong dark spot, a transverse fascia at 
apical third, an oblique one just behind it, and a small round spot 
at the apex; beneath aeneous, with a strong purplish tinge and 
more shining than above. 
Head nearly flat, with an obsolete depression on the front, and 
a short elevated carina on the occiput; surface densely and coarsely 
punctate, the bottom of the punctures smooth, and from the center 
of each arises an erect inconspicuous hair, the intervals rather nar- 
row, smooth and shining; epistoma broadly and deeply arcuately 
emarginate in front, forming a broadly rounded lobe on each side 
of the emargination ; antennate serrate from the fourth joint, the 
serrate joints strongly transverse and acuminate at apex. Pronotum 
rather strongly transverse and moderately convex, nearly two times 
as wide as long, apex and base nearly equal in width, widest just 
behind the middle with a small foveate depression in front of the 
scutellum, and on each side in the yellow area a similar but deeper 
depression, situated a short distance from the base, there is also a 
broad obsolete depression extending from this fovea obliquely for- 
ward toward the lateral margin; sides arcuately rounded, slightly 
more obliquely in front than behind, the margins narrowly flattened 
and only partially visible from above; anterior margin feebly 
arcuately emarginate, with a distinct angulated median lobe: baso 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHEK 33 
transversely truncate; surface densely and very coarsely punctate, 
the punctures shallow, irregular, and nearly confluent, the sides 
forming a network of polygonal areas, bottom of punctures smooth 
and from each arises a short erect inconspicuous hair. Elytra 
obsoletely flattened above, equal in width to the pronotum at middle, 
and rectangular at humeral angles; sides nearly parallel to behind 
the middle, (feebly sinuate at posterior coxae), then arcuately at- 
tenuate to the tips, which are conjointly rounded, the lateral mar-gins 
serrate to near the base, the teeth fine at the basal regions, but be- 
coming very coarse toward the apex; humeri strongly developed; 
surface striato-punctate, the striae on disk feebly impressed and 
wider than the intervals at base, becoming more deeply impressed 
and narrower toward the apex, the punctures large, very deep, and 
more or less confluent on the basal region, becoming finer and more 
shallow posteriorly, the intervals very narrow and somewhat con- 
stricted in front of middle, but much broaded toward the apex, the 
tops smooth, shining, and with a few fine, remotely placed punctures 
from which arises short erect black hairs. Abdomen beneath densely 
and coarsely punctate, the punctures deeply impressed on the basal 
segments, but becoming smaller, more widely separated and not as 
deeply impressed toward the apex, sparsely clothed with rather long 
recumbent cinereous hairs, the intervals smooth and shining; last 
ventral segment obtusely rounded at apex, and without a subapical 
carina. Prosternum very coarsely and rather densely punctate, and 
sparsely clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs; anterior margin 
with a very feeble median lobe, which is obsoletely arcuately 
emarginate in front; prosternal process parallel to behind the 
anterior coxal cavities, scarcely two times as wide as the cavities, 
and broadly rounded at the apex. 
Length, 7.5 mm. ; width, 2.75 mm. 
Type locality. — Jamaica. 
Type. — British Museum. 
This species is described from a single male received through the 
kindness of the British Museum. It is simply labeled Jamaica with- 
out any additional data and was received under the manuscript 
name jarnaicensis, which I have retained for the species. 
It is one of the elongate subcylindrical species and can be sepa- 
rated from all the other West Indian species of this genus, except 
subcylindrica Fisher, by the antennae being serrate from the fourth 
joint. From that species it can be distinguished by the yellow 
elytral markings, which are not broken up into two longitudinal 
rows of small spots, but has a large lateral area behind the humeri 
enclosing a dark spot and with transverse fasciae toward the apex. 
34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. G5 
ACMAEODERA MARGINENOTATA Cheviolat 
Acinaeodcrd /narglncnotata Ciievkolat, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, pp. 583-584 (separate pp. 150-100).— Gtjnulach, Contribucion 
{"l la Entora. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1801, p. 167, no. 809.— Kerremans, Mon. 
Bupr., vol. 2, 1906, pp. 56-57. 
Acmacodcra cubaecola Fall, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 35. (Not 
cubaccola .Tacquelin Duval.) 
Broadly eloriirate. feebly trian<!:iilar. broadly rounded in front, 
more attenuate posteriorly, and feeblj'' flattened above (nearly 
straight below and broadly arcuate above when viewed in profile) ; 
head and pronotum black, with a slight purplish tinge, the latter 
with a large triangular yellow spot, situated on each side at the pos- 
terior angles ; elytra orange-yellow, the suture, apex, and four trans- 
verse spots along the lateral margin black, the black color along 
suture is also expanded into numerous irregular fasciae, which some- 
times extend to the middle of the elytron; beneath black, with a 
strong aeneo-viridis reflection, and ornated with a large round 
median yellow spot at base of first abdominal segment. 
Head flat, with a short elevated carina on the ociput; surface 
coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures rather shallow, nearly 
confluent, and from the center of each arises a rather long semi- 
erect cinereous hair, the intervals narrow and feebly shining; epis- 
toma strongly elevated, very short, and narrow on the top, the 
anterior m.argin broadly and A'^ery deeply arcuately emarginate in 
front, and the lobes on each side of the emargination subtruncate 
and strongly compressed; antennae serrate from the fifth joint. 
Pronotum strongly transverse and moderately convex. tAvice as 
wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest just 
behind the middle, with three large deep basal depressions, one 
median, and one on each side at the inner margin of the yellow spot, 
there is also a narrow transverse depression along the anterior 
margin, more or less interrupted at the middle; sides strongly ob- 
liquely expanded to the middle, then strongly arcuately rounded 
to the posterior angles, which are rectangular, the margins feebly 
flattened posteriorly and visible from above; anterior margin arcu- 
ately emarginate, Avitli a strongly angulated median lobe; base 
transversely truncate; surface densely, coarsely and ver}'^ deeply 
punctate, the punctures confluent and irregular in shape, with their 
sides acute on the top and forming a network of polygonal areas, 
bottom of punctures obsoletely granulose, and from which arises 
a short, semi-erect black hair. Elytra convex, feebl}^ flattened on 
top, and sharply deflexed on the sides, distinctl}' narrower than the 
pronotum at middle, the humeral angles when viewed laterally are 
bent downward into a narrow lobe; sides when viewed from above 
are feebly obliquely narrowed to the apical third, then arcuately 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE- — FISHER 35 
attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded, the 
lateral margins rather coarsely serrate from apex to the posterior 
coxae ; humeri feebly developed ; surface with a more or less distinct 
costa on each side at the lateral declivity, the sutural margins rugose, 
with a strongly elevated carina at the middle, and without any 
visible suture between the elytra, the surface is also striato-punctate, 
the striae very wide, the punctures coarse, extremely deep and 
nearly connected in the striae, the intervals between the striae very 
narrow, acute on top, with the surface coarsely granulose, and 
clothed with a few remotely placed, coarse, erect black hairs, the 
striae becoming broader and more convex on the lateral deflexed 
areas. Abdomen beneath densely and coarsely punctate, the punc- 
tures deep and nearly confluent on the basal segments, becoming 
more shallow toward the apex, sparsely clothed with long recumbent 
cinereous hairs, and with the intervals obsoletely granulose; last 
segment broadly rounded at apex, without a subapical carina. Pro- 
sternum coarsely, densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with re- 
cumbent cinereous hairs, intervals coarsely and finely granulose; 
anterior margin with a distinct median lobe, which is elevated and 
feebly arcuately emarginate in front; prosternal process strongly 
convex, parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, about two 
times as wide as the cavities, and very broadly rounded at the apex. 
Length, 7.5 mm.; width, 3.5 mm. 
Described by Chevrolat (1867) from Cuba and recorded by him 
from the central part of the island, from material in the collections 
of Gundlach and Poey. Gundlach (1891) reports collecting it on 
the flowers of a shrub at Caimanera and Cienfuegos. Kerremans 
(190G) records it from Cuba but states that the species is unknown 
to him. This species is not represented in the Poey collection in 
Philadelphia, but there is a single example labeled No. 809 in the 
Gundlach Museum in Habana, which has not been available for 
stud}'. 
Tliis species seems to be very rare in collections and I have not seen 
any specimens of it from the West Indies, but there is a specimen 
in the United States National Museum from Key Largo, Florida, 
Avliich agrees with the description given by Chevrolat, and from 
which the above description was made. It is a very distinct species, 
extremely coarsely and deeply punctate, sides of the elytra strongly 
deflexed at lateral margins, humeral angles produced into a narrow 
lobe, and w^ith a large yellow basal spot at middle of the first abdo- 
minal segment. In the specimen examined the elytra seem to be 
connate, as no suture could be seen between the two elytron, but on 
account of it being a unique specimen, no dissections could be made. 
This is the specimen recorded by Fall (1899) as cuhaecola Jacquelin 
Duval, based on an identification made by Linell. 
36 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol.65 
ACMAEODERA FLAVOMARGINATA (Gray) 
Buprefitis flavomarginata Gray, Griffith's Anim. Kingd., vol. 14, 1832, p. 
358, pi. 31, fig. 2. 
Acmaeodera flavomarginata Chevbolat, Col§opt&res du Mexico, Cent. 1, 
1834. — Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1835, pp. 2-3, pi. 1, fig. 
2. — Saundebs, Catal. Bupr., 1871, p. 79. — Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 
vol. 7, 1878, p. 8, pi. 1, fig. 4. — Wateriiouse, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt. 
vol. 3, pt. 1, 1882, p. 21; 1889, p. 178.— Fall, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 
r vol. 7, 1899, p. 8. — Fleutiaux and Sall6, ^Inn. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 
6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 405 (separates p. 55). — Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 
2, 1906, pp. 31-34. 
Aanaeodera proximo Waterhouse, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt, vol. 3, pt. 
1, 1889, pp. 178-179. 
Acmaeodera contigua Kerremans, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 6, 1897, p. 42. 
Elongate, feebly triangular, broadly rounded in front, more ac- 
cuminate posteriorly, and feebly flattened above (nearly straight be- 
neath and moderately arcuate above when viewed in profile) ; pice- 
ous, with a slight aeneous tinge; pronotum with a lateral yellow 
longitudinal band, not quite touching the lateral margin, and some- 
times abbreviated anteriorly; elytra without i^cal markings, but 
with a yellow marginal band extending from the humeri to a little 
behind the middle, and becoming slightly wider posteriorly, and 
with two transverse reddish or yellowish fasciae near the apex, the 
two fasciae sometimes connected, forming a broad band, and enclos- 
ing one or more small dark spots ; beneath more shining than above. 
Head nearly flat, with a broad, moderately deep, oval depression 
on the front, and forming two more or less distinct elevations; 
occiput with a longitudinal carina extending to the frontal depres- 
sion; surface densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures rather 
deep, irregular, and nearly confluent, the sides forming a network of 
polygonal areas, bottom of punctures smooth and from the center 
of which arises a long erect inconspicuous hair; epistoma broadly and 
deeply triangularly emarginate in front, with the lateral angles 
broadly rounded; antennae serrate from the fifth joint. Pronotum 
strongly transverse and moderately convex, two and one-half times 
as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at 
basal sixth, with a large, rather deep median depression, which is 
broader posteriorly, and with a small very deep depression on each 
side near the base, about midway between the middle and lateral 
margin ; sides obliquely expanded from apical angles to basal sixth, 
where they are arcuately rounded, the margins rather broadly flat- 
tened and visible from above; anterior margin deeply arcuately 
emarginate, with a broadly rounded lobe at the middle; base trans- 
versely truncate, the p€>sterior angles obtusely rounded; surface 
densely, coarsely and regularly punctate, the punctures well sepa- 
rated on the disk, but becoming denser and more confluent toward 
ABT. 9 
WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 37 
the sides, and from each puncture arises a long erect inconspicuous 
hair. Elytra slightly flattened on disk, not quite as wide as pro- 
notum; humeral angles obtusely angulated; sides feebly obliquely 
narrowed to behind the middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 
which are conjointly acutely rounded, the lateral margins coarsely 
serrate posteriorly; humeri strongly developed; surface striato-punc- 
tate, the striae impressed, nearly as wide as the intervals on the disk 
at base, becoming much narrower toward the apex, and rather widely 
separated at the sides, the striae punctures deep, coarse, and sepa- 
rated by about their own diameter, becoming finer and more oblong 
toward the apex; intervals flat on the disk, more convex laterally, 
with a single row of distant minute punctures, from which arises 
a rather long erect inconspicuous hair, the fifth interval costate, 
sometimes obsolete apically, but it is always distinct at the base. 
xVbdomen beneath rather densely but not coarsely punctate, the punc- 
tures shallow and open posteriorly, and sparsely clothed with long 
inconspicuous hairs, the intervals smooth and shining; last ventral 
segment broadly rounded at apex, without a distinct subapical carina. 
Prosternum more coarsely and deeply punctate than the abdomen; 
anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate at the middle, with a 
distinct lobe on each side of the emargination ; prosternal process 
parallel to behind the anterior coxae, nearly three times as wide as 
the coxal cavity, and feebly broadly rounded at apex. 
Length, 8-13 mm. ; width, 3.2-4.75 mm. 
This species was described originally by Gray (1832) from Brazil. 
Saunders (1871), and Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record it from 
Guadeloupe. Waterhouse (1889) described the same species from 
Mexico as proxima, and Kerremans (1897) also described the species 
from Guadeloupe under the name of contigu-a. Only two specimens 
of this species from the West Indies have been examined, and both 
of these were received from the British Museum, one labeled " Guade- 
loupe (Fairm)," the other Guadeloupe (Plason) and labeled type 
of contigua Kerremans. 
The species is widely distributed from Texas southward to Brazil, 
but so far, has only been recorded from one of the West Indian 
Islands. In a species so widely distributed, a great variation would 
naturally be expected, but the only variation seen in a series of 
specimens examined from widely separated regions, is that of the 
transverse reddish or yellowish fasciae near the apex of the elytra, 
and which has caused it to be described under a number of different 
names. In some specimens the two fasciae are distinctly separated, 
while in others they are more or less connected, forming a broad band 
and enclosing one or more small dark spots. 
38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. G5 
ACMAEODERA CRUENTA (Olivier) 
Buprestis cruentu Oi.ivikk. Kntninol., vol. 2, fien. 32. 1790, pp. 48-49. pi. 
3. fig. 21. 
Acmaeodera omenta Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1835, p. 2, 
pi. 1, fig. 1. — MANNERHEI^t, BuU. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, no. 8, 
1837, p. 24.— Kekeemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1906, pp. 50-53. 
Robust, rather short, strongly triangular, broadly rounded in front, 
more acuminate posteriorly, and feebly flattened above, nearly 
straight beneath and moderately arcuate above when viewed in pro- 
file; head and pronotum aeneous, the latter with a large triangular 
reddish-yellow spot, situated on each side along the lateral margin, 
broader posteriorly and not reaching to the apical angles; elytra 
black, with a strong bluish or greenish tinge, each elytron with an 
oblong reddish-yellow spot near apex and ornated with from seven 
to nine rather large irregular yellow spots arranged in two longi- 
tudinal rows, one near the suture, the other along the lateral margin, 
the spots in the lateral row usually consists of a very small one at 
humeral angle, and three transverse ones, one at the basal third, one 
at the middle, and the other at the apical third, those in the sutural 
row vary in number from four to five, irregular in size, and not 
always arranged in a straight line; beneath aeneous, with a distinct 
olivaceous tinge, and more shining than above. 
Head flat, with a distinct longitudinal carina on the occiput; sur- 
face densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures rather deep, ir- 
regular, and nearly confluent, smooth in the bottom, and from the 
center of which arises a long, erect inconspicuous hair, the intervals 
smooth and shining ; epistoma broadly arcuately emarginate in front, 
forming a broadly rounded lobe on each side of the emargination ; 
antennae serrate fix)m the fifth joint. Pronotum strongly transverse 
and moderately convex, two and one-fourth times as wide as long, 
distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base, with a broad 
triangular obsolete depression at the middle along the base, and on 
each side a round, deep, foveate depression, situated a certain dis- 
tance from the base and at the inner margin of the lateral yellow 
spot, which is gibbose ; anterior margin very deeply arcuately emar- 
ginate, with an obsolete median lobe ; sides arcuately expanded from 
the anterior margin to posterior angles, which are obtuse, the mar- 
gins narrowly flattened, bent under posteriorly, and not visible from 
above, except toward the apical angles: base transversely truncate; 
surface densely and deeply punctate, the punctures fine and rather 
widely separated on the disk, and becoming much coarser and more 
confluent at the sides, especially on the yellow spaces, sparsely 
clothed with long, erect, inconspicuous hairs, intervals smooth and 
shining. Elytra slightly concave on disk, and abruptly declivous on 
the sides and at apex, and slightly wider than pronotum at base: 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHEE 39 
liumeral angles obtusely angulated; sides obliquely attenuate to 
apical third, then more arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
conjointly acutely rounded, the lateral margins coarsely serrate pos- 
teriorly; humeri strongly developed; surface striato-punctate, in the 
concave area the striae are deeply impressed, about one-fourth as 
wide as the intervals, and the punctures fine, elongate and confluent 
in the striae, toward the sides the striae are feebly impressed, nearly 
as wide as the intervals, and the punctures very coarse, and more or 
less confluent; intervals flat on the disk, becoming more convex 
laterally, and with a rovv of fine, densely placed punctures, from the 
center of which arises a long erect black hair. Abdomen beneath 
densely, finely and rather regularly punctate, and sparsely clothed 
with short erect cinereous hairs, intervals smooth and shining; sec- 
ond segment with a round obsolete depression at middle along an- 
terior margin; last segment broadly rounded at apex; without a 
subapical carina. Prosternum punctate similar to that of the ab- 
domen ; anterior margin with a distinct median lobe, which is deeply 
arcuately emarginate in front ; prosternal process parallel behind the 
anterior coxae, at least two times as wide as the coxal cavity, and 
broadly rounded at apex. 
Length, 8-11 mm.; width, 4-5 mm. 
Originally described by Oliver (1790) from Santo Domingo. 
Mannerheim (1837) records it from the same island on the foliage of 
Crotinus cascarillae^ and from all accounts the distribution of this 
species is restricted to that island. The following material has been 
examined. Coll. U. S. Nat- Mus. : One specimen from Port-au-Prince, 
Haiti (W. L. Rockwell), and another one from the same locality 
collected by R. J. Crew, and received from H. F. Wickham. Coll. 
British Museum: One specimen, Haiti (Saunders 74-18) ; one labeled 
simply St. Domingo, and a third specimen, labeled Haiti (Mus. Paris, 
Chevrolat Coll.). 
In size and form this species resembles pulcherrima Jacquelin 
Duval, but it can be easily separated from that species by the elytra 
having the apex fiery red, and the yellow markings arranged in two 
longitudinal rows on each elytron. 
ACMAEODERA CUBAECOLA Jacquelin Duval 
Acmaeodera cubaecola Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon tie la Sagra's Hist. 
Pliys. Polit. et Nat de I'ile de Cuba. Anim. Artie, 1857 (French Edi- 
tion), pp. 57-58; (Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 1857, pp. 26-27. — Chrevolat. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. .583 (separates, p. 159). — 
GuNDLACH, Contribution k la Entomol., Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 
167, no. 1414. — Kekremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1906, pp. 61-63, 
pi. 11, fig. 5. 
Xarrowly elongate, subcylindrical, rounded in front, more acumi- 
nate posteriorly, and strongly convex above, sinuate below and 
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40 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAl. MUSEUM vol.65 
feebly arcuate above when viewed in profile; head and pronotum 
nigro-aeneous, the latter with a more or less triangular yellowish 
spot, situated on each side along the lateral margin, and not quite 
reaching to the posterior angles nor anterior margin; elytra nigro- 
aeneous, with a strong cyaneous or purplish tinge, and ornated 
with numerous small yellow spots, which are arranged on each 
elytron as follows: A small round one at base near scutellum, a 
narrow longitudinal one along lateral margin behind humerus, and 
strongly sinuate on the inner margin, four small ones on median 
part, arranged obliquely in pairs, and a small spot near the apex, 
sometimes the spots more or less confluent, and with an additional 
one along the suture in front of apex; beneath aeneous, with a 
strong cupreous or brownish tinge. 
Head flat, with a short elevated carina on the occiput; surface 
coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures more or less confluent, 
and the sides forming a network of polygonal areas, the bottom 
of the punctures smooth, and from the center of each puncture arises 
an erect inconspicuous hair; epistoma broadly and rather deeply 
arcuately emarginate in front, forming an arcuately rounded lobe 
on each side of the emargination ; antennae serrate from the fifth 
joint. Pronotum moderately transverse, and rather strongly convex, 
one and one-half times as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front 
than behind, widest at basal third, with an obsolete depression at 
middle along base, and on each side near the inner margin of the 
yellow space a deep foveate depression, situated a short distance 
from the base; sides obliquely expanded to basal third, where they 
are arcuately rounded to the posterior angles, which are nearly 
rectangular and bent downward, the margins not flattened, and 
visible from above; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a 
broadly rounded median lobe; base transversely truncate; surface 
densely and very coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow, nearly 
confluent, and the intervals smooth and shining, rather densely 
clothed with short erect inconspicuous hairs. Elytra convex, equal 
in width to pronotum at base, and rectangular at humeral angles; 
sides parallel to near apical third, then obliquely attenuate to the 
tips, which are conjointlj^ obtusely rounded, the lateral margins 
rather strongly serrate posteriorly ; humeri strongly developed ; sur- 
face striato-punctate, the striae on disk feebly impressed and wider 
than the intervals anteriorly, becoming more deeply impressed and 
much narrower toward the apex, the punctures large, round and 
placed close together in the striae on the basal half, but becoming 
much smaller posteriorly, the intervals with a single row of re- 
motely placed small punctures, and with a few short erect hairs. 
Abdomen beneath densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 41 
deeply impressed on the basal segments, but becoming more shallow 
toward the apex, and rather densely clothed with long recumbent 
cinereous hairs, intervals smooth and shining; last segment broadly 
rounded or subtruncate at apex, without a subapical carina. Pros- 
ternum coarsely, densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with long 
recumbent hairs; anterior margin with a very feeble median lobe, 
which is truncate in front ; prosternal process parallel to behind the 
anterior coxal cavities, and broadly rounded at the apex. 
Length, 8.5-10 mm. ; width, 2.75-3.5 mm. 
Described by Jacquelin Duval (1857) from Cuba. Chevrolat 
(1867) records it from the eastern part of the same island from ma- 
terial in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. Gund- 
lach (1891) records collecting it on a flowering shrub at Caimanera, 
Cuba, during July. Kerremans (1906) has placed cubaecola listed 
by Fall ^^ from Key Largo, Florida, and 'pulcherrima by the same 
author^* from Metacumbe Key, Florida as synonyms of cubaecola^ 
but the one listed by Fall as cubaecola is the species described by 
Chevrolat as iiiarginenotata. 
I have been able to examine two specimens of this species from the 
collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, labeled Cuba (Poey 
Coll. No. 348), which agree with the original description, and from 
which the above description was made. (One of these specimens 
has been donated to the U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll.). There are also two 
examples of this species labeled No. 1419 in the Gundlach Museum in 
Habana, and a single example in the British Museum, which have 
not been examined by the writer. 
The species is closely related to confusa Fisher, but is more par- 
allel and subcylindrical, more convex above, pronotum not sulcate at 
base, and the markings on the elytra are more irregular and not ar- 
ranged in two longitudinal rows of distinct round spots. 
ACMAEODERA CONFUSA, new name 
There seems to have been considerable confusion in the identifica- 
tion of this species by Kerremans, since 'pulcherrima and cubaecola 
listed by Fall are two radically different species, but neither one 
is the species described by Jacquelin Duval as cubaecola. Kerre- 
mans probably did not see the true cubaecola from the Antilles, as 
he redescribed and figures specimens from the Fenyes collection from 
Key Largo, Florida, which are identical with the specimens listed by 
Fall as pulcherrima from Metacumbe Key, Florida. For the one 
described and figured by Kerremans as ciibaecola and listed by Fall 
as pulchernma^ I therefore propose the new name confusa. 
>8Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 35. 
'* Idem, p. 16. 
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ACMAEODEKA PULCHERRIMA Jacquelin Duval 
Acmeieodera pulcherrima Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. 
Phys. Polit. et Nat de I'lle de Cuba, Anim. Arctic., 1857 (French Edi- 
tion), pp. 5G-57; (Spanisli Edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 26. — Chevrolat, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 583 (separates p. 159). — 
GuNDLACH, Contribuciou a la Eutom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 
160-167, no. 808.— Fall, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 16.— 
Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1906, pp. 53-54, pi. 11, fig. 3. 
Robust, rather short, strongly triangular, broadly rounded in 
front, more acuminate posteriorly, and rather moderately convex 
above (nearly straight or at most only feebl}^ arcuate beneath, and 
strongly arcuate above when viewed in profile) ; head and pronotum 
aeneous, with a slight cupreous tinge, the latter with an irregular 
reddish-yellow spot, situated on each side along the lateral margin, 
broader posteriorly and not quite reaching to the posterior nor apical 
angles; elytra black, with an aeneous, greenish or cupreous tinge, 
and ornated with numerous small irregular yellow markings, which 
are A^ariable in size and shape, and giving the surface a variegated 
or marbled appearance ; beneath aeneous, with a strong cupreous 
tinge, and more shining than aboA^e. 
Head flat, feebly depressed on the front, and with a distinct longi- 
tudinal carina on the occiput ; surface densely and coarsely punctate, 
the punctures not very deep, smooth in the bottom, and from the cen- 
ter of each arises a short, erect inconspicuous hair, the intervals 
smooth and shining; epistoma broadly arcuately emarginate in front, 
forming an acutely rounded lobe on each side of the emargination ; 
antennae serrate from the fifth point. Pronotum strongly trans- 
verse, and moderately convex, two and one-half times as wide as long, 
distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base, with an 
obsolete longitudinal median sulcus, a narrow transverse depression 
along the anterior margin, broadly interrupted at the middle, and 
on each side along the inner margin of the yellow space, a broad 
obsolete depression, extending to a round deep fovea situated a 
certain distance from the base; sides strongly obliquely expanded 
from the anterior margin to the posterior angles, which are nearly 
rectangular, the margins narroAvly flattened and bent under pos- 
teriorly, and not visible from above except toward the apical angles; 
anterior margin actuately emarginate, Avith an obsolete median lobe; 
base transversely truncate; surface densely and deeply punctate, the 
punctures fine and distinctly separated on the disk, becoming much 
coarser and more or less confluent toward the side, and sparsely 
clothed with short erect inconspicuous hairs, the intervals smooth and 
shining. Elytra convex, slightly wider than pronotum at base, the 
sutural intervals broadly expanded on the basal half, the disk con- 
vex, smooth and shining; humeral angles nearlv rectangular: sides 
^HT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 43 
obliquely attenuate to the apical third, then more arcuately attenuate 
to the tips, which are acute, the lateral margins coarsely serrate 
posteriorly ; humeri strongly developed ; surface striato-punctate, the 
striae on disk feebly impressed on basal region, about as wide as the 
intervals, but becoming more deeply impressed and distinctly nar- 
rower than the intervals toward the apex, the punctures very coarse 
and nearly confluent anteriorly ; intervals smooth and shining, with 
a few fine punctures, from which arises a short recumbent hair. 
Abdomen beneath densely, rather coarsely and regularly punctate, 
and sparsely clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs, intervals 
smooth and shining: last ventral segment broadly rounded at apex, 
and without a subapical carina. Prosternum punctured similar to 
that of the abdomen; anterior margin with a distinct median lobe, 
which is deeply arcuately emarginate in front; prosternal process 
parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, at least two times as 
wide as the cavity, and broadly rounded at the apex. 
Length, 9-12 mm.; widtli, 4.5-5.5 mm. 
This species was described bj' Jacquelin Duval (1857) from Cuba. 
Chevrolat (1867) records it from the central and eastern part of the 
same island, from material in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and 
Chevrolat. Gundlach (1891) records collecting adults on the flowers 
of a shrub at Caimanera and also at the Bay of Guantanamo, Cuba. 
Fall (1899) records three specimens of this species in the collection 
of the United States National Museum from Metacumbe Key, 
Florida, based on identifications made by Linell. These specimens 
are not the species described by Jacquelin Duval as pulcherrhna^ but 
are con.fusa Fisher. Kerremans (1906) records it from Cuba, in the 
collection of the Brussels Museum. 
Specimens have been examined from the following Cuban locali- 
ties. Coll. U. S. Nat, Mus. : One specimen, Santiago (J. M. Espin). 
Coll. Amer, Mus. Nat. Hist.: One specimen, Rio Seco, San Carlos 
Estate, Guantanamo (Chas. T. Ramsden). Coll. British Mus.: One 
specimen, Cuba (Coll. Chevrolat) ; and another one without a lo- 
cality, and simply labeled "' Saunders 74-18." Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila. : Two specimens, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 931). There are also 
two specimens labeled No. 808 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, 
which have not been examined. 
There has been considerable confusion in regard to the identifica- 
tion of this species and cuhaecola, but the two species are distinctly 
different, 'pulcherriina is a very broad, triangular species, with the 
pronotum widest at base, while cuhaecola is narrow, elongate, and 
subcylindrical, the pronotum widest at middle or basal third, the 
sutural mtervals broadly expanded on basal half, and the color mark- 
ings on the elytra are differently arranged. 
44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol.65 
ACMAEODERA WICKHAMI, new species 
Acmaeodera eubaecola Wickham, Canad. Entomol., vol. 27, 1895, p. 295 
(not eubaecola Jacquelin Duval). 
Male. — Rather broadly elongate, feebly triangular, broadly 
rounded in front, strongly acuminate posteriorly and moderately 
convex above (feebly sinuate below and broadly arcuate above when 
viewed in profile) ; head and pronotum aeneous, with a strong cup- 
reous or purplish tinge, the latter with a large, more or less triangu- 
lar yellow spot situated on each side along the lateral margin, broader 
and more elevated posteriorly, not touching the lateral margin, nor 
extending to the anterior or posterior angles; elytra black, with a 
purplish, greenish or bluish tinge, and each elytron ornated with 
yellow markings as follows : A small round spot at humeral angle, a 
transverse one at base near scutellum, a narrow, irregular transverse 
fascia at basal fourth, a similar one at middle, a more arcuate one 
at apical third, and a smaller one near the apex, all of these fasciae 
are more or less interrupted ; beneath aeneous, with a strong cupreous 
or purpureous reflection, and more shining than above. 
Head flat, with a short elevated carina on the occiput; surface 
densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow, more or less 
confluent, and the sides forming a network of polygonal areas, the 
bottom of the punctures smooth and with a short erect hair at the 
middle, the intervals narrow, irregular in shape, smooth and shining 
on the top ; epistoma broadly and deeply arcuately emarginate in 
front, forming a broadly rounded lobe on each side of the emargina- 
tion; antennae serrate from the fifth joint. Pronotum strongly 
transverse and moderately convex, two and one-third times as wide 
as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base, with 
an obsolete impression in front of the scutellum, a narrow trans- 
verse depression along anterior margin, broadly interrupted at the 
middle, and on each side near the inner margin of the yellow spot, 
a deep foveate depression situated a short distance from the base, 
and a broad obsolete depression extending obliquely toward the 
lateral margin ; sides obliquely and feebly arcuately expanded from 
anterior margin to the posterior angles, which are rectangular and 
bent under, the margins narrowly flattened and only visible anteriorly 
from above; anterior margin strongly arcuately emarginate, with 
a feebly rounded median lobe; base transversely truncate; surface 
densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures well separated on the 
disk, but becoming more or less confluent toward the sides, bottom of 
punctures finely granulose and from which arises a short, erect in- 
conspicuous hair, intervals smooth and shining. Elytra strongly 
convex anteriorly, feebly flattened along suture near apex, slightly 
wider than pronotum at base, and rectangular at the humeral angles : 
AK1-. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 45 
sides arcuately expanded behind the humeral angles, then arcuately 
attenuate to the tips (feebly sinuate at posterior coxae), apex rather 
broadly rounded, lateral margins coarsely serrate posteriorly ; humeri 
strongly developed; surface striato-punctate, the striae on disk 
wider than the intervals at the basal region, feebly impressed except 
on the flattened space near apex, where they are more deeply im- 
pressed, the punctures large, deep, and closely placed in the striae, 
the intervals smooth, with a single row of remotely placed fine punc- 
tures, from which arises a very short erect hair, sutural intervals 
broadly expanded at the basal half. Abdomen beneath coarsely and 
densely punctate, the punctures smaller and less impressed on the 
apical segments sparsely clothed with rather long recumbent cinere- 
ous hairs, intervals smooth and shining; last segment subtruncate 
at apex, without a subapical carina. Prosternum punctuation similar 
to that of the abdomen ; anterior margin with a distinct median lobe, 
which is broadly arcuately emarginate in front; prosternal process 
parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, scarcely two times as 
wide as the cavities, and broadly rounded at the apex. 
Length, 8-8.5 mm.; width, 3.5-3.75 mm. 
Type locality. — Eleuthera, Bahamas. 
Type and faratype.—Q-At. No. 26803, U.S.N.M. 
Described from two males collected by H. F. Wickham on the 
island of Eleuthera, one of the Bahamas, between July 9 and 15, 
and is the species recorded by him in the Canadian Entomologist as 
cnhaecola Jacquelin Duval. 
This is one of the subtriangular species, not as broadly triangular 
as cfrmnta and pulcherrima, hut more so than gundlachi P'isher, and 
can be separated from the other species of the genus found in the 
West Indies by the characters given in the key. 
ACMAEODERA GUNDLACHI, new species 
Male. Eather broadly elongate, subcylindrical, broadly rounded 
in front, more strongly attenuate posteriorly, and feebly flattened 
above, nearly straight below and broadly arcuate above when viewed 
in profile, aeneous, with a strong purplish or greenish tinge on the 
pronotum and elytra, the former with an oblong yellow spot on each 
side, which does not attain the base nor apex; each elytron ornated 
with small irregular yellow spots as follows : A rather large irregu- 
lar spot behind the humerus, extending along the inner margin, but 
more or less broken along the lateral margin, a small round spot 
behind the humerus, situated closer to the suture than the lateral 
margin, a rather wide transverse arcuate fascia at middle, extend- 
ing from the lateral margin to middle of disk, then turning obliquely 
forward for a short distance, a narrow transverse fascia at apical 
third, extending nearly to the suture, a narrow oblique one at apical 
46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM voi. 65 
fifth, and a small spot near the apex. Beneath aeneous, with a strongs 
purplish tinge. 
Head nearly flat, with a broad obsolete depression on the front, 
and a very short elevated carina on the occiput ; surface densely and 
coarsely punctate, the punctures rather shallow, and narrowly sepa- 
rated from each other, and from each puncture arises a rather long, 
erect inconspicuous hair, the intervals smooth ; epistoma broadly and 
deeply arcuately emarginate in front, forming an obtusely angulated 
lobe on each side of the emargination ; antennae serrate from the 
fifth joint. Pronotum strongly transverse, moderately convex, two 
time as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, 
widest at base, with a narrow obsolete depression along the anterior 
margin, broadly interrupted at the middle, and with three more or 
less obsolete basal depressions, one median, and one on each side at 
the inner margin of the yellow spot, w^hich is not elevated; sides 
obliquely expanded from anterior margin to posterior angles, which 
are rectangular, the margins very narrowly flattened, and not visible 
posteriorly from above; anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate, 
with a distinct angulated lobe at middle ; base transversely truncate ; 
surface densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures finer and more 
widely separated on the disk, becoming coarser, deeper, and more 
narrowly separated toward the sides, and from each puncture arises 
a long, erect inconspicuous black hair, intervals smooth and shining. 
Eytra moderately convex, slightly flattened on the disk posteriorly, 
slightly wider than pronotum at base ; sides slightly expanded behind 
the humeral angles, feebly sinuate and obliquely attenuate to the apical 
third, then rather strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
conjointly, rather broadly rounded, the lateral margins coarsely 
serrate, the teeth irregular and widely separated; humeri strongly 
developed; surface striato-punctate, the striae impressed toward the 
apex, about as wide as the intervals on the basal region, but becom- 
ing narrower on the flattened apical areas, the punctures large, 
deep, and irregularly placed in the striae, becoming finer and more 
elongate near the apex, the intervals not elevated, smooth, and with 
a single row of distant punctures, from which arises a rather long, 
semierect hair. Abdomen beneath sparsely and rather finely punc- 
tate, the punctures much coarser and more widely separated on the 
basal segment, becoming finer toward the apical segment, and rather 
densely clothed with long semierect cinereous hairs, intervals 
smooth; last segment subtruncate at apex, and without a subapical 
carina. Prosternum coarsely and densely punctate, and sparsely 
pubescent ; anterior margin with a narrow rectangular lobe at middle, 
which is elevated and truncate in front; prosternal process parallel 
to behind the anterior coxal cavities, nearly three times as wide as- 
the cavities, and very broadly rounded at the apex. 
AET. 9 WEST INDIAlSr BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 47 
Length, 8.5 mm. ; width, 3.5 mm. 
Type locality. — Guanica, Porto Rico. 
Other localities. — Anasco, Santa Rita, Tallaboa, Aibonito, and 
Martin Pena, all in Porto Rico. 
Types and paratypes.—Q,dX. No. 26804, U.S.N.M. 
Paratypes also in American Museum Natural History; Carnegie 
Museum ; Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia ; British Museum ; 
Porto Rico Experimental Station at Rio Pedras; and also in the 
collection of G. B. Merrill. 
This species is described from a series of 15 specimens collected 
at the following localities in Porto Rico. The type and paratypes 
A, B, and C, collected at Guanica, April 15, 1914, by G. B. Merrill; 
paratype D, collected at the same locality June 5, 1920, by G. N. 
Wolcott; paratypes E, F, and G, collected at Anasco, September, 
1913, by E. G. Smyth; paratj^pes H and I, collected at Santa Rita, 
July, 1913, by E. G. Smyth; and paratypes J, K, and L, collected 
at Martin Pena, July 10, 1917, by R. T. Cotton. Coll. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist. : Paratype M collected at Aibonito, July 15, 1914, by F. E. 
Watson, and a paratype N collected at Tallaboa, near Ponce, July 23, 
1914, by Harry G. Barber. 
This species is quite variable in size, form and elytral markings. 
Paratypes B, H, I, K, and N, agree very closely with the type in 
size, form and markings ; paratype D is not quite as triangular, more 
flattened above, pronotum more longitudinally sulcate at middle, and 
the elytral markings are not quite as numerous; paratypes E, F, L, 
and M, are slightly smaller, and more parallel and subcylindrical; 
paratypes A, C, G, and J, have the color much darker, and the yellow 
markings are more or less obliterated. 
Genus PSILOPTERA Solier 
Psiloptcm SoLiEK, Ann Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 283-284, 
pi. 11. fig. 13.— Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837-1838, 
Buprestis, pp. 20-77, pis. 5-19. — Lacokdaike, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, 
pp. 27-30. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 
1903, pp. 90-103 ; Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 1910-1911, pp. 1-506, pis. 27-32. 
Lampetis, Dejean, Cat. Coleopt, 2 ed., 1833, p. 76 ; 3 ed., 1836, p. 86.— 
Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 6, 1837, p. 113. 
Head rugose, sometimes feebly depressed, and wider in front 
than on the vertex; front not narrowed by the insertion of the 
antennae; epistoma short, broadly and rather deeply emarginate in 
front; antennal cavities small, triangular, and armed posteriorly by 
a strongly elevated, oblique carina, and situated at some distance 
from the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae moderately long; first 
joint rather short and robust ; second and third very short, globular 
more slender than the first, the third sometimes slightly longer than 
48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.65 
the second ; fourth and fifth elongate about equal in length, the fifth 
sometimes feebly enlarged and angulated at the apex ; sixth to tenth 
moderately dentate on the inner side and subtriangular ; eleventh 
oblong and rounded at apex; the dentate joints armed with pori- 
ferous pores and foveae on both sides of the joints. Eyes large, 
elliptical, strongly convex, and slightly closer to each other on the 
vertex than at the front. Pronotum wider than long, variable in 
shape, base bisinuate, and the surface sometimes with smooth shining 
areas. Scutellum very small and rounded. Elytra very variable, 
base sinuate, sides smooth posteriorly, sometimes dentate, with the 
apex emarginate, bidentate or obliquely truncate. Sternal cavity 
formed by the mesosternum and metasternum ; mesosternum divided, 
the lateral branches long and feebly oblique; metasternum truncate 
in front, only feebly emarginate at middle, and with a narrow 
longitudinal median groove on the disk. Prosternum variable; 
anterior margin truncate, sinuate or lobed ; prosternal process rather 
broad, feebly convex and with a groove along the lateral margins. 
Abdomen with the first segment broadly sulcate at middle. Posterior 
coxae strongly dilated internally, the anterior margin sinuate, and 
the posterior margin more or less emarginate on the interior dilated 
part. Legs feebly robust; anterior and middle femora feebly 
swollen at middle, the posterior ones subcylindrical and feebly 
flattened on both sides; tibiae subcylindrical, the anterior ones 
sometimes feebly arcuate; tarsi depressed, rather broad, the first 
joint of the anterior pair not longer than the second joint. Body 
very variable. 
This is a very large genus and includes nearly 500 described 
species, which are distributed throughout the warmer parts of the 
world, with the exception of Australia and Oceania. Only a few 
species are found in Malaysia, where they are replaced by the genus 
Chi^sodema. Eight species have been found in the West Indies, 
two of which are described in the present paper. Kerremans has 
divides the genus into four subgenera, but all of the West Indian 
species, except fulgida Olivier, belong to the subgenus Lampetis 
Dejean, which is separated from the other subgenera by the pros- 
terum not produced at tlie middle, but with the anterior margin 
truncate, lobed or feebly sinuate; epistoma short, not separated on 
the front by a transverse carina, and not declivous in front, nor con- 
tracted on the sides. A large number of genera have been placed as 
synonyms of this genus by Kerremans, but since their distribution 
do not apply to the fauna covered by the present paper, the citations 
are omitted. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Prosteruuiu produced in front. (Guadeloupe.) fulgida (Olivier). 
Prosternum not produced in front 2. 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 49 
2. Pronotum very rugose, with more or less distinct, longitudinal or transverse 
smooth spaces 3. 
Pronotum without longitudinal or transverse smooth spaces ; surface rather 
densely punctures. (Lesser Antilles.) guildini Castelnau and Gory. 
o. Elytra with a longitudinal lateral groove, which is usually filled with a 
dense pulverulence 4. 
Elytra without a longitudinal groove 5. 
4. Reliefs on pronotum and elytra dark green, the depressions bronzy-green, 
and more or less purplish. (Cuba.) torquata (Dalman). 
Reliefs on pronotum and elytra bi-ownisb-black, with a feeble cupreous tinge, 
and the depressions olive green or aeneous. (Jamaica.) 
var. jamaicensis Fisher. 
5. Pronotum longitudinally sulcate at middle 6. 
Pronotum not longitudinally sulcate at middle 7. 
6. Reliefs on pronotum green or violaceous ; elytra dark green, with a strong 
violaceous tinge, the intervals and striae interrupted by numerous distinct 
aureo-cupreous punctured spaces. (Haiti.) aurifer (Olivier). 
Reliefs pronotum black; elytra more obliquely acuminate posteriorly, aeneo- 
cupreous, sometimes feebly purplish, the intervals and striae not distinctly 
interrupted by irregular transverse punctured spaces. (Haiti.) 
aurata (Saunders). 
7. Pronotum with three distinct smooth spaces ; elytra aeneo-cupreous, some- 
times with a reddish tinge, and with numerous small depressions which 
are densely covered with a white pulverulence; body beneath with the 
median parts fiery red. (Cuba.) straba Chevrolat. 
Pronotum without distinct smooth spaces ; elytra bluish, purplish or rubi- 
nous, and without depressed pulverulent spaces ; body beneath aeneo- 
cupreous, with a slight bluish or purplish tinge. (Bahamas.) 
bahamica Fisher. 
PSILOPTERA (PSILOPTERA) FULGIDA (Olivier) 
Buprestis fulgida (.(liviek, Entomol., vol. 2. gen. 32, 1790, pp. 10-11, pi. 7, 
fig. 69.— Herbst, Nat. Syst. Ins. Kiifer, vol. 9, 1801, pp. 85-87, pi. 142, 
fig. 4. 
Pslloptera fulgida Castelnau and Goby, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, Bu- 
prestis, pp. 24-25, pi. 6, fig. 24. — Fleutiaux and Salle, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
France, ser. 6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 405. (separates p. 55). — Kebbemans, 
Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 1910, pp. 21-22. 
Buprestis viridiaurea Schonherr, Syn. Ins., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1817, p. 215. 
The following is a translation of Olivier's original description : 
Of a brilliant golden green, with a cupreous tinge; elytra striate 
and bidentate. 
It resembles very closely in form and size Buprestis eollaris. 
Antennae aeneous and serrate. Body rugose, and of a brilliant golden 
green color. Prothorax impressed on the upper part ; surface rugose, 
green, with the smooth parts coppery red. Elytra feebly rugose, 
striate, golden green, with the elevations of the striae coppery red; 
apex truncate and bidentate. Body beneath rugose, shining, the 
median parts coppery red and very brilliant. Legs green, with the 
tarsi bluish. 
It is found in Guadeloupe, where it has been collected by the late 
Mr. Badier. In the collection of Gigot D'Orcy. 
50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.65 
Originally described by Olivier (1790) from Guadeloupe, and is 
recorded from the same locality by Fleutiaux and Salle (1890). 
Castelnau and Gory (1837), and also Kerremans (1910) record it 
from Cayenne, French Guiana, without refering to the type locality, 
which they have probably overlooked. No specimens have been seen 
which would apply to the description given for this species. Kerre- 
mans ^^ records a specimen of Psiloptera variolosa Fabricius from 
Guadeloupe in the Paris IMuseiim, which probably is this species. 
PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) GUILDINI Castelnau and Gory 
Psiloptera guildini Castelnau and Goky, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, Bvprestis, 
pp. 41-42, pi. 10, fig. 51. — Kebremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 1910, p. 144. 
Form broadly elongate, attentu'ate and broadly rounded in front, 
more acuminate posteriorly; elytra without marginal grooves; sur- 
face uniformly blue or bluish-green above and beneath; tarsi vio- 
laceous. 
Head nearly flat; occiput with a narrow longitudinal groove; 
surface strongly and veiy irregularly rugose, the elevations broadly 
convex, irregular in size and shape, covering the entire surface, and 
densely, rather coarsely granulose, the depressions coarsely, sparsely 
and irregularly punctate, and from each puncture arises a short, 
erect hair; epistom'a broadly and rather deeply arcuately emargi- 
nate at the middle, with an obtuse tooth on each side of the emar- 
gination. Pronotum about one and three-fourth times as wide as 
long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest along basal 
third; sides strongly obliquely expanded from anterior margin to 
basal third, then ne'arly parallel (feebly sinuate) to the posterior 
angles, which are acute; anterior margin nearly truncate, with only 
an obsolete median lobe; base bisinuate, with a very broad, moder- 
ately rounded median lobe; lateral margins rounded in front and 
feebly crenulate posteriorly ; surface regularly convex, without trans- 
verse or longitudinal elevations, feebly impressed in front of scutel- 
lum, coarsely and irregularly punctate, the punctures deep, and 
becoming somewhat confluent toward the sides; intervals finely 'and 
densely granulose. Scutellum very small, transverse, and finely 
granulose. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, feebly 
expanded behind the humeral angles, which are obtusely angulated. 
par'allel to apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which 
are truncate and feebly emarginate; lateral margins entire, or at 
most, only obsoletely crenulate near humeral angles; surface striato- 
punctate, the striae feebl}' impressed, and the punctures rather 
coarse and distinctly separated, intervals feebly convex and obsolete- 
ly granulose, the striae and intervals are interrupted by numerous 
IB Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 1910, pp. 113-114. 
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ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 51 
small irregular depressions, which are finely, densely rugose, and 
sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous cinereous h'airs, and more 
or less covered with pulverulence of the same color. Abdomen be- 
neath coarsely and irregularly punctate, becoming feebly longitudi- 
nally rugose at the sides, and rather densely clothed with short re- 
cumbent cinereous hairs; first segment feebly longitudinally sulcate 
at middle; last segment at apex, bro'adl}^ rounded in the female, 
substruncate in the male. Prosternum strongly convex, not sulcate 
along the anterior margin, which is truncate, the surface rather 
denseh' and coarsely punctate and sparsely clothed with incon- 
spicuous hairs; prosternal process broad, flat, and sparsely and very 
coarsely punctured 'at middle, with a deep marginal groove, which 
is sparsely, coarsely punctate, and sparsely clothed with a row of 
erect inconspicuous hairs, sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal 
cavities, then abruptly 'attenuate, and deeply arcuately emarginate 
to the apex, which is subtruncate, or feebW rounded. < 
Length, 22-28 mm.; width, 8.5-10.5 mm. 
Castelnau and Gory (1S37) described this species from St. Vin- 
cent, and it seems to be rare in collections. Material has been ex- 
amined from the following localities. Coll. British Mus, : One speci- 
men. Grand Ance, south end, Grenada; one specimen. Mustique 
Island, Grenadines (H. H. Smith) ; and another labeled Antilles, 
Trinidad (Fry Coll. 1905-100). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: One speci- 
men, Grenada, August 2. 1906 (R. D. Amstead, collector. Ballon No. 
800). 
This species is similar in shape to aurata Saunders, but can be 
readily distinguished from any other West Indian species of this 
genus by the uniform blue or bluish-green color above and by the 
absence of longitudinal and transverse smooth spaces on the pro- 
notum. 
PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) TORQUATA (Dalman) 
Bupreslis torquata Dalman, Anal. Ent., 1832, p. 54. — Jacquelin Duval, 
in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, 
Anim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), p. 59; (Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 
1857, p. 27. 
Psiloptera torquata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 
Bupreslis, p. 36, pi. 9, fig. 42. — Chevkolat, Ann. See. Ent. France, ser. 
4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 576 (separates p. 152). — Gundlach, Coutribucion 
a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 159. — Kekremans, Mon. Bupr., 
vol. 5, 1910, pp. 55-56. 
Buprestis aulica Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed. 1833, p. 76 ; 3 ed. 1836, p. 86. 
(No description given.) 
Form broadly elongate, attentuate and broadly rounded in front, 
and more acuminate posteriorly; head dark green; pronotum dark 
green, with two transverse arcuate impressions, which are densely 
covered with a golden-yellow pulverulence, one along the anterior 
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margin, rather broadly interrupted at the middle, the other near the 
base; scutellum bronzy-green; elytra with a longitudinal groove 
along the lateral margins, which is covered with a golden-yellow pul- 
verulence similar to that on the pronotum, the reliefs dark green^ 
and the depressions bronzy green margined with purple; beneath 
olive-green on the median parts, becoming purplish toward the 
sides. 
Head nearly flat ; surface strongly rugose, the reliefs rather broad, 
irregular, and densely granulate, the depressions filled with dense 
whitish pulverulence and sparsely clothed with rather long, erect 
hairs, which are more abundant along the eyes ; epistoma broadly but 
not deeply arcuately emarginate in front, and with an obtuse tooth 
on each side of the emargination. Pronotum one and three-fourths 
times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than behind, widest 
at base; sides broadly arcuately rounded from the anterior margin 
,to near the base, then obliquely expanded to the posterior angles, 
which are acute ; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a feebly 
rounded median lobe; base bisinuate, with a very large rounded me- 
dian lobe; lateral margins more or less crenulate; surface with the 
transverse elevations densely granulose, becoming finely rugose 
toward the sides, and with coarse punctures in the depressions, which 
are covered by the pulverulence. Scutellum transversely oval and 
obsoletely granulated. Elytra wider than pronotum at base, arcu- 
ately expanded behind humeral angles, obsoletely attenuate to be- 
hind the middle, then more strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, 
which are truncate and feebly emarginate; lateral margins coarsely 
crenulate near base, but entire posteriorly; humeral angles broadly 
rounded ; surface striato-punctate, the striae interrupted at the sides 
and base, the punctures coarse and irregularly placed, and sparsely 
clothed with a few short recumbent hairs, the intervals feebly con- 
vex, and intermitted. Abdomen coarsely and sparsely punctate on 
the median parts (posterior margin of punctures not well defined), 
but becoming scabrous on the sides of the basal seg-ment, sparsely 
clothed with long recumbent cinereous hairs on the median parts, 
the pubescence denser and mixed with a whitish pulverence toward 
the sides ; intervals finely and densely granulose ; first segment rather 
broadly and deeply sulcate at middle ; last segment broadly rounded 
at apex. Prosternum transversely concave along anterior margin, 
which is broadly truncate and obsoletely sinuate at middle, the sur- 
face coarsely rugose; prostemal process feebly convex, nearly 
smooth, with a deep marginal groove, which is rather densely punc- 
tate at bottom, and sparsely clothed with rather long erect hairs, the 
sides feebly expanded behind the anterior coxal cavities, then ob- 
liquely attenuate to the apex, which is broadly rounded. 
Length, 16-27 mm. ; width, 6-10 mm. 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 53 
This species was described by Dalman (1832) from Cuba, Chev- 
rolat (1867) records it from all parts of Cuba, in the collections of 
Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. Gundlach (1891) records it as 
being distributed throughout the entire island of Cuba, and reports 
it taken a number of times on the stems of the " Icaco." Kerremans 
(1910) records it from Cuba and Jamaica, but the latter locality 
applies to the variety described in the present paper. 
Material has been examined from the following localities: Coll. 
Amer, Mus. Nat. Hist. : Four specimens, labeled Santiago de Cuba, 
without additional data; one specimen, Santiago, Cuba, September 
6, 1903 (Wirt Robinson) ; one specimen, Cienfuegos, Cuba (Dr. 
Eugenio Cuesta) ; and another one from Aguadores, on the coast 
near Santiago de Cuba, August 25, 1908 (Chas. T. Ramsden). Coll. 
Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila. : Two specimens, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 12). 
Coll. British Museum: One specimen, Cuba (Coll. Chevrolat) ; and 
another one labeled simply Cuba. Coll. Carnegie Mus. : One speci- 
men, Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, August 30, 1912. Coll. S. C. 
Brimer : One specimen, Cienaga de Zapata, Cuba, July 9, 1920. Coll. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. : Six specimens from Cayamas, Cuba, collected be- 
tween December and May bj^ E. A. Schwarz. There are also two 
specimens of this species labeled No. 2 in the Gundlach Museum in 
Habana, which have not been examined. 
This seems to be the most common species of this genus found in 
the West Indies, and can be separated from all the other species 
from that region, except the variety jamaicensis, by the elytra hav- 
ing a distinct longitudinal groove along the lateral margins, which 
is usually filled with a dense yellowish pulverulence. From the 
variety it can be separated by the color. 
PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) TORQUATA, var. JAMAICENSIS, new variety 
Similar in shape and structure to torguafa, but differs from it in 
the color. Elevations above brownish-black, with a feeble cupre- 
ous tinge when viewed in certain lights, and the depressed areas 
olive-green or aeneous; beneath olivaceous, with a strong cupreous 
reflection. 
Length, 18-30 mm. ; vddth, 6.5-12 mm. 
Type locality. — Pallisadoes, Kingston, Jamaica. 
Type, allotype, and paratypes. — Carnegie Museum. 
Paratypes.— Cat. No. 26805, U.S.N.M, One paratype in British 
Museum, 
This variety described from 9 specimens, four males and four 
females received the Carnegie Museum, which were collected at the 
type locality October 1898, and one male from the British Museum 
labeled Jamaica, without a definite locality. 
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After examining a large series of specimens from both Cuba and 
Jamaica, it seems advisable to separate the form found in Jamaica 
from the typical torquata^ and give it a new varietal name. 
PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) AURIFEK (Olivier) 
Buprestis aurifer Olivieu, Entoniol., vol. 2, geu. 32, 1790, pp. 13-14, pi. 9, 
fig. 95.— Herbst, Nat. Syst. Ins. Kiifer, vol. 9, 1801, p. 185, pi. 140, fig. 7. 
Bupreistis aurifera Fabiucius, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, 1801, p. 191. — Schon- 
HERR, Syn. Ins., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1817, p. 219. — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon 
de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 
1857 (French Edition), p. 58; (Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 27. 
Psiloptera aurifera Chevrolat, Ann. Soe. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 
pp. 575-576 (separates pp. 151-152). — Gundlach, Contribucion a la 
Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 158-159. 
Psiloptera amethy. ■stipes Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 
Buprestis, p. 37, pi. 9, fig. 43. 
Psiloptera tourtembergi Mannerheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 
10, No. 8, 1837, pp. 49-50.— Dejean, Cat. Coleopt, 2 ed. 1833, p. 76; 
3 ed., 1836, p. 86. 
Psiloptera aurifer Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 1910, pp. 57-58. 
Form broadly elongate, attenuate and broadly rounded in front, 
and more acuminate posteriorly; head golden-green; pronotum 
dark green, with a strong purplish tinge , the depressions golden- 
green and arranged as follows: A longitudinal median one, broader 
posteriorly and feebly interrupted in front of middle, a rather 
broad one on each side along anterior margin, a narrow one along 
lateral margin but not reaching to the posterior angles, and a 
transversely oblique one behind the middle; scutellum and elytra 
dark green, with a strong purplish tinge, the latter without marginal 
grooves, but with numerous irregular transverse impressions, which 
are aureo-cupreous ; beneath aeneo-viridis, with the reliefs of a 
beautiful violaceous color. 
Head nearly flat, surface strongly, irregularly rugose on the me- 
dian parts, the elevations broadly convex, smooth and shining on 
top, there is a rather wide even area along the margin of the eyes, 
which is densely, coarsely punctate, surface also densely clothed with 
long semi-erect hairs, and usually covered with a dense pale yellow 
pulverulence; epistoma broadly, but not deeply arcuately emargi- 
nate in front, and with an obtuse tooth on each side of the emargi- 
nation. Pronotum one and three-fourths times as wide as long, 
slightly narrower in front than behind, middle and base about 
equal in width; sides feebly arcuately rounded from anterior mar- 
gin to near base, then obliquely expanded to the posterior angles, 
which are acute; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a 
broadly rounded median lobe; base feebly bisinuate, with the me- 
dian lobe very broad and feebly rounded; lateral margins strongly 
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Aiix. WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 55 
creniilcite to near the posterior angles; surface with the reliefs very 
finely granulose, with a few coarse irregularly placed punctures, the 
depressions coarsely and densely punctate, each puncture with a 
small round elevation, in the middle of which arises a short incon- 
spicuous hair, the depressions are also usually covered with a paie 
yellow pulverulence. Scutellum transverse, more or less depressed 
at middle, and the surface densely granulose. Elj^tra wider than 
pronotum at base, strongly arcuately expanded behind the humeral 
angles, nearly parallel to near the apical third, then arcuately at- 
tenuate to the tips, which are truncate, and very feebly sinuate or 
emarginate; lateral margins very coarsely crenulate on the basal 
expanded parts, and entire posteriorly; humeral angles broadly 
rounded; surfaces striato-punctate, the striae feebly impressed, and 
the punctures coarse, shallow and remotely placed, intervals feebly 
convex and finely granulose, the striae and intervals interrupted by 
numerous transverse irregular depressions, which are coarsely and 
densely punctate, rather densely clothed with short inconspicuous 
hairs, and usually covered with a pulverulence similar to that on 
the pronotum. Abdomen beneath with numerous irregular flattened 
elevations, the depressions denselj'^, coarsely punctate, somewhat ru- 
gose, and becoming stronglj^ scabrous on the sides of the basal seg- 
ment, the depressions are also rather densely clothed with long re- 
cumbent cinereous hairs, and the punctuation usually concealed by 
the dense pulverulence; first segment broadly and rather deeply 
longitudinally sulcate at middle; last segment at apex broadly 
rounded in female, and subtruncate and feebly sinuate in the male. 
Prosternum not transversely concave along anterior margin, which 
is truncate or very feebly emarginate at middle; surface sparsely 
and very coarsely punctate ; prosternal process broad, feebly convex, 
smooth at middle, with a deep marginal groove, which is rather 
densely punctate and sparsely clothed with a row of long erect cine- 
reous hairs, sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then 
strongly attenuate, and arcuately emarginate to the apex, which is 
ver}7 broadly rounded. 
Length, 17-27 mm. ; width, 6-llmm. 
Originally described by Olivier (1790) from a specimen which 
he believed was found at Cayenne, Guiana, and this locality was 
quoted by all of the older writers. The same species was also de- 
scribed from Haiti by Castelnau and Gory (1837) under the name 
amethysti'pes. Mannerheim (1837) described a species from Santo 
Domingo under the name lourtembergi and recorded it from 
Cephalantho salicifoUa. Kerremans has placed this species as a 
synonym of torquata Dalman, but it is certainly not that species, 
but should be placed as a synonym of aurifer Olivier. Jacquelin 
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Duval (1857) records it from Santo Domingo and Cuba. Chevrolat 
(1867) also records it from Santo Domingo, in the collection of 
Chevrolat, and from Cuba in the collection of Dejean. Gundlach 
(1891) states that it is very doubtful from Cuba, but that it is 
found in Santo Domingo. Kerremans (1910) records it from Port 
au Prince, Haiti, in the Paris Museum, Brussels Museum, and tlie 
collections of Thery and Kerremans. This species is without any 
doubt confined to Santo Domingo, and the records given by Chev- 
rolat and Jacquelin Duval of a specimen in the Dejean collection 
from Cuba, probably is based on aulica, which is a synonym of 
torquata^ as Dejean never recorded a specimen in his collection 
under the name of aurifer. 
Specimens have been examined from the following localities. 
Coll. British Mus. ; One specimen, Antilles, Santo Domingo (Fry 
Coll.) ; one specimen St. Domingo (Parry, Saunders 74-18) ; and 
one specimen. Port au Prince, Haiti. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : 
One specimen labeled simply Haiti (E. Lemke). Coll. U. S. Nat. 
Mus.: Two specimens. Port au Prince, Haiti (C. Bencomo, and 
W. L. Rockwell) . 
PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) AURATA (Saunders) 
Psiloptera mirifera Castelnau and Gory, Mon, Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 
Buprestis, p. 35, pi. 9, fig. 41. (Name preoccupied.) 
Psiloptera aurata Saunders, Catal. Bupr., 1871, p. 23. — Kerremans, Mon. 
Bupr,, vol. 5, 1910, pp. 56-57. 
Form broadly elongate, attenuate and broadly rounded in front, 
and more acuminate posteriorly; head golden-green; pronotum 
black, with a slight bluish tinge, the depressions golden-green and 
arranged as follows : A deep longitudinal groove at middle, broader 
posteriorly and extending from the anterior margin to near the 
scutellum, a rather broad depression on each side along the anterior 
margin, a similar one along the lateral margin, becoming broader 
posteriorly, extending obliquely over the postero-lateral region, and 
forming two smooth oblique elevations on the disk; scutellum 
bluish-black ; elytra without marginal grooves, aeneo-cupreous, some- 
times becoming brownish or reddish-cupreous, and the intervals 
more or less bluish-black; beneath bluish-black, with a strong 
greenish or violaceous tinge, and the depressions aeneo-viridis. 
Head nearly flat; surface strongly, irregularly rugose on the 
median parts, the elevations broadly convex, smooth and shining on 
the top, there is a rather wide area along the margin of the eyes, 
which is densely, coarsely punctate, densely clothed with long semi- 
erect hairs, and usually covered with a dense yellow pulverulence ; 
epistoma broadly, but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front, and 
with an obtuse tooth on each side of the emargination. Pronotum 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 57 
one and three-fourths times as wide as long, narrower in front than 
behind, middle and base about equal in width; sides broadly arcu- 
ately rounded from anterior margin to near base, then ieebly ob- 
liquely expanded to the posterior angles, which are acute; anterior 
margin feebly arcuately emarginate, with the median lobe broadly 
rounded; base feebly bisinuate, with a very broad, feebly rounded 
median lobe ; lateral margins very coarsely and irregularly crenulate 
to near the posterior angles; surface with the reliefs finely and 
densely granulose, and with a few very coarse irregularly placed 
punctures; the depressions coarsely and densely punctate, each 
puncture with a small round elevation, in the middle of which arises 
a short inconsj)icuous hair, the depressions are also usually covered 
with a dense pale yellow jjulverulence, which obscures the punctua- 
tion. Scutellum transverse and denselj'^ granulose. Elytra slightly 
wider than pronotum at base, arcuately expanded behind the humeral 
angles, which are broadly rounded, parallel to just behind the mid- 
dle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are truncate and 
feebly sinuate or emarginate; lateral margins very coarsely and 
irregularly crenulate on the expanded basai parts, and entire pos- 
teriorly; surface striato-punctate, the striae feebly impressed, and 
the punctures dense and irregularly placed, the intervals obsoletely 
granulose and interrupted by numerous punctured areas, and becom- 
ing more or less rugose toward the sides. Abdomen beneath with 
numerous irregular flattened elevations, and the depressions densely, 
coarsely punctate, somewhat rugose, and becoming strongly scabrous 
on the sides of the basal segments, the depressions are also rather 
densely clothed with long recumbent cinerous hairs, and covered 
with a pale pulverulence ; first segment broadly longitudinally sulcate 
at middle ; last segment narrowly flattened at apex, broadly rounded 
in the female and subtruncate and feebly sinuate in the male. Pros- 
ternum not transversely concave along anterior margin, which is 
feebly arcuately emarginate at the middle, and forming an obtuse 
lobe on each side; surface sparsely and very coarsely punctate, and 
sparsely clothed with long recumbent hairs; prosternal process broad, 
feebly convex, and smooth at middle, with a deep marginal groove, 
which is rather densely punctate and sparsely clothed with a row of 
long erect cinereous hairs, sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal 
cavities, then strongly attenuate and arcuately emarginate to the 
apex, which is very broadly rounded. 
Length, 17-25 mm.; width, 6-iO mm. 
Castelnau and Gory (1837) originally described this species from 
Santo Domingo under the name aurifera. This name being pre- 
occupied by a species described by Oliver (1790) from Cayenne, 
French Guiana, Saunders (1871) proposed the name aurata. Ker- 
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remans (1910) records specimens from Haiti in the Paris Museum, 
Brussels Museum, and in the collection of Thery. 
Specimens have been examined from the following localities, and 
from which the above description was made. Coll. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist. : One specimen, labeled Haiti, without any definite local- 
ity. Coll. Mus, Comp. Zool. : One specimen. Grand liiviere, Haiti 
(W. M. Mann). Coll. British Mus.: One specimen, labeled Haiti 
(H. Deyrolle) ; and another, Haiti (Oberthur). U. S. Nat. Mus, : 
One specimen. Port au Prince, Haiti (Fr}^ Coll. 1905-100) (Donated 
by the British Museum). 
This species is closely allied to aurlfer Olivier, but is more ob- 
liquel}- acuminate posteriorly, the reliefs on the pronotum are black, 
and not interrupted transversely by an oblique depression, the elytra 
aeneo-cupreous, and the striae and intervals not as distinctly inter- 
rupted by irregular transverse punctured areas. 
PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) STRABA Chevrolat 
Psiloptera straba Chevrolat, Ann. Ent. Soc. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 
p. 575 (separates p, 151). — Gundlach, Contribucion h la Entoni. Cuba, 
vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 158, no. 1257. — Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 
1910, pp. 58-59. 
Form rather narrowly elongate, attenuate and broadly rounded in 
front, and strong^ acuminate posteriorly; elytra without marginal 
grooves; above uniformly aeneo-cupreous, sometimes Avith a strong 
reddish tinge, the elytra ornated with numerous small depressions, 
which are densely covered with a whitish pulverulence ; beneath 
aeneo-brunneus, with the median parts of a brilliant reddish-cupre- 
ous color. 
Head feebly convex; occiput with a narrow longitudinal groove 
at the middle; surface strongly and very irregularlj- rugose, the ele- 
vations broadly convex, irregular in shape and size, covering the en- 
tire surface, and obsoletely granulose on the top, the depressions 
sparsel}^, coarsel}- and irregularly punctate, each puncture with a 
small round elevation at the middle, from which arises a rather long 
semi-erect cinereous hair; epistoma broadly and deeply arcuately 
emarginate at middle, the margin truncate on each side of the emar- 
gination. Pronotum one and one-half times as wide as long, slightly 
narrower in front than behind, widest at the middle; sides strongly 
arcuately rounded from the anterior margin to near base, then paral- 
lel or feebly obliquely expanded to the posterior angles, which are 
acute: anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate, with an obso- 
lete median lobe: base bisinuate, with a very broad moderately round- 
ed lobe at middle; lateral margins rounded in front, and more or 
less crenulate posteriorly; surface more or less transversely concave 
at basal third, the concavity somewhat interrupted at the middle, and 
AKT. 9 V/EST INDIAIST BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 59 
with three broad smooth spaces arranged transversely, one at tlie 
middle, and one on each side, balance of surface coarsely, irregularly, 
and rather densely punctate, and usually covered with a white pul- 
verulence. Scutellum small, slightly transverse and densely granu- 
lose. Elytra distinctly Avider than pronotum at base, feebly ex- 
panded behind the humeral angles, which are broadly rounded, paral- 
lel to middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are truncate, 
and more or less deeply emarginate; lateral margins entire, or at the 
most, only obsoletel}^ crenulate near humeral angles; surface striato- 
punctate, the striae more strongly impressed toward apex, the punc- 
tures coarse, well separated on basal parts, but becoming somewhat 
confluent posteriorly, intervals wide and nearly flat anteriorly, but 
becoming narrower and strongly convex toward the apex, and more 
or less transversely rugose laterally, the striae and intervals are in- 
terrupted by numerous small round depressions, irregularly situated, 
sparsely clothed with very short hairs, and densely covered with a 
white pulverulence. Abdomen beneath sparsely and irregularly punc- 
tate, the punctures coarse and more irregular in shape toward the 
sides, and feebly scabrous on the sides of the basal segment, rather 
densely but irregularly clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs 
at the sides of the segments; first segment broadly longitudinally 
concave; last segment at apex broadly rounded in the female, sub- 
truncate and feebly sinuate in the male. Prosternum feebly convex, 
sometimes with the anterior margin feebly elevated, truncate or 
slightly arcuately emarginate at middle, and with an obsolete lobe 
on eacli side ; surface coarsely, rather densely punctate, and sparsely 
clothed with short semi-erect hairs; prosternal process broad, flat, 
and smooth at middle, with a deep marginal groove, which is coarsely, 
irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with a row of short hairs, 
sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then strongly 
attenuate and feebly arcuately emarginate to the apex, which is 
broadly rounded. 
Length, 22-32 mm. ; width, 7-10.5 mm. 
Described by Chevrolat (1867) from Cuba, where he records it 
as living on a species of pine in the western part of the island, 
specimens in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. 
Gundlach (1891) records it from Vuelta-Abaja, Cuba, where it was 
found on the leaves of a pine. I have seen specimens from the fol- 
lowing localities. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : One specimen, San 
Francisco, Isle of Pines, July 1, 1921, on Ficus elastica (Hall and 
Ballou) ; two specimens, 14 kilometers north of Vinales, Cuba, 
September 20, 1913, on pine, where most of the pines had been, 
destroyed three years previously by a cyclone (C. W. Leng and 
F. E. Lutz). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: One specimen, from Guan- 
tanomo. Cuba, March 1913 (Chas. T. Ramsden) (donated by the 
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Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.). CoK. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. : One speci- 
men, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 1716). Coll. Carnegie Mus.: One speci- 
men, Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, July 31, 1912. There is a single 
example of this species labeled No. 1257 in the Gundlach Museum in 
Habana, and another in the British Museum which have not been 
examined. 
PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) BAHAMICA, new species 
Oyascutus carolinensis Wickham (not Horn), Canad. Eutomol., vol. 27, 
1895, p. 295. 
Male. — Form rather broadly elongate, attenuate and broadly 
rounded in front, and more acuminate posteriorly; head cupreous; 
pronotum and elytra with the reliefs shining, bluish, purplish, cupre- 
ous or rubinous when viewed in different lights, the depressions 
olivaceous or aeneo-cupreous ; elytra without marginal grooves; be- 
neath aeneo-cupreous, with a slight bluish or purplish tinge. 
Head nearly flat, occiput with a rather narrow smooth longitudinal 
carina at middle ; surface strongly, irregularly rugose on the median 
parts, the elevations broadly convex, smooth and shining on the top, 
and very irregular in shape, there is a rather wide area along the mar- 
gin of the eyes, which is densely and rather finely punctate, and 
densely clothed with long, semierect cinereous hairs, the punctures 
between the rugae deep, coarse, and from each one arises a rather 
long recumbent hair; epistoma broadly, but not deeply arcuately 
emarginate at the middle, and with an obtuse tooth on each side of 
the emargination. Pronotum one and three-fourths times as wide as 
long, slightly narrower in front than behind, middle and base about 
equal in width ; sides feebly arcuately rounded from anterior margin 
to near base, then very feebly obliquely expanded to the posterior 
angles, which are acute; anterior margin feebly arcuately emargi- 
nate, with an obsolete median lobe; base bisinuate, with the median 
lobe very bi-oad and feebly rounded; lateral margins coarsely and 
irregularly crenulate, except at the extreme posterior angles, where 
they are smooth and shining ; disk with a broad, rather deep depres- 
sion in front of the scutellum, in the bottom of which are two deep 
foveae; surface rather uneven, with a tendency of forming trans- 
verse smooth spaces, but these are more or less punctured and not 
distinct, coarsely and sparsely punctate, the punctures very irregu- 
larly situated, becoming somewhat confluent along anterior and 
lateral margins, and sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs. 
Scutellum transverse, and finely granulose. Elytra slightly wider 
than pronotum at base, feebly arcuately expanded behind the humeral 
angles, which are broadly rounded, nearly parallel to behind the 
middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are truncate and 
feebly emarginate ; lateral margins coarsely and irregularly crenulate 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 61 
on the expanded basal parts, and entire posteriorly; surface striato- 
punctate, the striae feebly impressed and the punctures rather coarse 
anteriorly, but becoming finer toward the apex, intervals nearly flat 
on the basal region, but becoming more convex posteriorly, rather 
rugose toward the sides, and interrupted by numerous inconspicuous 
punctured spaces, and clothed with a few very short inconspicuous 
hairs. Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather densely punctate, the 
punctures becoming finer, denser and somewhat crenulate toward the 
sides, finely scabrous at the sides of basal segment, and rather densely 
clothed with moderately long recumbent hairs ; first segment broadly 
longitudinally sulcate at the middle; last segment subtruncate and 
feebly sinuate at apex. Prosternum moderately convex, the anterior 
margin obsoletely arcuately emarginate in the middle, and forming 
an obsolete lobe on each side; surface sparsely, coarsely, and irregu- 
larly punctate, and somewhat rugose at the sides ; prosternal process 
moderately broad, nearly flat, and smooth at the middle, with a deep 
marginal groove, which is coarsely punctate and sparsely clothed 
with a row of long hairs, sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal 
cavities, then strongly attenuate and feebly arcuately emarginate to 
the apex, which is obtusely rounded. Posterior coxae with an obtuse 
tooth on the posterior margin, situated closer to the legs than the 
lateral margin. 
Feinale. — Similar to the male but slightly more robust, and the 
last abdominal segment broadly rounded at apex. 
Length, 20-22 mm. ; width, 6.5-8 mm. 
Tyye locality. — Eleuthera, Bahamas. 
Type and allotype.— Q^^t. No. 26806, U.S.N.M. 
Paratype. — Coll. British Museum. 
This species was described from three specimens, two males and 
one female, collected at the type locality, July 9, by Prof. H. F. 
Wicldiam. 
It is allied to aurafa Saunders and aurifer Olivier, but the pro- 
notum not longitudinally sulcate at middle, and the transverse 
smooth spaces on disk not distinctly marked. This is the species 
recorded by Prof. H. F. Wickham in the Canadian Entomologist as 
Gyascutus carolinensis Horn. 
Genus EUCHROMA Solier 
Euchroma Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1. vol. 2, 1833, pp. 284-286, 
pi. 11, fig. 14. — Castelnau and Goey, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, pp. 5-7, 
pi. 1. — Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 20-21. — Kerremans, 
Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 1903, pp. 67-68; Mon. 
Biipr., vol. 3, 1908, pp. 245-250. 
Head nearly flat or feebly convex, distinctly wider in front than 
at vertex; front longitudinally grooved, but not narrowed by the 
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insertion of the antennae; epistoma rather elongate and broadly 
emarginate in front; antennal cavities small, rounded, and situated 
a short distance from the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae short 
and robust; first joint rather short and enlarged at apex; second very 
short and obconical ; third triangular and as long as the first ; fourth 
to tenth triangular (outer joints wider than long), strongly dentate 
on the inner side, and armed with poriferous pores (which are more 
or less pubescent) on both sides of the joints; the eleventh joint 
emarginate at the apex. Eyes large, elliptical, strongly convex, 
and much closer to each other on the vertex than at the front. Pro- 
notum wider than long, regularly convex, and without a median 
carina or sulcus. Scutellum small, suboval, and narrower in front 
than behind. Elytra elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly; base 
sinuate and the lateral margins entire. Sternal cavity formed by the 
mesosternum and metasternum; mesosternum divided, the laterax 
branches long and feeblj^ oblique; metasternum truncate in front, 
with a feeble arcuate emargination at the middle, and the surface 
broadly concave. Prosternum wide, strongly convex, with the an- 
terior margin arcuately emarginate at middle; prosternal process 
broad, broadly flattened, with the sides declivous. Posterior coxae 
strongly dilated internally ; anterior margin sinuate ; posterior mar- 
gin strongly oblique. Legs robust; femora subc3dindrical, flattened, 
and feebly swollen at middle; tibiae cylindrical, feebly expanded at 
apex ; tarsi depressed and rather broad, the first joint of the posterior 
pair a little longer than the following joint. Body elongate, very 
robust and rather strongly attenuate posteriorly. 
This genus includes some of the largest Buprestids, and is very 
common throughout the Neotropical Region. Only one species is 
recognized, which is separated into a number of varieties according 
to the color and geographical distribution. 
EUCHKOMA GIGANTEA, var. HARPERI Sharp 
Euchroma (fit/anten, var. harpcri Sharp, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1881, 
pp. 289. 293-294.— KEUKEAtANs, Mon. Bupr., vol. 3, 1908, p. 249. 
Euchi-oma gignntea Fleutiaux and SALi.fi, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, 
vol. 9. 1890, p. 405 (separates p. 55). 
Male. — Form very large, robust, and moderately convex; above 
dark purplish-black to dark green, according to the direction in 
which the specimen is viewed; pronotum without discal spaces; be- 
neath of the same color as above. 
Head feebly convex; front with a broad, shallow longitudinal 
groove, which is interrupted on the vertex; occiput narrowly longi- 
tudinally sulcate, the sulcus terminating in a rather deep fovea on 
the top of the vertex ; surface sparsely and finely punctate, the punc- 
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tures irregularly placed and becoming denser along the eyes, the 
intervals densely and obsoletely punctate ; epistoma broadly arcuately, 
but feebly emarginate at middle, with a rather large obtuse tooth on 
each side of the emargination. Pronotum one and two-third times 
as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest 
near the middle: sides broadly arcuately rounded, the lateral mar- 
gins strongly elevated posteriorly but becoming obsolete near the 
anterior margin, which is broadly arcuatel}^ emarginate ; base feebly 
bisinuate, and the posterior angles obtusely angulated; surface regu- 
larly convex, polished and shining, densely and obsoletely punctate, 
with a number of deeper and larger punctures intermixed, the large 
punctures very sparse on the disk, but becoming denser toward the 
margins. Scutellum smooth. Elytra wider than pronotum at base, 
broadly rounded behind the humeral angles, strongly sinuate at 
the posterior coxae, behind which it is arcuatel}^ expanded to the 
apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are narrowly 
and arcuately emarginate; each elytron with four more or less dis- 
tinct longitudinal costae, and the intervals covered with vermicular 
reliefs. Abdomen beneath smooth and shining, with a few obsolete 
punctures, which are more abundant along the anterior margins 
of the segments; first segment feebly con\'ex, without a median de- 
pression; fifth segment longer than the preceding one, and broadly, 
deeply, and angularly emarginate at the middle; last segment elon- 
gate, rather acuminate at apex, and very deeply and broadly de- 
pressed on each side of the median longitudinal elevation. Proster- 
num strongly convex, and abruptly declivous along the anterior 
margin, which is feebl}^ arcuately emarginate at middle, and form- 
ing an obsolete lobe on each side of the emargination; prosternal 
process with the sides feebly dilated behind the anterior coxal cavi- 
ties, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is obtusely rounded; 
surface densely and rather finely puncture, and densely clothed 
along the middle with a fine, erect pale pubescence (more or less 
rubbed off in some specimens), this is continued along the middle 
of the metasternum, where it diverges into two patches, which con- 
tinue along the inner margin of the hind coxae and hind margin of 
the jDosterior femora. 
Female. — Differs from the male in being nearl} glabrous on the 
underside, the fifth ventral segment elongate, more than two times 
as long as the preceding one, strongly attenuate to the, apex, which 
is feebly, broadly arcuately emarginate, and with the last segment 
only feebly visible, densely punctured, and with a small notch at the 
apex. 
Length, 60-70 mm. ; width, 25-28 mm. 
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This variety was described by Sharp (1881) from Georgetown. 
British Guiana, and its distribution extends from the type locality 
northward into the Antilles. Kerremans (1908) records it as dis- 
tributed throughout all the Antilles, and Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) 
record gigantea Linnaeus from Guadeloupe, which probably refers 
to this variety. 
The following West Indian material has been examined: Coll. 
British Mus. : Two specimens, one labeled Guadeloupe (Tarnier) 
and the other Cuba (Heyne). 
This form can be separated from the other varieties of this species 
by the uniformly dark color and the almost entirely absence of the 
discoidal spaces on the pronotum. 
Genus PELECOPSELAPHUS Solier 
Pelecopselaphus Solier, Ann. Soc, Ent France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 
286-287, pi. 11, fig. 15.— Castelnau and Gouy, Men. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, 
Buprestis, pp. 152-155, pis. 37-38. — Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, 
p. 25. — Kerremans, Wytsmau's Gen. lusectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 1903, 
p. 58; Mon. Bupr., vol. 3, 1908, pp. 250-262, pi. 1. 
Head distinctly and broadly depressed on front, and narrowly 
grooved on the occiput; front not narrowed by the insertion of the 
antennae, the sides obliquely converging to the vertex ; epistoma ar- 
cuateiy emarginate in front, with the lateral angles of the emargina- 
tion obtusely rounded ; antennal cavities large, triangular, margined 
posteriorly by an elevated arcuate carina, and situated a short dis- 
tance from the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae short; first joint 
elongate and moderately clavate ; second short and subglobular ; third 
two times as long as the second, and strongly expanded at apex ; the 
following joints robust, wider than long, strongly dentate on the 
inner side, and both sides of the serrate joints armed with poriferous 
pores and foveae. Eyes large, elliptical, strongly convex, and much 
closer to each other on the vertex than at the front. Pronotum dis- 
tinctly wider than long, narrower in front than behind, feebly con- 
vex, more or less sulcate on the disk, and declivous at the sides; an- 
terior margin bisinuate, with the median lobe broadly rounded ; base 
bisinuate, with a broadly rounded median lobe; sides obliquely ex- 
panded anteriorly, and broadly rounded posteriorly, the lateral mar- 
gins smooth, sharply elevated, extending forward to the apical angles, 
where they are arcuately connected to the anterior margin. Scutel- 
lum small, wider than long, and subquadrangular. Elytra elongate, 
feebly lobed at base; sides arcuately attenuate to the apex, which is 
acuminate, the lateral margins strongly serrate posteriorly. Sternal 
cavity formed by the mesosternum and metasternum; mesosternum 
divided, the lateral branches rather short and broad; metasternum 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE — FISHER 65 
truncate in front, with an arcuate emargination at the middle, and 
with a narrow longitudinal groove on the disk. Prosternum wide, 
and feebly convex ; anterior margin truncate or arcuately emarginate, 
with the margin narrowly elevated; prosternal process very broad, 
flat or feebly convex, and not sulcate at the middle. Posterior coxae 
dilated internally; anterior and posterior margins sinuate. Legs 
slightly robust ; anterior and middle femora feebly swollen at middle, 
the posterior pair subcylindrical, and flattened on both sides; an- 
terior tibiae strongly carinate on the outer margin ; tarsi compressed, 
the first joint of the posterior pair as long as the following two joints 
united. Body elongate, navicular, and acuminate at apex. 
This is a small genus containing about nine described species, all 
of which are distributed from Mexico to South America, with the ex- 
ception of one unrecognizable species, which has been recorded from 
the Antilles. 
PELECOPSELAPHUS STRICTUS (Linnaeus) 
Buprestis stricta Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10 ed., 1758, p. 409, no, 4; Syst. 
Nat., 12 ed., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1767, p. 659, no. 4. — Gmeun, Linnaeus, Syst. 
Nat., 13 ed., vol. 1, pt. 4, 1788, p. 1929. 
Pelecopcephalus stricta Hope, Coleopterist's Manual, vol. 3, 1840, p. 52. 
Pelecopselaphus stricta Saunders, Catal. Bupr., 1871, p. 19. 
Pelecopselnphus strictus Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 3, 1908, p. 2G2. — 
Leng and Mutchleb, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, vol. 37, 1917, p. 
205. 
The following is a copy of the very short original description 
given by Linnaeus: 
B. elytris serratis siilcatis, tibiis angulatis, abdomine glabro. Habitat in 
Indlis. 
Saunders (1871) lists the species from Brazil, Leng and Mutch- 
ler (1917) from the Antilles, and Kerremans (1908) records it from 
South America and the Antilles, saying that he has not seen the 
species, and also that it is the only Linnean species which he has not 
examined. Hope (1840) says that it is probably a Pelecopcephalus 
of Serville, and that Gmelin mentions the locality South America, 
as well as India, but he regards it as belonging to the former. 
Linnaeus (1758) in the original description gives "Indiis" as the 
locality, which may refer to either the East or West Indies, and not 
to India as stated by Gmelin. 
The species is practically unknown, is unrecognizable from the 
short description, and the locality is also very questionable. It 
probably is a South American species and does not belong to the 
West Indian fauna, but is included in the present paper, since it 
has been recorded in the literature from the Antilles. 
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Genus CHRYSESTHES Solier 
Chrysesthes Soliek, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 290-201, 
pi. 11, fig. 17.— Lacokdaike, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 25-26.— KiiK- 
BEMANs, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 1903, pp. 58-59; 
Men. Bupr., vol. 3, 1908, pp. 262-270. 
Head feebly depressed, distinctly wider in front that at vertex; 
front not narrowed by the insertion of the antennae, and sometimes 
longitudinally grooved; epistoma short and emarginate in front: 
antennal cavities small, rounded, margined posteriorly by an ele- 
vated carina, and situated near the inner margin of the eyes. xVn- 
tennae short; first joint elongate, and strongly clavate; second very 
short and globular; third elongate, shorter than the first, subcylin- 
drical, and feebly exp'anded at apex; following joints triangular, 
wider than long, robust, strongly dentate on the inner side, and 
the serrate joints armed with poriferous pores and foveae on both 
sides of the joints. Eyes large, strongly convex, broadly oblong, 
and much closer to each other on the vertex than on the front. Pro- 
notum wider than long, attenuate anteriorly; disk feebly convex, 
and not longitudinally sulc'ate. Scutellum small, transverse or sub- 
rotundate. Elytra nearly truncate at base, strongly attenuate pos- 
teriorly, with the sides near apex strongly serrate. Sternal cavity 
formed by the mesosterum and metasternum; mesosternum divided, 
the lateral branches long 'and oblique; metasternum truncate in 
front, with a shallow arcuate emargination in front, and a narrow 
longitudinal groove on the disk at middle. Prosternum wide, feebly 
convex, anterior margin truncate, margined, and declivous near the 
eyes; prostorn'al process wide and not sulcate at middle. Posterior 
coxae dilated internally; anterior margin strongly sinuate, and the 
posterior margin straight. Legs slightly robust; anterior 'and me- 
dian femora swollen at middle, the posterior pair subcylindrical and 
feebly flattened on both sides; tibiae slender, cylindrical, feebly en- 
larged at the apex, the anterior and middle pairs feebly arcuate, the 
former longitudinally carinate on the outer surface. Tarsi depressed, 
gradually triangularly enlarged, and flattened from the first to 
fourth joint; first joint of posterior pair nearly as long as the fol- 
lowing two joints united. Body elongate, navicular and acuminate 
at apex. 
This is a small genus, containing only five described species, which 
are confined in their distribution to the Neotropical Region, and of 
which, onlv one has been recorded from the West Indies. 
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CHRYSESTHES LANIERI (Chevrolat) 
Buprestis {Chrysesthes) lanieri Chevrolat, Rev. ZooL, 1S38, p. 280. 
Buprestis lanieri Goey, Mod. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 3840, p. 123-124, pi. 21. 
fig. 121 — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. 
et Nat. (le I'ile de Cuba, Auim. Arctic, 1857 (French edition), p. 61, pi. 
7, figs. 6-7; (Spanish edition), vol. 7, 1857, p. 28; vol. 8, pi. 7, figs. G-7. 
■ Pelecopselaphns lanieri Chkvrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Franco, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, pp. 574-575, (separates pp. 150-151).— Gundlach, Contribucion 
a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 157, No. 244. 
Chrysesthes lanieri Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 3, 1908, pp. 269-270. 
Male. — Form rather narrowly elongate, navicular, feebly convex : 
above violaceous, with a strong greenish reflection ; head and prono- 
tum obsoletely margined with green ; each elytron ornated with three 
round bright green impressions, one at the basal fourth, one at the 
middle, and the other near the apical third; beneath golden-green, 
more shining than above, and the abdominal segments bro'adly tinted 
with steel-blue along posterior margins; tarsi bine. 
Head feebly transversely depressed behind the epistoma, with a 
longitudinal sulcus, Avhich is deeply impressed on occiput and vertex, 
but becoming more obsolete on the front; surface more or less rugose, 
glabrous, coarsely but not very densely punctate, the punctures 
irregular in size and distribution, and bright green or ruby-red at 
the bottom; intervals coarsely and densely granulose; epistoma 
broadly and rather deeply arcuately emarginate in front, forming 
a large obtuse lobe on each side of the emargination. Antennae 
with the serrate joints armed with two large foveae on the under 
side, and a single obsolete one on the upper surface. Pronotum one 
and one-half times' as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than 
behind ; sides obliquely expanded from apical angles to near middle, 
then nearly parallel to the posterior angles, which are nearly rect- 
angular; anterior margin nearly truncate; base slightly bisinuate, 
with the median lobe very broadly and feebly arcuately rounded: 
laterally the sides are sharply margined posteriorly, the margins 
smootli, arcuate, inflected in front, but not extending to the anterior 
margin; surface evenly convex, and not sulcate at middle, coarsely, 
transversely rugose, and finely and rather sparsely punctate, the 
punctures irregularly placed between the rugae, and of a bright 
ruby-red color at the bottom; reliefs finely and densely granulose. 
Scutellum transversely oblong, and obsoletely granulose. Elytra 
wider than pronotum at base, obliquely expanded behind the humeral 
angles, strongly sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuately attenuate 
to the tips, which terminate in a short, acute tooth; lateral margins 
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coarsely and irregular serrate posteriorly; surface striato-punctate, 
the striae slightly impressed and the punctures fine, rather closely 
placed, ruby-red at bottom, and sometimes forming irregular double 
rows in the striae; intervals feebly convex, somewhat confused and 
transversely rugose toward the base, and the surface densely and 
obsoletely granulose ; elytral f oveae densely, coarsely granulose, with 
a few larger punctures intermixed. Abdomen beneath coarsely and 
irregularly punctate, the punctures very shallow, widely separated 
on the median parts, but becoming finer and much denser on the 
antero-lateral part of the segments, sparsely clothed with short in- 
conspicuous hairs, the pubescence denser on the densely punctured 
areas; intervals densely obsoletely granulose; first segment feebly 
convex at middle; last segment broadly, deeply arcuately emargi- 
nate at apex, with a sharp acute tooth on each side of the emargina- 
tion. Prosternum coarsely and rather densely punctate, densely 
clothed with rather long erect inconspicuous hairs, and with the 
intervals finely and densely granulose; prosternal process feebly 
convex, strongly expanded behind the anterior coxal cavities, then 
strongly attenuate and arcuately emarginate to the apex, which is 
broadly and feebly rounded. 
Female. — No specimens have been examined of this sex,, but the 
last abdominal segment is recorded as being more truncate at apex, 
and the lateral teeth not as strongly produced. 
Length, 16-18 mm. ; width, 5.5-6 mm. 
Originally described by Chevrolat (1838) from Cuba. Jacquelin 
Duval (1867), and Chevrolat (1867) both record it from Cuba, in 
the collections of Gundlach, Poey and Chevrolat, and state that the 
larvae live in the royal palm. Gundlach (1801) records collecting it 
at Cardenas, Cuba. Gory (1840) also records it from Cuba, and 
states that Chevrolat reports the larvae of this Buprestid living in 
the "ecorce" of the royal palm {Oreodoxa reffia), (which had been 
cut down) at a place six leagues northeast of the Bay of Jagua, on 
the south side of Cuba, near a small stream. He collected about 20 
examples during May, which were fully matured and ready to 
emerge. 
Material has been examined from the following localities. Coll. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. : One specimen, labeled Cuba (Poey Coll. 
No. 798). Coll. British Mus. : One specimen, without locality and 
simply labeled Saunders 74^18. Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : One specimen 
received from S. C. Bruner, collected at Camaguey, Cuba, August 10, 
1921 (Angelica Rieto) ; and one specimen labeled Cuba (Poey Coll. 
No. 798) (donated by the Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.). There is a single 
example labeled Pelecopselaphm lanicH No. 244 in the Gundlach 
Museum in Habana, but has not been examined by the writer. 
ABT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 69 
Genus HILAROTES Thomson 
Hilarotes Saunders, Catal. Bupr., 1871, p. 21. — Thomson, Typ. Bupr., 1878, 
pp. 39-40. — Keeremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 
1903, p. 89 ; Men. Bupr., vol. 3, 1909, pp. 425-429. 
Head regularly arcuate, and feebly convex, slightly wider in 
front than at vertex; front not narrowed by the insertion of the 
antennae, and more or less rugose; occiput with a narrow longi- 
tudinal groove; epistoma transversely truncate; antennal cavities 
small, rounded, margined posteriorly by an obtuse elevation, and 
situated near the anterior margin of epistoma and also rather close to 
the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae short; first joint elongate, 
and feebly clavate; second very short, obconical; third slender, 
elongate and feebly triangular; fourth about equal in length to 
the third, but broader at the apex; the following joints feebly 
triangular and becoming gradually shorter toward the last joint, 
and armed with the poriferous pores on both sides of the joints, and 
with a small fovea on the under side near the anterior apical angle. 
Eyes rather large, elliptical, feebly convex, and slightly closer to 
each other on the vertex than at the front. Pronotum wider than 
long, moderately convex, and the disk with three longitudinal im- 
pressions; base feebly sinuate. Scutellum small and rounded. Ely- 
tra moderately convex, nearly truncate at base, attenuate poster- 
iorly, sides with a single tooth near apex. Sternal cavity formed 
by the mesosternum and metasternum; mesosternum divided, the 
lateral branches rather long and oblique; metasternum truncate in 
front, with a deep arcuate groove on the disk. Prosternum feebly 
convex, the anterior margin arcuately emarginate and stronglj-^ 
elevated; prosternal process wide, feebly convex, and not sulcate at 
middle. Posterior coxae strongly dilated internally; anterior mar- 
gin strongly sinuate; posterior margin oblique, usually with a 
large obtuse tooth near the middle, but sometimes obsolete. Legs 
slender, anterior and middle femora slightly swollen at middle, the 
posterior pair subcylindrical and feebly flattened on both sides; 
tibiae slender and cylindrical; tarsi depressed, the first joint of 
the posterior pair nearly as long as the following two joints united. 
First abdominal segment nearly as long as the following three seg- 
ments united, and more or less concave at the middle. Body 
elongate, attenuate in front, and more acuminate posteriorly. 
This name was first used by Saunders (1871) for two species, 
Tiiannerhehni Mannerheim, and chalcoytera Jacquelin Duval without 
giving any description, but Thomson (1878) gives a description of 
the genus under the same name, in which he includes both of the 
species listed by Saunders. At present the genus includes three 
species, two of which have been described from Haiti, and the other 
from Cuba. 
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The genus is very closely allied to Halecia^ and Kerremans sepa- 
rates it from that genus by the posterior margin of the hind coxae 
strongly toothed at the middle, but this character is variable, and in 
chalcoptera is nearly obsolete. All the species of Hilarotes can be 
separated from the species of Halecia found in the West Indies, 
by the lateral margin of the elytra armed with a single strong 
tooth near the apex. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Sides of pronotum nearly parallel posteriorly, not distinctly wider at base 
than at middle ; color above anro-viridis. 
nitidicollis (Castelnau and Gory). 
Sides of pronotum distinctly narrower in front than behind, and widest at 
base 2. 
2. Pronotum and elytra unicolored, aeneo-viridis_ mannerheimi (Mannerheim). 
Pronotum and elytra bicolored; pronotum aeneo-viridis, sometimes with a 
bluish reflection; elytra aeneo-cupreous chalcoptera (.Tacquelin Duval). 
HILAROTES NITmiCOLLIS (Castelnau and Gory) 
Halecia nitidicollis Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis, 
pp. 110-111, pi. 28, fig. 151. 
Hilarotes nitidicollis Kebremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 3, 1909, pp. 427-428. 
Psiloptera aureomieans Nonfried, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 272. 
Form broadly elongate and feebly convex; above shining, uni- 
formly aureo-viridis ; beneath aureo-viridis, with a strong cupreous 
tinge, tibiae bluish-green, and the tarsi cyaneous. 
Head feebly convex and without depressions on the front, but with 
a narrow longitudinal groove on the vertex and occiput; surface 
coarsely and deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed and 
confluent in some areas, the reliefs smooth and somewhat rugose; 
epistoma transversely truncate in front ; antenna bluish-green. Pro- 
notum one and one-half times as wide as long, slightly narrower in 
front than behind, widest near the middle; sides subangularly arcu- 
ate, obliquely narrowed in front, dilated in front of middle, nearly 
parallel posteriorly, and sinuate near the posterior angles, which 
are nearly rectangular, the lateral margins rounded and strongly 
rugose, with a very short smooth carina at the base ; anterior margin 
rather deeply arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median 
lobe ; base feebly sinuate and obtusely angulated at the middle ; disk 
strongly convex, with a broad longitudinal median sulcus, which is 
more or less interrupted at the middle and forming a deep fovea 
in front of the scutellum, and also on each side a short narrow longi- 
tudinal depression, deeper at the base, and extending to near the 
AHr. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPBESTDME FISHER 71 
middle, surface very coarsely and deeply punctate, the punctures 
irregularly placed, and becoming somewhat confluent toward the 
sides; intervals smooth and shining. Scutellum rounded, the surface 
finely and densely granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum 
at base, strongly obliquely expanded behind the humeral angles, 
nearly parallel to behind the middle, then strongly arcuately atten- 
uate to the tips, which are obtusely rounded and bidentate, the lateral 
margins w^ith a large tooth near apex; surface with the basal de- 
Ijression transverse and rather deep, striato-punctate, the striae 
feebly impressed, regular on the disk, but becoming more irregular 
toward the sides, Avhere the surface is more or less transversely 
rugose, the punctures rather deep, somewhat confluent and irregu- 
larly placed in the striae, the intervals feebly convex and nearly 
smooth. Abdomen beneath very sparsely and rather coarsely punc- 
tate, from each puncture arises a short, erect cinereous hair; inter- 
vals smooth and shining; first segment broadly and feebly concave 
at middle; last segment broadh' rounded and feebly subtruncate at 
apex. Presternum convex, the anterior margin broadly arcuately 
emarginate at middle, with an obsolete lobe on each side, and the 
margin strongly elevated; surface sparsely and very coarsely punc- 
tate, and clothed with a few long inconspicuous hairs; prosternal 
process feebly convex, nearly smooth, and not sulcate at middle; 
sides feebly expanded behind the anterior coxal cavities, then ob- 
liquely attenuate to the apex, which is acutely rounded. 
Length, 19 mm. : width, 7.5 mm. 
This species was described by Castelnau and Gory (1838) from a 
specimen in the Buquet Collection from Santo Domingo, and Non- 
fried (1891) described the same species from Haiti under the name 
Psiloptera aureomicans. Kerremans (1909) records it from Haiti in 
the Paris Museum and also in the collections of Thery and Ker- 
remans. It semes to be rare in collections and confined to the 
island of Haiti. Through the kindness of the British Museum I 
have been able to examine two specimens, one labeled Port-au- 
Prince, Haiti, and the other simply Haiti (Obenthur), both of these 
specimens are also labeled aureomicans Nonfriecl, and later de- 
termined by Kerremans as nitidicollis Castelnau and Gory. (One 
of these specimens has been donated to the U. S. Nat. Mus.) 
Kerremans ^® has placed clmlcoptera Jacquelin Duval as a synonym 
of this species, but it is quite distinct from nitidicollis and is con- 
fined to the island of Cuba. 
»«Mon. Bnpr., vol. 3, 1909, p. 427. 
45554— 25— Proc.N.M.vol.65— 16 
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HILAROTES MANNERHEIMI (Mannerheim) 
AncylocJieira mannerJieimii Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 78; 3 ed., 
1836, p. 88. (No description). 
Buprestis mannerheimii Mannerheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 
10, no. 8, 1837, pp. 60-07.— Gory. Mon. Bupr., Suppl., vol. 4, 1840, 
pp. 121-122, pi. 21, fig. 119. 
Hilarotes mannerheimi Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 3. 1909, pp. 428-429. 
Buprestis inaequaUs Mannerheim (in litt.). 
The following is a translation of Mannerheim's original descrip- 
tion : 
Greenish-bronzy, antennae black; femora violaceous at tip; head 
rugosely punctate; thorax dilated at base; above uneven, deeply 
canaliculate and rugosely punctate; elytra striate, uneven, the inter- 
stice punctate, and the alternate ones feebly elevated. 
Var, h. Violaceous-aeneous, marked with greenish-bronzy; elytra 
greenish-bronzy lineate; legs greenish-bronzy, the femora at apex 
and tarsi violaceous. 
Island St. Domingo, collected by Mr. Jaeger. 
Length, 8 lines; width, 3 lines. 
Head strongly rugosely punctate, front deplanate. Antemiae black, 
and slightly shorter than the head and thorax. Thorax scarcely 
longer than the width in front, and at the base almost two times 
wider, and here as at the apex bisinuate; sides feebly constricted 
behind the middle, and thence dilated, posterior angles acute and 
rather prominent ; above deeply rugosely punctate, very uneven, and 
throughout the entire length deeply and broadly canaliculate. Scu- 
tellum small, orbicular, and smooth. Elytra at base much broader 
than thorax, nearly four times as long as the thorax, and gradually 
attenuate posteriorly; apex subemarginate, and dentate on the inside; 
sides margined, the margin ending in an acute tooth a little before 
the apex; above very uneven, at the humeri deeply foveate, striate; 
interstice irregularly punctate, the alternate ones feebly elevated. 
Body beneath and legs deeply punctate, thepunctures here and there 
rugose. 
This name was first used by Dejean (1833) for a specimen in his 
collection from Santo Domingo under the name inaequaUs Man- 
nerheim, (which wasM manuscript name) without giving a descrip- 
tion of the species. Mannerheim (1837) described the species, using 
the same name as listed in the Dejean Catalogue. The species is 
very rare in collection, as Gor}^ made his figure from the specimen 
in the Dejean Collection, and the species was unknown to Kerre- 
mans. No specimens have been seen which agree with the descrip- 
tion, and the species is included in the key from the characters 
given in the original description. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 73 
HILAROTES CHALCOPTERA (Jacquelin Duval) 
Buprestis chaJcoptera Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. 
Phj'S. Polit. et Nat. de I'lle de Cuba, Aaiim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), 
pp. 59-60; (Spanish Edition), vol. 7, 1857, p. 27. — Chevkolat, Ann. 
Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 578 (separates p. 154). — 
GUNDLACH, Contribucion k la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 
161-162, No. 308. 
Form rather broadly elongate, feebly convex, and shining above; 
head and pronotum aeneo-viridis, sometimes with a bluish reflection ; 
scutellum and elytra aeneo-cupreous ; beneath dark green, with a 
strong violaceous tinge. 
Head nearly flat, and without any depressions on the front, but 
with a narrow longitudinal groove on the vertex and occiput ; surface 
not rugose, but coarsely, deeply and rather sparsely punctate, the 
punctures well separated and irregularly placed; intervals smooth; 
epistoma broadly truncate in front; antennae aeneo-bnmneus, the 
basal joints green, with the first joint testaceous at base. Pronotum 
about one and one-half times as wide as long, distinctly narrower in 
front than behind, widest at base; sides feebly obliquely expanded 
from apex to basal fourth, then abruptly and obliquely expanded to 
the posterior angles, which are rather acute; anterior margin ar- 
cuately emarginate, with an obtusely angulated lobe at the middle; 
base transversely truncate to middle of elytron, and with a broadly 
rounded median lobe, which is arcuately emarginate in front of 
scutellum; lateral margins rounded and smooth anteriorly, with a 
short smooth carina at the base ; disk with a broad longitudinal sul- 
cus, which is more deeply impressed near the scutellum, a broad 
obsolete one on each side, extending from the base to near the middle, 
and a deep narrow one along the anterior margin, broadly inter- 
rupted at the middle, these depressions causing a bix)adly rounded 
gibbosity near the posterior angles; surface coarsely, sparsely and 
irregularly punctate, and very sparsely clothed with short incon- 
spicuous hairs, the intervals irregular in size and finely and obsoletely 
punctured. Scutellum rounded or transversely oblong, slightly more 
acutely rounded posteriorly, with the surface nearly smooth. Elytra 
distinctly wider than pronotum at base, broadly arcuately expanded 
behind the humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind the middle, then 
strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are obtusely rounded 
and bidentate, the lateral margins with a large tooth near the apex ; 
disk with a broad irregular basal depression; surface striato-punc- 
tate, the striae feebly impressed, regular on the disk, but becoming 
more irregular and somewliat confused at the sides, the punctures in 
the striae fine, remotely and ratherly regularly spaced, some of the 
intervals more strongly convex, especially toward the apex, and 
sparsely, irregularly punctate, from each puncture arises a short in- 
74 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL, MUSEUM vol. «5 
conspicuous hair, whieh is more erect than those in the striate. Ab- 
domen beneath coarsely and rather densely punctate, and sparsely 
clothed with rather long recumbent hairs, with a few denser pubes- 
cent areas at the antero-lateral part of the segments; first segment 
convex, without a median sulcus; last segment broadly truncate at 
apex. Prosternum convex, the anterior margin feebly arcuately 
emarginate, and feebly declivous, the surface coarsely and rather 
densely punctate and sparsely clothed with short erect inconspicuous 
hairs; prosternal process nearl}- flat, rather densely punctured, and 
not sulcate at the middle, the sides parallel to behind the anterior 
coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is acutely 
rounded. Posterior coxae with the median tooth on posterior margin 
only feebly developed. 
Length, 15-17 mm. ; width 5.5-6.5 mm. 
This species was described by Jacquelin Duval (1857) from Cuba, 
and its distribution is probably confined to that island. Chevrolat 
(1867) records it from Cuba, in the collections of Gundlach and 
Poey. Gundlach (1891) reports collecting it in the western part of 
Cuba. 
Through the kindness of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 
delphia, I have been able to examine two specimens from their col- 
lection labeled Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 14), from which the above de- 
scription was made, and which are probably the specimens referred 
to by Chevrolat. The specimens are probably both females. (One 
of these specimens has been donated to the U. S. Nat. Mus.) There 
is also a single example of this species labeled No. 308 in the Gund- 
lach Museum in Habana, and another one in the British Museum, 
which have not been examined. 
Kerremans has placed this as a synonym of mtidicollis Castelnau 
and Gory, but it is a distinct species. The elytra are aeneo-cupreous 
and more finely punctured, pronotum distinctly narrower in front 
than behind, and widest at base, the surface more finely punctured 
and the longitudinal depressions on each side of the middle more 
obsolete, prosternum more densely punctured, the anterior margin 
declivous, and not elevated, and the underside of the body green, 
with a violaceous tinge. 
Genus CHALCOPHORA Solier 
Chalcophora Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 278-279, 
pi. 10, lig. 9. — Castelnau and Gokv. Mon. Bupr., vol. 2. 1837. liuprestis, 
pp. 7-19, pis. 2-4.— Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 21-22.— 
Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fuse. 12, pt. 2, 1903, pp. 
77-78.— Casey. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 77-78.— 
Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 4, 1909, pp. 17-49, pi. 28. 
Head more or less, rugose, longitudinally impressed at the middle, 
and slightly wider in front than at vertex; front not narrowed by 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 76 
the insertion of the antennae ; epistoma short and arciiately emargi- 
nate in front ; antennal cavities large, deep, rounded, and situated 
about equalh^ distant between the anterior margin of epistoma and 
the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae rather robust, and nearly as 
long as the head and pronotum united ; first joint moderately elongate 
and strongly clavate at apex ; second very short and globular ; third 
slightly shorter than the first, but more slender and cylindrical ; fol- 
lowing joints longer than wide, more obtusely dentate on the inner 
side, and becoming gradually shorter to the eleventh joint, which is 
oblong, the serrate joints armed with poriferous pores on both sides 
of the joints, but without distinct foveae. Eyes not very large, mod- 
erately convex, broadly oblong, and only slightly closer to each other 
on the vertex than at the front. Pronotum wider than long, moder- 
ately convex, and longitudinally sulcate or carinate at the middle; 
base bisinu'ate. Scutellum very small and nearly quadrate. Elytra 
elongate, sinuate at base, moderately convex, and strongly attenuate 
posteriorly ; lateral margins more or less serrate posteriorly. Sternal 
cavity formed by the mesosternum and metasternum; mesosternum 
divided, the lateral branches long 'and oblique; metasternum feebly 
rounded in front and with a narrow longitudinal groove at the 
middle. Presternum feebly convex; anterior margin sinuate and 
feebly produced at middle; prosternal process wide, flat, and with 
two longitudinal sulci. Posterior coxae strongly dilated internally; 
'anterior margin sinuate; posterior margin strongly oblique. Legs 
rather robust; anterior and middle femora strongly swollen at mid- 
dle, the posterior pair subcylindrical ; tibiae subcylindrical, feebly 
enlarged at the apex, and the anterior pair with a longitudinal carina 
on the exterior m'argin; tarsi depressed, elongate, the first joint of 
the posterior pair as long as the following two joints united. First 
abdominal segment concave or sulcate at middle. Body robust, 
elong'ate-oval, attenuate in front, and more acuminate behind. 
This genus is distributed throughout the Nearctic and Palae'arctic 
Kegions, and includes about 20 described species, of which only two 
have been recorded from the West Indies. One of these was origi- 
nally described from Guadeloupe, and the other was introduced into 
Cuba, probably in pine timber from the United States. The species 
are closely allied, but the following table, which is taken from Ker- 
rem'ans Monograph, may be of some assistance in separating the two 
species. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
Elytra with the subsutiu-al groove entire, attaining the base, though shallow 
and sometimes partially interrupted near the base; color above reddish- 
cupreous; sulcus on first abdominal segment pubescent, more distinctly in 
the male humboldti (Castelnau and Gory). 
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Elytra with the subsutural groove abbreviated in front, and only attaining the 
basal third or fourth; color above aeneo-nigris ; sulcus on first abdominal 
segment glabrous in both sexes virginiensis (Drury). 
CHALCaPHORA HUMBOLDTI (Castelnau and Gory) 
Buprestis humboldti Castei-nau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, p. 12, 
pi. 3, fig. 8. 
Chalcophora humboldti Pleutiaxix and Sall£, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6. 
vol. 9, 1890, p. 403 (separates p. 53). — Keeeemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 4, 
1909, p. 35. 
The following is a translation of Castelnau and Gory's original 
description : 
Eeddish-cupreoiis and elongate, thorax strongly granulose ; surface 
with elevated lines; elytra nearly smooth, with longitudinal costae 
and cupreous impressions. Length, 9i/^ lines; width, 3i/^ lines. Hab- 
itat Guadeloupe. 
Body elongate and of a golden-coppery color. Head and thorax 
granulose, with a few smooth longitudinal lines, the latter nearly 
quadrate. Elytra nearly smooth at middle, with feeble longitudinal 
costae at the sides, the costae interrupted by two depressions. Body 
beneath golden-yellow, and granulose, the abdominal segments feebly 
impressed on each side. 
Fleutiaux and Salle (1890), and Kerremans (1909) both record 
this species from the type locality, probably only from the record 
given in the original description, since neither of these authors had 
examined specimens of it. No specimens of this species have been 
seen by the writer. 
CHALCOPHORA VIRGINIENSIS (Drurj) 
Buprestis virginiensis Drury, lUustr. Nat. Hist., Exotic Ins., vol. 1, 1770, 
pp. 66-67, pi. 30, fig. 3.— Hekbst, Nat. Syst. Ins. Kafer, vol. 9, 1801, 
pp. 114-116, pi. 148, fig. 1.— ScHONHERE, Syn. Ins., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1817, 
p. 230. — Castelnau and Goby, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, pp. 11-12, pi. 2, 
fig. 7. 
Ghalcopliora virginiensis Wateehouse, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Ooleopt., voL 3, 
pt. 1, 1882, p. 2; 1889, p. 167.— KEREEStANs, Mon. Bupr., vol. 4, 1909, 
pp. 26-29. 
Buprestis vlrginica Gmelin, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13 ed., vol. 1, pt. 4, 1788, 
p. 1940, No. 110. 
Buprestis cupreomaculatus Goeze, Entom. Beitr., vol. 1, 1777, p. 596, No. 11. 
Chalcophora novacboracensis Fncn, Trans, N. Y. State Agri. Soc, vol. 17, 
1858, pp. 701-702, No. 220. 
Chalcophora virginica Cheveolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, p. 573 (separates p. 149). — Gundlach, Contribucion k la Entom. 
Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 155-156. 
Rather broadl}^ elongate, rounded in front, slightly more attenuate 
behind, and moderately convex above ; above aeneo or aeneo-cupreous 
in the depressions, with the reliefs brownish-black; beneath more 
reddish-cupreous and shining than above. 
ABT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 77 
Head feebly convex, with a broad, deep longitudinal depression 
on the front, which is rather broadly and deeply silicate at the mid- 
dle, the sulcus becoming narrow and feebly impressed on the occiput ; 
surface sparsely, coarsely and very irregularly punctate, the punc- 
tures variable in size, but becoming denser and finer along the mar- 
gins of the eyes,, also sparsely clothed with short cinereous hairs, 
especially along the eyes; epistoma broadly and very deeply arcu- 
ately emarginate in front, forming an obtuse tooth on each side of 
the emargination, Pronotum slightly more than one and one-half 
times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than behind, widest 
near apical third ; sides arcuately expanded to near the apical third, 
where they are broadly rounded or feebly angulated, then very feebly 
narrowed or parallel to the posterior angles, which are nearly rec- 
tangular; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with an obsolete 
broadly rounded median lobe; base bisinuate, with the median lobe 
broadly rounded; surface with numerous irregular variable depres- 
sions at the sides and with two rather shallow longitudinal sulci at 
the middle, densely and irregularly punctate in the depression, the 
punctures irregular in size and shape, and becoming confluent at 
some places, the intervals finely, densely granulose, and with a few 
large remotely placed punctures. Scutellum very small and rounded. 
Elytra moderately convex, slightly wider than the pronotum at base ; 
humeral angles obtusely angulated; sides broadly arcuatel}'- ex- 
panded behind the humeral angles, sinuate at the posterior coxae, 
then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are rather acutely 
rounded, with a short acute tooth at the sutural margin, the lateral 
margins feebly serrate posteriorly. Each elytron with four more 
or less distinct longitudinal costae; the first rather broad, entire, 
extending along the suture and strongly expanded anteriorly, where 
it is connected to the suture and second costa; second costa formed 
by a series of four broad irregular reliefs, sometimes connected to 
each other by a slender smooth elevated line, and the two posterior 
reliefs connected to the first costa ; third costa narrow, beginning at 
the humeral callosity and extending into a broad relief, situated 
midway between the third and fourth reliefs of the second costa, and 
connected to the fourth costa; fourth costa very narrow, not inter- 
rupted, without broader reliefs, extending from the humeral callos- 
ity to near the apex, and following the outline of the lateral margin ; 
the reliefs smooth, with a few scattered fine punctures; depressions 
finely and densely punctate, the punctures becoming more or less 
confluent, and finely rugose. Abdomen beneath finely and very 
irregularly punctate, in some areas the punctures are more or less 
longitudinally confluent, sparsel}' clothed with moderately long, fine, 
cinereous hairs, and the intervals smooth and shining; first segment 
broadly but feebly longitudinally sulcate at middle; last segment 
78 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol. 65 
broadly, deeply arcuately emarginate at apex in the male, and 
acutely rounded in the female. Prosternum feebly convex, the sur- 
face sparsely and coarsely punctate, becoming coarsely rugose at the 
sides, spareely clothed with long inconspicuous hairs; anterior mar- 
gin nearly truncate in front; prosternal process nearly fiat, the sur- 
face smooth, with a double row of irregularly placed coarse punc- 
tures, from which arises a series of rather long hairs, and which are 
more distinct in the male than in the female, the sides expanded 
behind the anterior coxal cavities, then arcuately emarginate and 
narrow u'd to the apex, which is rather narrowly rounded. 
Lo^ gth, 20-29 mm. ; width, 6.5-10 mm. 
Tais species was originally described by Drurj^ from Virginia, 
it is a very common insect and the larvae infest various species 
of pines. It is distributed over the entire eastern part of the United 
States, and extends southward into Mexico and Central America. 
I have not seen any specimens from the West Indies, so the above 
description was made from a specimen collected in Virginia. 
Chevrolat (1867) records a single specimen having been collected 
in Cuba, which was probably imported from the United States. 
Gundlach (1891) states that it is not indigenous to Cuba, but has 
been intioduced in ships from North America. 
Genus HALECIA Castelnau and Gory 
Pristiptera Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 78 ; 3 ed., 1836, p. 88. 
Prionophora Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 78 ; 3 ed., 1836, p. 89. 
(No described species included.) 
Leptia (part) Dejean, Cat. Coleopt, 2 ed., 1833, p. 78; 3 ed., 1836, p. 89. 
(No described .species included.) 
Halecia Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis, pp. 
108-114. — Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 23-25. — Kerremans, 
Wytsnian's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 1903, pp. 69-73 ; Mon. 
Bupr., vol. 3, 1908-1909, pp. 336-425, pis. 20-21. 
Acantha Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1838, pp. 1-3, pi. 1. 
Head more or less depressed, distinctly wider in front than on 
vertex; front not narrowed by the insertion of the antennae, and 
sometimes feebly longitudinally grooved; epistoma emarginate in 
front; antennal cavities small, rounded, and situated under an ele- 
vated carina at a considerable distance from the inner margin of 
the eyes. Antennae short; first joint elongate and feebly clavate at 
apex; second short, obconic; third elongate, nearly as long as first 
joint, and feebly triangular; fourth nearly as long as third, but 
broader at apex; following joints triangular, slightly longer than 
wide, dentate on the inner side, except the last joint, which is oblong; 
the last eight joints armed with poriferous pores, and more or less 
distinct foveae on both sides of the joints. Eyes large, strongly 
convex, broadly oblong, and distinctly closer to each other on the 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 79 
vertex than at the front. Pronotum wider thani long, usually 
narrower in front than behind; base bisinuate; disk feebty convex 
and more or less sulcate. Scutellum small and transverse. Elytra 
rather convex, feebly lobed at base, and strongly attenuate pos- 
teriorly; lateral margins smooth or serrate posteriorly. Sternal 
cavity formed by the mesosternum and metasternum; mesosternum 
divided, the lateral branches rather long and oblique; metasternum 
truncate in front, with a shallow arcuate emargination at the mid- 
dle, and a narrow longitudinal groove on the disk. Prosternum 
convex, anterior margin truncate or arcuately emarginate; pros- 
ternal process rather wide, feebly convex, and not sulcate at middle. 
Posterior coxae slightly dilated internally; anterior margin feebly 
sinuate; posterior margin slightly oblique. Legs slightly robust; 
anterior and middle femora strongly swollen at middle, the pos- 
terior pair subcylindrical ; tibiae slender and subcylindrical ; tarsi 
broad and depressed, the first joint of posterior pair as long as the 
following two joints united. Body rather robust, elongate, attenuate 
in front, expanded posteriorly, and attentuate or acuminate at 
apex. 
The species of this genus are rather numerous in numbers, and 
are distributed throughout the Neotropical Region. Four species 
have been recorded from the West Indies, of which, only one has 
been seen by the writer. Pristiptera was used by Dejean (1833) for 
four species, three of which were undescribed, and the fourth being 
hlanda described by Fabricius from Brazil. 
The characters used in the following key are the same as those 
used by Kerremans for separating the species of this genus. 
KEY TO THB SPECIES 
1. Lateral margin of the elytra dentate posteriorly verecunda Chevrolat. 
Lateral margin of the elytra not dentate posteriorly 2. 
2. Tibiae cyaneo-purpureis ; tarsi blackish quadricolor Chevrolat. 
Tibiae and tarsi ferrugineous or testaceous 3. 
3. Elytr;i bronzy-green, with purplish reflection erythropus (Gory). 
Elytra golden-green, with a bluish reflection pyropus Kerremans. 
HALECIA VERECUNDA Chevrolat 
Ealecia verecunda Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7. 1807, 
pp. 573-574 (separates pp. 149-150). — Gundlach, Contribucion a la 
Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 156-157, No. 792.— Kerremans, 
Mon. Bupr., vol. 3, 1908, p. 346. 
The following is a translation of Chevrolat's original description : 
Elongate, gradually attenuate from behind to apex, opaque and 
blackish-green; head punctate, rounded, longitudinally sulcate and 
red, front and sides green; antennae black, the third joint nearly 
as long as the first; eyes fuscous, large, and oblong; thorax moder- 
ately convex, subquadrate, front straight, base broadly biarcuate. 
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anterior angles obtuse and declivous, the posterior ones acute, with a 
longitudinal impressed line at base, and the anterior margin green: 
scutellum smooth, rounded, and purpureous ; elytra flattened, strongly 
cuneate, margin serrate, and the apex mucronate; each elytron with 
three fasciae and a longitudinal vitta toward the apex emerald-green, 
first fascia at base, second and third in front and foehind the middle, 
short, oppositely obliquely placed ("vice versa oblique positis"), 
and punctate-striate, interstice vaguely and irregularly punctate; 
body beneath minutely and regularly punctate, green with an 
emerald-green tinge, and the stigmata golden-yellow ; legs green, and 
the tarsi black. Length, 23 mm.; width, 4 mm. Cuba. From the 
collections of Gundlach and Poey. 
This species and the following {quadricolor) are of unusual form 
for this genus, and rather resemble the female of Anthaxia cyani- 
comis Fabricius. 
I have not seen any specimens of this genus from Cuba, and since 
the distribution of this species is probably confined to that island, 
the species remains unknown to the writer, Gundlach (1891) re- 
cords this species from Bayamo, Cuba. This species is not repre- 
sented in the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there is a single 
example labeled No. 792 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, which 
is the specimen referred to by Gundlach. 
HALECIA QUADRICOLOR Chcvrolat 
Halecia quadricolor Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 
574 (separates p. 150). — Gundlach, Contribiicion a la Entom. Cuba, 
vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 157, No. 1417. — Keukemans, Hon. Bupr., vol. 3, 
1909, pp. 413-^14. 
The following is a translation of Chevrolat's original description : 
Elongate, densely punctate, red; beneath green and purple inter- 
mixed, legs cyaneo-purpureous, tarsi blackish ; head densely punctate 
and red, around the eyes cyaneous, vertex green ; palpi ancl antennae 
black; eyes oblong, fuscous; thorax red, subquadrate, and the front 
narrowed and straight ; base bisinuate, its margin green ; lateral mar- 
gins deflexed, strongly arcuately reflexed; above with three deep 
longitudinal sulci, the dorsal line green, and deeply impressed at 
base ; scutellum green, obscure, transverse and bifoveate; elytra wider 
than pronotum at base, attenuate posteriorly, obliquely mucronate, 
obsoletely denticulate, punctate-striate, red. the suture broadly sulcate 
and green; epipleura bright cyaneous. Length, 24 mm.; width, 5 
mm. Cuba. From the collections of Gundlach and Poey. 
This species rather approaches in form and color to Anthaxia sutu- 
mlis Olivier, 
This is also a Cuban species, and no specimens have been seen 
which agrees with Chevrolat's description. Gundlach (1891) re- 
cords it from the western part of Cuba, The species is not repre- 
sented in the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there is a single 
example labeled No. 1417 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, which 
is the specimen refered to by Gundlach. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHEE 81 
HALECIA ERYTHRQPUS (Gory) 
Buprestis erythropus Gory, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1840, p. 126, pi. 22, 
fig. 124. 
Leptia erythropus Dejkan, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 78; 3 ed., 1836, 
p. 89. (No description.) 
Halecia erytJiropa Fleutiaux and Salle, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, 
vol. 9, 1890, p. 403 (separates p. 53). — Kerkemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 
3, 1909, p. 420. 
Male. — Form narrowly elongate, navicular, and feet>ly convex; 
above dark bronzy-green, with strong violaceous, purpureous and 
cupreous reflections, and the elytra more or less ornated with irregu- 
lar cupreous markings, which are frequently wanting; beneath simi- 
lar to above, but more shining, the legs ferrugineous, with a strong 
iridescent greenish reflection. 
Head broadly but not deeply depressed, the depression extending 
to the margin of the eyes, and from the epistoma to the vertex, and 
with an obsolete narrow longitudinal groove on the occiput and 
vertex ; surface coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, the punctures 
shallow and irregularly placed ; intervals smooth ; epistoma broadly, 
arcuately emarginate in front, with the outer angles of the emargina- 
tion forming an obtuse tooth. Pronotum about one and one-half 
times as wide as long, base and apex about equal in width; sides 
feebly arcuately attenuate to the basal sixth, where they are strongly 
sinuate, then obliquely expanded to the posterior angles, which are 
somewhat projecting and rather acute; anterior margin broadly 
arcuately emarginate, with the median lobe rather distinct and 
subangulate; base feebly bisinuate, with a broadly rounded median 
lobe; lateral margins rounded and only obsoletely marked poste- 
riorly; disk with a broad shallow longitudinal sulcus, which is in- 
terrupted at the middle, a transverse depression on each side along 
anterior margin, and a broad obsolete one on each side about midway 
between the median sulcus and lateral margin; surface sparsely and 
rather deeply punctate, the punctures irregular in size and arrange- 
ment, and becoming coarser at the sides ; intervals smooth. Scutellum 
short, oblong, two times as wide as long, the surface smooth and 
shining. Elytra wider than pronotum at base, feebly expanded be- 
hind the humeral angles, nearly parallel to apical third, then arcu- 
ately attenuate to the tips, which are produced into an acute spine 
at the outer margin, and then strongly obliquely emarginate to the 
suture ; lateral margins entire ; each elytron with a short broad costa 
at apex, and several irregular obsolete impressions, which are some- 
times wanting; surface striato-punctate, the striae feebly impressed, 
and the punctures fine and more or less confused in the striae, the 
intervals feebly convex, somewhat rugose toward the sides, and 
sparsely, irregularly punctate. Abdomen beneath finely and rather 
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sparsely punctate, the punctures becoming denser on the antero- 
lateral part of the segments, and spaj-sely clothed at the sides with 
rather long, fine recumbent hairs; intervals finely and densely granu- 
lose; first segment convex, and not sulcate at middle; last segment 
truncate at apex. Prosternum coarsely, sparsely punctate, and very 
sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs, and the intervals 
smooth; anterior margin truncate; prosternal process feebly flattened 
on the top, and not longitudinally sulcate, the sides feebly expanded 
behind the anterior coxal cavities, then arcuately emarginate and 
attenuate to the apex, which is obtusely rounded. 
Female. — Similar to the male, but with the last abdominal segment 
obtusely rounded at the apex. 
Length, 12-15 mm. ; width 3.5-5 mm. 
This name was first used by Dejean (1823) for a species from 
North America, which he placed in his genus Le'ptia^ but without 
describing either the genus or species. Gory (1840) described the 
species under the same name from the specimen in the Dejean col- 
lection, and placed it in the old genus Buprestis. It has been recorded 
by Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) from Guadeloupe, as having been 
collected by Delauney during September at Camp Jacobs, and also by 
Vitrac at Trois Rivieres and Petit Bourg on a species of Melasto- 
maceae. 
Specimens which I have determined as this species have been ex- 
amined from the following localities. Coll. U. S. Xat. Mus. : Three 
specimens, Dominica, June and July, collected by H. W. Foote of 
the Yale Expedition of 1913; and one specimen from Gaudeloupe 
(L. Defau). Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : One specimen, Gourbeyre, 
Guadeloupe. Coll. British Mus. : One specimen, labeled Dominica, 
G. A. Ramage, 97-67, May 12, 1888. 
The elytral depressions are slightly more cupreous in the specimens 
from Guadeloupe, but there is considerable variation even in these 
specimens. It is just possible that these specimens represent the 
species described by Kerremans as pyropus from that island, but if 
so, I can not see any reason for separating the two species. 
HALECIA PYROPUS Kerremans 
Ealecia pyropus Kerremans, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 37, 1893, pp. 504- 
505.— Kerremans, Men. Bupr., vol, 3, 1909, pp. 41&-420. 
The following is a translation of Kerremans' original description : 
Elongate, at apex attenuate, metallic golden-green, with a cyaneous 
tinge, the depressions on the head, pronotum and elytra are dark 
purpureo-violaceous ; head granulose, the front excavated ; pronotum 
trapezoidal, uneven, depressed on both sides, and the middle longi- 
tudinally sulcate ; scutellum transverse ; elytra punctate-striate, trun- 
cate and dilated at humeri, the apex attenuate and strongly muricate; 
each elytron with three impressions, first an elongate one on disk, the 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 83 
second transverse, and placed behind the middle, and the third small 
and subapical. Body beneath punctate ; legs brunneo-purpureous, 
and the tarsi green. Length, 16 mm.; width, 5 mm. The arrange- 
ment and form of the posterior part of the elytra, terminating into a 
point, gives this species the appearance of a Dicerca. Guadeloupe 
(Lherminier, by Chevrolat). 
Genus ACTENODES Lacordaire 
Actenodcs Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 80; 3 ed., 1836, p. 90.— 
Lacokdaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 72-73. — Kekremans, Wytsman's 
Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 193-195. 
Head vertical and much wider in front than on vertex; front flat- 
tened and narrowed by the insertion of the antennae; epistoma short 
and wide, and more or less: emarginate or truncate in front ; antenna! 
cavities large, round, and situated at a considerable distance from 
the eyes. Antennae moderately long, variable, and dentate from the 
fourth joint, the serrate joints usually armed with poriferous foveae 
on the lower anterior margin of the joints (some of the species also 
have obsolete foveae on the upper side). Eyes very large, ellipti- 
cal, inner margin very oblique and much closer to each other on 
the vertex than on the front. Pronotum much wider than long, and 
not closely applied to the elytra at the posterior angles; anterior 
margin arcuately emarginate; sides sinuate; base with a distinct 
median lobe. Scutellum small and triangular. Elytra variable, 
shagreened or finely punctured, with or without costae, rarely with 
the sides serrate near apex, lobed at base, and strongly attenuate 
posteriorly. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and meta- 
sternum; mesosternum divided, the lateral branches elongate and 
somewhat triangular; metasternum feebly emarginate or truncate 
in front. Prosternum feebly convex in front, with the anterior 
margin more or less declivous ; prosternal process flat, strongly con- 
stricted by the coxal cavities, behind which it is: abruptly and 
arcuately expanded on each side into a sharp tooth, and with a large 
acute tooth at the apex, which fits into the sternal cavity. Posterior 
coxae strongly dilated internally; anterior margin nearly straight; 
posterior margin oblique. Legs rather robust; anterior and middle 
femora more or less swollen, the former nearly always dentate on 
the inner margin; tibiae normal, the anterior pair frequently arcuate 
in the males; tarsi rather short, the third joint deeply emarginate 
and divided into two long divergent spines, which extend beyond the 
fourth joint; tarsal claws simple or feebly expanded at base. Body 
oblong, rather broad, and more acuminate behind than in front. 
The name Actenodes was first used by Dejean (1833) in the sec- 
ond edition of his Catalogue des Coleopteres, and in which he in- 
cluded hellula Mannerheim from Santo Domingo, 7ioMUs Fabricius 
from Cayenne, and eight species of which no descriptions had been 
84 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol. 65 
published. In his third edition of the same work (1836), he gives 
in addition to the ones mentioned previously, viridifasciata, calca- 
rata, and chalyheitarsis, all from Mexico and credited to Chevrolat, 
of which virldifasciata is only a manuscript name, and which was 
later described by Castelnau and Gory as regularis. Lacordaire 
(1857) published a description of the genus, and in which he placed 
a number of species, some of which were previously included in this 
genus by Dejean. 
Actenodes is a rather large genus and has a wide distribution, the 
species being distributed throughout North, South, and Central 
America, Mexico, West Indies, and Africa. It is closely allied to 
Chrysohothris and Golohogaster, but can be easily distinguished 
from either of these two genera by the third joint of the tarsi 
having two long spines, which extend beyond the fourth joint. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Elytra with distinct longitudinal costae -. 
Elytra without longitudinal costae 3. 
2. Prtmotum triinsver.sely impressed at base; elytral markings cupreous. 
marmorata (Castelnau and Gory). 
Pronotum with three longitudinal impressions ; elytral markings aeneous. 
f nlminata ( Schonherr ) . 
3. Elytra with the dlscal spots distinctly embossed, and of a green color, nar- 
rowly margined with aureo-eupreous bellula Mannerheim. 
Elytra with the discal spots not embossed 4. 
4. Each elytron with a round aureo-cupreous spot at apical third ; color above 
dark aeneous, with olivaceous and purplish reflections. 
auronotata (Castelnau and Gory). 
Each elytron with an oblique green fascia at apical third ; color above red- 
dish-cupreous auronotata, var. jamaicensis Fisher. 
ACTENODES MARMORATA (Castelnau and Gory) 
Chrysohothris marmorta Castelnau and Goby, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, 
pp. 31-32, pi. 6, fig. 45. 
The following is a translation of the original description : 
Dark aeneous; thorax with three not very deep foveae; elytra 
cupreous, and marbled violaceous. Length, 9 lines; width, 3% lines. 
Habitat Martinique. 
Cupreous, with a feebly darker tinge. Head granulose, with a 
deep longitudinal groove at the middle, and two elevations between 
the eyes. Thorax transverse, with an impression at middle behind, 
and also one on each side, surface covered with small transverse 
rugae. Elytra granulose, with longitudinal costae, and ornated with 
an irregular blackish-violet spot at the base, and three irregular 
oblique sinuate fasciae of the same color, the posterior one situated 
at the apex. Body beneath and legs punctate and of a beautiful 
cupreous color. Tarsi violaceous. 
This is certainly closely allied to fulTninata Schonherr, but ac- 
cording to the description given by Castelnau and Gory it is a larger 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 85 
species, and the elytral markings are cupreous, while in fulminata 
they are aeneous and differently arranged. In figuring marmorata 
the pronotum is shown as being transversely impressed along base, 
while in the description they say that the pronotum has an impres- 
sion at the middle behind and another one on each side. Since their 
descriptions are very deficient, these three impressions may be con- 
nected transversely by a shallow groove, similar to some of the speci- 
mens of auronotata^ in which case it would be transversely impressed 
as shown in the figure. Since Castelnau and Gory had both of the 
species before them when they described this species, I shall consider 
them as two distinct species. No specimens have been seen by the 
writer which would apply to the above description. 
ACTENODES FULMINATA (Schonhen) 
Buprestis fulminata ScHONHEasR, Syn. Ins., vol. 1. pt. 3, App. 1817, p. 121, 
No. 166. 
Actenodes signata Beatjdet-Lafarge, Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, 
p. 80 ; 3 ed., 1836, p. 90. (No description.) 
Actenodes cyanura Chevrolat, Silbermann's Rev. Ent., vol. 5, 1838, pp. 
72-73. 
Chrysohothris fulminata Castelnau and Gory, Moii. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, 
pp. 37-38, pi. 7, fig. 52. 
Actenodes fulminata Leng and Mutchler, Bull. Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist.. 
vol. 33, 1914, p. 430. 
Form broadly elongate, moderately convex, attenuate in front, 
more acuminate posteriorly ; and narrower behind than in front, gla- 
brous and shining; head and pronotum aeneous, with a strong oliva- 
ceous and purpureous tinge; scutellum green; elytra nigro- viola- 
ceous, with irregular transverse aeneous markings; beneath oliva- 
ceous-green, with the tarsi and last abdominal segment cyaneous. 
Head feebly convex, front nearly flat, triangular, with a longi- 
tudinal groove extending from near the epistom'a to vertex, the 
groove feebly impressed on the front, but becoming very deep on 
the vertex between the two nodules, which are broad, but not 
strongly elevated; surface densely, irregularly and deeply punc- 
tate, becoming strongly transversely scabrous on the anterior part ; 
intervals nearly smooth, becoming obsoletely granulose on the occi- 
put; epistoma feebly, broadly emargin'ate in front, witli an obso- 
lete median tooth; eyes large, very oblique and about two times as 
widely separated on the occiput as in au7'onotata. Pronotum strongly 
transverse, and moderately convex, two times as wide as long, apex 
and base about equal in width, widest at apical third ; sides broadly 
rounded at apical third, then arcuately attenu'ate to the posterior 
angles, which are nearly rectangular; anterior margin arcuately 
emarginate, with an obsolete median lobe; base bisinuate, with a 
broad, feebly rounded median lobe ; surface with a very broad longi- 
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tudinal median depression, deeper behind than in front, and on 
each side of which is a large, moderately deep, round depression, 
sparsely, deeply and rather regularly punctate on the disk, becom- 
ing coarsely, irregularly rugose toward the sides, the rugae long, 
strongly elevated, and widely separated ; intervals finely and densely 
granulose. Scutellum very small, triangular, the sides about equal 
in length. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum 'at base; sides 
broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind middle, 
then obliquely attenuate to the tips, which are rather acute; lateral 
margins very coarsely serrate to near middle; each elytron strongly 
angularly lobed at base, with a feeble transverse basal impression, 
and four more or less distinct sinnuate longitudinal costae, none of 
which extend to the apex; surface densely, deeply and irregularly 
punctate, the punctures becoming confluent toward the sides; inter- 
vals densely and rather coarsely granulose; each elytron ornated 
with aeneous markings, which are very narrowly margined with 
cyaneous and arranged as follows: An elongate circle enclosing a 
dark area at base and extending backward forming the letter C, 
w^ith the opening toward the suture; at basal third a broad trans- 
verse fascia, forming posteriorly the letter W between the first and 
second costae, and then extending transversely to the suture, and 
forward along the suture to the base ; at the middle there is a very 
irregular zigzag fascia extending from the latei-'al margin and form- 
ing the letter M between the first and second costa, then obliquely 
backward to the suture 'at apical third, and following the suture to 
apex, where it is sometimes connected to a narrow band along the 
lateral margin, which extends forward to the apical third; there is 
also an oblong spot behind the humeral angle. Abdomen beneath 
moderately convex, sparsely but not very deeply punctate; intervals 
smooth and shining ; last segment more densely punctured posteriorly, 
with the apex broadly sinuate and armed on each side with a 
tooth. Presternum feebly convex, broadly truncate and declivous in 
front: surface sparsely and rather coarsely punctate, becoming ir- 
regularly striolate toward the sides; prosternal process feebly con- 
vex, strongly expanded behind the coxal cavities, the sides very 
long and acute, and extending between the anterior and middle 
coxae, the median tooth long and acute at apex. Posterior tibiae 
with a dense line of very long fine hairs on the inner margin. 
Length, 15 mm. ; width, 6 mm. 
This species was described by Schonherr from Brazil, and the 
above description was made from a specimen donated to the United 
states National Museum by the British Museum, which was col- 
lected at Jatahy, Brazil, and determined by Kerremans as fulminata 
Schonherr. Actenodes cyanura was described by Chevrolat from 
Cayenne, and has been placed as a synonym of fulminata by Kerre- 
ART. 9 • WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 87 
mans. I have examined another specimen received from the British 
Museum from Caj^enne, and labeled " slgnata Beaud.-Lafarge, cya- 
nura Chevr." Avhich agrees very well with Chevrolat's description of 
cyanura^ and which only differs from the specimen of fuhninata 
from Brazil in a few minor details; being smaller (12.5 mm. long; 
and 5 mm. wide), head not quite as densly rugose, median depression 
on pronotum more obsolete anteriorly, and the elytra more sparsely 
and finely punctate, otherwise they are the same, which verifies Ker- 
remans conclusions as to the synonymy. 
So far, this species has only been recorded in the literature as oc- 
curing in the West Indies, by Leng and Mutchler in their Prelimi- 
nary List of the Coleoptera of the West Indies.^" This record was 
probably copied from Linell's card catalogue of the West Indian 
Coleoptera, in which he had recorded the original description of 
cyanura Chevrolat, and erroneously cites the locality as Martinique 
instead of Cayenne. The species probably does not occur in the 
West Indies, its distribution being restricted to South America, but 
the above description is included, so that in case its distribution 
should extend into the Antilles, it can be easily identified. 
ACTENODES BELLULA Manncrheini 
Actenodes hellula, var. sohrina Maxnerheim, Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 eel., 
1833, p. 80; 3 cd., 1836, p. 90. (No de-seription. ) 
Actenodes hellula Mannerheim, Bull. Soe. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, no. 
8, 1837, pp. 79-80. — Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7. 
1867, p. 584 (separates p. 160). 
Form elongate, and moderately convex, attenuate in front, more 
acuminate j^osteriorly, and narrower behind than in front, subo- 
paque and glabrous; dark aeneous, with a feeble olivaceous or pur- 
pureous tinge; scutellum aeneo-viridis; each elytron ornated with 
four green spots (the two discal ones strongly embossed), which arc 
narrowly marginal with aureo-cupreous, and sometimes the margin 
behind scutellum narrowlj'^ cupreous; beneath aeneous, with an oliva- 
ceous tinge, and more shining and purpureous than above; tarsi 
cyaneous. 
Length, 10-14 mm.; width, 4-5.5 mm. 
This species is very closely allied to auronotata Castelnau and 
Gory, but differs from it as folloAvs : Form more slender, elytra more 
acuminate posteriorly, surface more finely punctured, and the spots 
smaller, round, and the four discal ones distinctly embossed, and of a 
clearer green color, narrowly margined aureo-cupreous; sides of 
prosternum more coarsely punctate, and the punctures more con- 
fluent. 
''Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3.S, 1914, p. 430. 
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Dejean (1833) lists hellula from Cuba and hellula^ var. sobrina 
Mannerheim, from Santo Dominj^o, without <i:iving any descriptions. 
Actenodes hellula, var. sohr'ma as used by Dejean is a manuscript 
name, but Mannerheim (1837) under the name of hellula gives a 
description of the A. hellula, var. sohrina Mannerheim listed by 
Dejean in his Catalogue from the island of Santo Domingo, and in 
which he writes, " Not possessing the real Actenodes hellula Dejean, 
I have been obliged to describe the variety." Since no description 
had been published of hellula, this name must be applied to the 
species described by Mannerheim from Santo Domingo, and sohrina 
Mannerheim will have to be placed as a synonym of that species. 
The specimen in the Dejean Collection under hellula Dejean from 
Cuba, will be the true auronotata Castelnau and Gory. 
Chevrolat (1867) records this species from Santo Domingo in the 
collection of (Dejean) Mnizech, and considers it distinct from 
auronotata. 
The species seems to be confined to Santo Domingo, and I have 
examined specimens from the following localities: Coll. British 
Mus. : Haiti, from the Chevrolat Collection. Coll. Mus. Comp. 
Zool. : Petionville and Manneville, Haiti (W. M. Mann). Coll. U. 
S. Nat. Mus. : Port-au-Prince, Haiti (R. J. Crew) received from H. 
W. Wickham. 
ACTENODES AURONOTATA (Castelnau and Gory) 
Actenodes bellula Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 80; 3 ed., 1836, 
p. 90. (No description.) 
Chrysobothris auronotata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, 
p. 20, pi. 4, fig. 30; addenda, p. 6. — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de 
la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. et Nat. de I'lle de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 
1857, (French edition) p. 64, pi. 7, fig. S; (Spanish edition), vol. 7, 
1857, p. 29 ; vol. 8, pi. 7, fig. 8. 
Actenodes auronotata Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, p. 584, (separates p. 160). — Gundlach, Contribucion h la En- 
tom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 168, No. 201. 
Actenodes bella LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 11, 1859, pp. 
240-241. 
Buprestis auriyuttata Sturm, Catal. Insecten Sammlung, 1826, p. 104. 
Chrysobothris aurigvttata Sturm, Catal. Kafer Sammlung, 1843, p. 61. 
Form broadly elongate and moderately convex, attenuate in front, 
more acuminate posteriorly, and narrower behind than in front, sub- 
opaque and glabrous, dark aeneous, with a feeble olivaceous or pur- 
pureous tinge; scutellum aureo-viridis ; elytra ornated with aureo- 
viridis markings, sometimes the markings strongly cupreous, but 
not embossed; beneath aeneous, with an olivaceous tinge, and more 
shining and purpureous than above; tarsi cyaneous. 
Head feebly convex, front nearly flat, triangular, with a feeble 
longitudinal groove extending from near the epistoma to the vertex, 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 89 
where it terminates abruptly into an acute elevation, there is also 
on each side of the groove at the posterior part of the front an ob- 
solete nodule; surface densely, irregularly and deeply punctate, the 
punctures very irregular in size, and becoming somewhat confluent on 
the epistoma; intervals densely and obsoletely granulose; epistoma 
broadly and feebl}^ emarginate, broadly rounded on each side of 
the emargination, and with a short obtuse tooth at the middle; eyes 
very large, rather acutely rounded at bottom, and nearly contiguous 
on occiput. Pronotum strongly transverse and moderately convex, 
two times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than behind, 
widest at base, with a distinct arcuate lateral carina, which curves 
inward toward the transverse impression; sides feebly arcuately 
rounded to the posterior angles, which are somew^hat projecting and 
widely separated from the elytra (sometimes the sides are rather 
strongly rounded at apical third, then feebly concave to the pos- 
terior angles) ; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a feeble 
median lobe ; base bisinuate, with the median lobe broadly and feebly 
rounded; surface abruptly declivous at the sides, with a transverse 
depression at the basal third, which is more deeply impressed on 
each side, and densely, irregularly and coarsely punctate, the punc- 
tures more elongate on the disk, and becoming somewhat confluent 
and rugose toward the sides; intervals finety, densely granulose. 
Scutellum triangular, all sides about equal in length. Elytra dis- 
tinctly wilder than pronotum at base, and with a feeble, broad basal 
depression ; sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel 
to apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are con* 
jointly broadly rounded; lateral margins strongly serrate to middle; 
base acutely lobed; surfaced without costae, densely, coarsely and 
deeply punctate, the punctures somewhat irregularly placed, be- 
coming nearly confluent at sides and on basal region; intervals 
finely and densely granulose; each elytron ornated with aureo- 
viridis spots as follows : An oblong spot at base near humeral angle ; 
two round spots placed transversely at middle, one near the lateral 
margin, the other on disk at middle; a round spot on disk at apical 
third, slightly closer to the suture than the median spot; the suture 
behind scutellum and near apex, and the lateral margin at humeral 
angle and near apex is also sometimes aureo-viridis wdth a cupreous 
tinge. Abdomen beneath moderately convex, sparsely and irregu- 
larly punctate, the punctures shallow and becoming somewhat strio- 
late on the sides of basal segment; intervals densely, obsoletely 
granulose, and with an obsolete longitudinal impression behind each 
puncture; last segment broadly truncate or obsoletely rounded at 
apex, with the angles prominent, armed on each side with a tooth 
in the female, and broadly and feebly angularly emarginate in the 
male. Prosternum short, broadly truncate and strongly declivous 
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in front, the surface densely, coarsely punctate, and transversely 
rugose on the anterior part; prosternal process flat, very strongly 
expanded behind the coxal cavities, the sides long, very acute, and 
separating the anterior and middle coxal cavities, the median tooth 
at apex long and acute. 
Length, 10-15 mm. ; width, 4.5-6.5 mm. 
This species was described by Castelnau and Gory (1836) from 
Cuba, and in figuring the species used the name auronoto, but this 
was changed to auronotata in their addenda (p. 6). LeConte (1859) 
described the same species from a single specimen from Libertj'^ 
County, Georgia, United States, under the name of helJa. Kerre- 
mans ^^ has erroneously placed this species as a synonym of hellula 
Mannerheim. 
Recorded from Cuba by Jacquelin Duval as the " Golden-marked 
Chrysobothris." Gundlach (1891) records it as found throughout 
the island of Cuba. Chevrolat (1867) says that it found over the en- 
tire island and in the collections of Gundlach, Poe3% and Chevrolat. 
I have examined specimens from the following localities. Coll. 
Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : Rio Seco, San Carlos Estate, Guantanamo, 
Cuba, June 20, 1912; male and female, Guantanamo, Cuba (Chas. 
T. Ramsden). Coll. Carnegie Mus.: Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, 
July 23, 1912. Coll. British Mus. : Cuba. Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : 
Trinidad, Cuba, April-May, 1912 (Joe Merrill) : Savannah, Georgia; 
Lake Worth, Florida, June 4; and Biscayne, Florida May 27 (Hub- 
bard and Schwarz) ; Marathon, Florida, Mar. 8, 1919 (Schwarz). 
Coll. S. C. Bruner: One specimen, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, 
May 20, 1923 (J. Acuna). Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.: One 
specimen, Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 340). This species is also repre- 
sented in the Gundlach Museum in Habana by a single example 
labeled No. 201, which was not available for study. 
ACTENODES AURONOTATA. var. JAMAICENSIS, new variety 
Form broadly elongate and moderately convex, attenuate in front, 
more acuminate posteriorly, and narrower behind than in front, 
moderately shining and glabrous; head reddish-cupreous, with the 
reliefs olivaceous-green; pronotum reddish-cupreous, and somewhat 
olivaceous-green on disk; scutellum green; elytra reddish-cupreous, 
with the base, suture, posterior half of lateral margin, narrowly 
margined with green, and each elytron ornated with bright green 
spots as follows: A large transverse spot at base; two large nearly 
confluent spots placed transversely just in front of middle, the outer 
one smaller, more oblong, and placed near the lateral margin, the 
other one large, round, and placed on the disk ; and an oblong fascia 
'* Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum. fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, p. 194. 
AKT. WEST INDIAN BUPBESTIDAE FISHER 91 
at apical third, which does not extend to the hiteral margin nor 
suture; beneath more shining than above, olivaceous-green with a 
strong reddish-cupreous reflection, the legs more reddish-cupreous, 
and the tarsi cyaneous. 
Length, 13 mm. ; width, 5.5 mm. 
Type locality. — Jamaica. 
Type. — ^W. J. Holland Collection. 
Faratype.—C^i. No. 26807, U.S.N.M. . 
Described from two specimens kindly loaned by Dr. W. J. Hol- 
land, and which were collected by F. Klages. There is also a speci- 
men loaned by the British Museum and labeled Jamaica 78-22, 
which I have placed with this variety. It differs from the type only 
in coloration, being more brownish-green, and not so reddish-cupre- 
ous as in the type. 
This species is very closely allied to auronotata Castelnau and 
Gory, but at least should be separated from that species as a good 
variet3^ It differs from it in the coloration, which is of a reddish- 
cupreous color, more shining, and not quite as convex, the elytra not 
quite as densely punctate and the punctures more widely separated, 
the base, suture, and posterior half of elytra margined with green, 
elytral spots bright green, the two in front of middle larger and 
nearly confluent, and with a short oblique fascia at apical third. 
Genus CHRYSOBOTHRIS Eschscholtz 
Chrysohotris Eschscholtz, ZooI. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9; reprint, p. 8. 
Chrysobothris Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 310- 
311, pi. 12, fig. 29.— I.AcoRDAiuE, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 75-76.— 
Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 183&-1837, pp. 1-59, pis. 1- 
10. — Keeremans, Wytsmans Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 
183-192.— HouA-, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, 1886, pp. 65-124, pis. 
2-7. 
Odontomus Kirey, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer., vol. 4, 1837, p. 156. 
Head vertical, much wider in front than on vertex; front even or 
uneven, narrowed hy the insertion of the antennae, and frequently 
separated from the vertex by a sharp transverse carina; epistoma 
broad, more or less sinuate or emarginate in front, and constricted 
posteriorly by the antennal cavities, which are small, rounded, and 
situated at a considerable distance from the eyes. Antennae moder- 
ately long; first joint elongate, clavate and feebly arcuate; second 
very short and globular; third elongate and more or less clavate; 
the first three joints as long as the following joints united; following 
joints triangular, usually transverse, and armed with a poriferous 
fovea situated on the interior margin of the joints. Eyes very large, 
elongate, inner margins very oblique, and much nearer to each other 
on vertex than at the front. Pronotum much wider than long, and 
variable in shape; base strongly bisinuate, frequently lobed at the 
92 PROCEEDINGS OP THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 65 
middle, the lobe sometimes strongly produced and truncate. Scu- 
tellum very small and triangular. Elytra variable, lobed at base, 
strongly attenuate posteriorly, with the sides near apex frequently 
serrate. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosterum and metaster- 
num; mesosternum divided, the lateral branches variable in shape; 
metasternum truncate in front, with a very feeble emargination at 
the middle. Prosternum flat or convex; anterior margin variable; 
prosternal process constricted by the coxal cavities, behind which it 
is strongly expanded, with a large acute tooth at the middle, which 
fits into the sternal cavity. Posterior coxae strongly dilated inter- 
nally; anterior margin subsinuate; posterior margin oblique. Legs 
rather robust ; femora swollen at middle, and the anterior pair more 
robust, sharf) on the inner margin and armed with a large obtuse 
tooth (very rarely the tooth is absent) ; anterior and middle tibiae 
more or less arcuate ; posterior pair straight ; tarsi compressed, first 
joint of posterior pair rather long, third joint feebly emarginate, 
and not armed with two long spines, the fourth very short; tarsal 
claws simple. Body oblong, rather broad, rarely elongate, and 
more attenuate behind than in front. 
The species of this genus are very numerous, and are found in 
nearly all parts of the world. Some of the species are of great 
economic importance, one of which occurs throughout the West 
Indies has become very injurious to the Australian Pine {Casuarina 
equisetifolia Forster) in the southern part of Florida, where this 
plant has been introduced for ornamental purposes. Of the other 
species found in this region, practically nothing is known of their 
life histories. 
This genus is closely allied to Actenodes, but can be easily sepa- 
rated from that genus by the absence of the two long spines on the 
third joint of the posterior tarsi. 
KEX TO THE SPECIES 
1. Base of pronotum produced into a large rectangular lobe at middle and 
nearly covering the scutellum ; prosternal process nearly smooth and very 
wide between the anterior coxal cavities, nearly two times as wide as 
the cavity sexpunctata (Fabricius). 
Base of pronotum not produced at middle, at most with only a broadly 
rounded median lobe : scutellum not covered ; prosternal process coarsely 
punctate and not much wider than the anterior coxal cavities 2. 
2. Pronotum uneven, with distinct depressions and elevations 3. 
Pronotum regularly convex, without depressions or elevations 6. 
3. Eyes nearly confluent on occiput, separated by less than one-fourth 
the distance between the antennal cavities 4. 
Eyes more widely separated on the occiput, separated by at least one- 
half the distance between the antennal cavities 5. 
4. Anterior femora with a large obtuse tooth on outer margin ; posterior 
foveae on elytra obcordate and situated between the second and fourth 
. ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 93 
costae ; last abdominal segment of female with two shallow semi-circular 
emarginations at apex tranquebarica (Gmelin). 
Anterior femora without a tooth on outer margin ; posterior foveae on 
elytra irregular and situated between the first and fourth costae; last 
abdominal segment of female broadly arcuately emarginate at apex. 
tumida Chevrolat. 
5. Elytra acuminate posteriorly and produced into a spine at apex. 
antillarum Fisher. 
Elytra broadly rounded at apex dentipes (Germar). 
6. Elytra acuminate at apex and prolonged into a spine at middle of each 
elytron . bella Fisher. 
Elytra rounded at apex, without a distinct median spine on each elytron- 7 
7. Sides of pronotuni strongly angulated near the apical angles 8 
Sides of pronotum not angulated 12. 
8. Pronotum with transverse green, violaceous, and reddish-cupreous fasciae 
quadrimaculata ( Fabr icius ) . 
Pronotum unicolored 9. 
9. Elytra with two green fasciae lepida Castelnau and Gory. 
Elytra without green fasciae, but with round green or concolorous depres 
sions 10 
10. Elytral spots feebly cupreous or concolorous, the posterior two placed 
transversely megacephala Castelnau and Gory. 
Elytral spots green, the posterior two placed obliquely 11. 
11. Epistoma with a narrow acutely rounded emargination at middle; elytral 
spots large, and with a green humeral spot on each elytron. 
chlorosticta Thomson. 
Epistoma broadly angularly emarginate in front; elytral spots small, and 
without the green humeral spots parvofoveata Fisher. 
12. Sides of pronotum widest near apical angles 13. 
Sides of pronotum regularly arcuate, widest near the middle 16. 
13. Pronotum dark aeneous; elytra violaceous-black, with transverse green and 
reddish-cupreous fasciae thomae Kerremans. 
Pronotum reddish-cupreous or violaceous 14. 
14. Pronotum violaceous-green ; elytra purpureous, with transverse green fa>;- 
ciae wolcotti Fisher. 
Pronotum reddish-cupreous; elytra brownish-aeneous, with greenish or 
violaceous markings 15. 
15. Each elytron with the base and two round discal spots green, and the basal 
and median foveae deeply impressed ; pronotum with rather sparsely 
placed elongate punctures hispaniolae Fisher. 
Each elytron with the base, suture at basal fourth, and two transverse 
fasciae green or olivaceous, the median foveae only feebly impressed ; 
pronotum with rather densely placed round punctures. 
thoracica (Fabricius). 
16. Anterior femora with the tooth serrate on the exterior margin. 
insulana Fisher. 
Anterior femora with the tooth not serrate on the exterior margin 17, 
17. Elytral markings golden-green ; antero-median spot transversely oblique and 
usually connected along the lateral margin with the transverse basal 
fascia ; pronotum arcuately rounded at sides sexfasciata Schaeffer. 
Elytral markings bluish-green, large, oblong, and not connected along the 
lateral margin to the basal fascia ; pronotum feebly arcuately rounded 
and nearly parallel at the sides sexfasciata, var. jamaicensis Fisher. 
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CHRYSOBOTHRIS SEXPUNCTATA (Fabricins) 
Buprestis impressa Olivier, EutomoL, vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 44-45, pi. 
5, fig. 42 (Name preoccupied) ; Enc. Method, vol. 5, Buprestis, 1790, p. 
226, no. 67.— Hekbst, Nat. Sy.st. Ins. Kafev, vol. 9, 1801, p. 233, pi. 
150, fig. 4. 
Buprestis scxpunctata Fabhicius, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, 1801, p. 206, no. 
111.— ScHONHEKR, Syu. Ids., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1817, p. 255, no. 216. 
Buprestis splendens Voet, Catal. Coleopt., vol. 1, 1801, p. 96, pi. 51, fig. 20. 
Colobogaster scxpunctata Castelnau and Goky, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, p. 
9, pi. 2, fig. 7. 
Chrysobothris scxpunctata AVaterhouse, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Coleopt., vol. 
3, pt. 1, 1887, p. 35. 
Male. — Form broadly oblong, and moderately convex, subopaque ; 
color green, with a strong cupreous or aureous tinge, each elytron 
ornated with three round green impressed spots, and arranged as 
follow^s: One at the basal lobe, the second on middle of disk just in 
front of the middle, and a smaller one at apical third, placed closer 
to the lateral margin than the suture ; beneath green, tip of abdomen 
and tarsi cyaneous. 
Head nearly flat, wdth the front long, triangular, and the sides 
obliquely narrowed to the apex; occiput rather narrow and feebly 
longitudinally carinate, front with a broad transverse crescent - 
shaped depression, which is more deeply longitudinally impressed 
at the middle, causing an arcuate elevation behind and two semi- 
circular elevations in front, there is also a narrow deep groove ex- 
tending arcuately around the antennal cavities, and connected to a 
much deeper transverse groove behind the epistoma ; vertex with an 
obsolete chevron-shaped groove; surface coarsel}'^ and rather densely 
punctate, the punctures somew^hat confluent on the front, and ir- 
regularly placed; intervals finely and densely granulose; eyes very 
large, strongly convex, about evenly rounded at bottom and top, 
and separated on the occiput by one-half the distance between the 
antennal cavities, which are surrounded by a narrow circular de- 
pression, bordered posteriorly by a sharp arcuate carina; epistoma 
broadly angularly emarginate at middle, with the lobe on each side 
strongly angulated at middle; antennae rather long, third joint 
cylindrical, clavate, and about as long as the following four joints 
united. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and one-half times as 
Avide as long at median lobe, widest just in front of middle, apex 
and base about equal in width; sides obliquely expanded to near 
middle, where the}^ are emarginate and abruj^tly declivous, then 
arcuately rounded to the posterior angles, which are acute, the lateral 
margin sharply defined, extending from base to apical third and 
not visible from above; anterior margin nearly sti-aight, with an 
obsolete median lobe ; base very deeply arcuately emarginate on each 
side at the elvtral lobe, with the median lobe strongly produced 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 95 
backward, and feebly broadly rounded at the apex; surface feebly 
convex, with a rather deep, round depression on each side of disk 
in front of elytral lobe, sparsely and rather deeply punctate, the 
punctures irregular in size and well separated; intervals finely and 
densely granulose. Scutellum very small and nearly concealed by 
the median lobe of pronotum. Elytra distinctly wider than prono- 
tum at base ; sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly paral- 
lel to apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
produced into an acute tooth near the suture ; lateral margins finely, 
obsoletely serrate to near the middle, the teeth very short and irregu- 
larly placed ; humeri rather prominent ; base produced into a broadly 
rounded lobe; surface finely and rather densely punctate, the inter- 
vals obsoletely granulose ; each elytron w ith an obsolete longitudinal 
costa along suture behind the middle, a similar one along the lateral 
margin, and with three round green depressed spots as noted above. 
Abdomen beneath densely and finely punctate, with spots of dense 
pubescence on the sides of the segments, and the intervals obsoletely 
granulose and more shining than above; first segment feebly im- 
pressed at middle; last segment deeply longitudinally concave, and 
the lateral margins with a distinct emargination near the apex, with- 
out a serrate submarginal ridge, the apex deeply and arcuately 
emarginate, with a strongly elevated longitudinal carina on each 
side of the emargination. Prosternum with a broadly rounded 
median lobe in front, surface somewhat gibbose, sparsely and very 
finely punctate, and the intervals obsoletely granulose; prosternal 
process feebly convex, very wide between the coxal cavities, only 
feebly dilated behind them, and the apex with a short triangular 
tooth. Femora robust; anterior pair with a broad round obtuse 
tooth on the outer edge, placed closer to the apex than base, and 
strongly dentate on the exterior margin. Anterior and middle 
tibiae strongly arcuate, the former flattened on the inner surface, 
but without any dilatation; the posterior pair straight and sub- 
cylindrical. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the first abdominal seg- 
ment more deepl}- depressed at middle, and the apex of the last ven- 
tral segment not as deeply emarginate, and the emargination more 
broadly, and not acutely arcuate. 
Length, 15 mm. ; width, 6.5 mm. 
Described from South America by Fabricius without giving any 
definite locality. The species is rather common throughout the 
northern part of South America and has been recorded from Nica- 
ragua, but has not been previously reported from the West Indies. 
In the United States National Museum collection are two specimens 
labeled Barbados, W. I., February 2, 1908 (F. J. Clarke-Ballou 
No. 969). 
455.54— 25— Proe.N.M.vol.65 17 
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CHRYSOBOTHRIS TRANQUEBARICA (Gmelin) 
Buprcstis iniprcssa Fabricius, Mant. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 182, no. 61. 
( Preoccupied. ) 
Buprestis tranquetarica Gmelin, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13 ed., vol. 1, pt. 4, 
1788, p. 1932, no. 74. 
Buprestis excavata Oliviek, Enc. Method., vol. 5, 1790, Buprestis, p. 232, 
no. 95.— Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1792, p. 206, no. 84; Syst. 
Eleuth., voL 2, 1801, p. 205, no. 105. 
ChrysobotJiris fratern<i Manneeheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 
no. 8, 1837, pp. 75-76. 
ChrysobotJiris ruyosa Mannekheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 
no. 8, 1837, pp. 74-75. 
Chrysohothris denticulata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 
p. 46, pi. 8, fig. 62. 
ChrysobotJiris dcnticoJIis Goey, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1840, p. 178, pi. 
30, fig. 173. 
CJirysobotJiris impressa Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, p. 586 (separates p. 162). — Gundlach, Contribucion k la Entom. 
Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 169-170 ; An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., ser. 2, 
vol. 22, 1894, p. 623.— Stahl, Fauna de Puerto Rico, 1882, p. 171. 
CJirysobotJiris tranquebarica Fleutiaux and Sall^;, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
ser. 6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 404 (separates p. 54). — Fisher, Proc. Ent. Soc. 
Wash., vol. 20, 1918, pp. 173-177. — Snyder, Journ. Agri. Research, vol. 
16, 1919, pp. 155-163, pis. 18-21, text figs. 1-2. 
Male. — Form short, rather broad, and strongly depressed, sub- 
opaque; head cupreous or aeneous, with the epistoma auro-viridis ; 
pronotum and elytra dark aeneous; each elytron with four foveae, a 
deep one at basal lobe, a more shallow one near humerus, a large 
bilobed one on disk near middle, interrupting the second costa, and 
an obcordate one at apical third, situated between the second and 
fourth costae, usually the foveae are concolorous, but sometimes the 
discal ones are of a lighter shade, and rarely of a reddish-cupreous 
color ; beneath dark aeneous and more shining than above. 
Head flat, with the front triangular and the sides very strongly 
obliquely narrowed to the vertex; occiput very narrow, and with a 
distinct longitudinal carina, which is sometimes feebly forked ante- 
riorly and forming a chevron; front flat, deeply transversely im- 
pressed behind the epistoma, with a short sinuate carina behind 
each antennal cavity, and a more elevated one at middle of front, 
the carinae not extending entirely to the margins, there is also a 
narrow groove extending arcuately around the antennal cavities and 
margined posteriorly by a short elevated carina ; surface densely and 
coarsely punctate, the punctures confluent, and the reliefs forming 
a network of irregular polygonal areas, rather densely clothed with 
very fine, long inconspicuous hairs ; eyes very large, strongly convex, 
more acutely rounded on top than at bottom, and nearly confluent 
on the occiput; epistoma narrow, elevated, broadly triangularly 
emarginate at middle, with the lobes broadly rounded; antennae 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 97 
rather long, very pubescent, third joint as long- as the following 
three joints united, the outer joints compact. Pronotum strongly 
transverse, more than two times as wide as long, widest along middle, 
slightly narrower in front than behind; sides obliquely expanded 
from apex to apical third, then nearly parallel and feebly sinuate 
to basal third, and finally arcuately attenuate to the posterior angles, 
which are nearly rectangular; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, 
without a distinct median lobe; base arcuately emarginate on each 
side at the elytral lobe, with a broadly rounded median lobe, which 
is subtruncate in front of scutellum; disk moderately convex, with 
an obsolete median depression, on each side of which, is an oblique 
post-apical one, and three other feebly impressed ones between the 
middle and side ; surface coarsely and deeply punctate, the punctures 
Avell separated on the disk, but becoming denser and somewhat 
confluent at the sides ; intervals nearly smooth. Scutellum moderately 
large, longer than wide, and the surface obsoletely granulose. Elytra 
wider than pronotum at base, but about equal in width to it at mid- 
dle; sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to 
apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are obtusely 
rounded; lateral margins strongly serrate to the humeral angles; 
humeri moderately prominent; base with a rather acutely angulated 
lobe; disk feebly convex, and each elytron with four costae, the 
first extending to apex along suture, elevated to basal third, then 
continuing as a smooth line to basal fovea, the second feebly ele- 
vated, beginning at the basal depression, interrupted by the median 
fovea, and continuing to the posterior fovea, the third feebly ele- 
vated, and extending between the median and posterior foveae, and 
the fourth rather strongly elevated, extending along the lateral 
margin behind the posterior fovea, but not attaining the apex; 
surface coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures regular in size, 
but becoming denser and more confluent toward the sides; intervals 
smooth. Abdomen beneath sparsely and very coarsely punctate, 
the punctures elongate, with the posterior margins not well defined, 
sparsely clothed with long cinereous hairs, the intervals obsoletely 
granulose, sides of segments with flat smooth spaces and the poste- 
rior angles prolonged into an acute tooth; first segment broadly 
concave ; last segment with the lateral margins entire, with a strongly 
elevated serrate submarginal ridge, and deeply arcuately emarginate 
at the apex. Prosternum broadly rounded in front, and without 
a median lobe ; surface transversely depressed along anterior margin, 
sparsely, finely punctate, transversely rugose, and sparsely clothed 
with long cinereous hairs; prosternal process flat, strongly expanded 
behind coxal cavities, and the apex with a long triangular tooth. 
Femora robust, anterior pair with a large obtuse tooth on the outer 
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edge, situated closer to the apex than base, and feebly dentate on 
the exterior margin. Anterior tibiae suddenly reflexed at middle 
and not dilated at apex; middle pair strongly arcuate; posterior 
pair straight. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the front of head less 
pubescent and the chevron on vertex more distinct, anterior and 
middle tibiae nearly straight, the last ventral segment of abdomen 
with a broad median carina at base, a depression on each side, and 
the apex with two shallow semi-circular emarginations, the median 
tooth short and the lateral ones long and acute. 
Length, 12-16 mm. ; width, 5-7 mm. 
There has been considerable confusion in regard to the identifica- 
tion of this species. This insect is a common and destructive enemy 
of the red mangrove {Rhizophora mangle Linnaeus) but did not 
become of any great economic importance until about the year 1916, 
when it attacked the Australian Pine {Casuarina equisetifolia Fors- 
ter) planted in southern Florida for shade and ornamental purposes. 
As this insect is rather widely distributed throughout the West In- 
dies, and the Australian pine is also being planted in these islands, 
it may become an economic problem in that region. The specimens 
do not seem to vary except in the coloration of the elytral foveae, in 
some specimens the foveae are unicolorous with the elytra, while in 
others they are distinctly purplish. It has a rather wide distribu- 
tion, having been taken in nearly all of the Antilles and the southern 
part of Florida. So far, there are no authentic records of it having 
been collected in Cuba, and this is rather strange, since its natural 
food plant is found on this island. The only other species with 
which it could be confused is tumida Chevrolat, described from 
Cuba, but is easily separated from that species by the anterior 
femora having a large obtuse tooth on the outer margin. 
Fabricius (1787) described the species from " Tranquebarica " 
under the name impressa, which he had previously used (1775) for 
another species from " Indiis." Gmelin (1788) proposed the new 
name tranqueharica for this species. Olivier (1790) proposed a new 
name excavata for the same species, and this name was used by 
Fabricius in all his later works. Fabricius and Olivier, either did 
not loiow of Gmelin's work, or would not recognize his names, as 
the name tranqueharica was not used by either of these writers in 
their works. Mannerheim (1837) described the species as fraterna 
from Porto Rico, and vugosa from an unknown locality. Castelnau 
and Gory (1837) described denticulata from Guadeloupe, and gives 
an excellent figure of the species, which is the species found in 
Florida, but in their addenda places it as a synonym of fraterna 
Mannerheim. Gorj*^ (1840) described denticoUis from Colombia, 
which is not different from denticulata. Chevrolat (1867) records 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 99 
it from Santo Domingo and Guadeloupe, in the collection of the 
author, and writes that it is common in these two islands and prob- 
ably will be found in Cuba. Gundlach (1891) records it from the 
same localities. Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record it from Guade- 
loupe: Camp Jacobs (Delauney) ; Basse-Terre, ''dans les poteaux 
de la cour du seminaire" (P. Coste) (Vitrac). Snyder (1919) re- 
cords the habits of this species in Florida and gives methods for 
combating it. It is also recorded by Gundlach (1894), and Stahl 
(1882) from Porto Rico. 
Specimens have been examined from the following localities: 
Coll. British Mus. : St. Domingue and Guadeloupe (Coll. Chevro- 
lat) ; St. Thomas; Caliveny Est, windward side, Grenada (H. H. 
Smith). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: Higueral, Santo Domingo, April 11, 
1913 (J. R. Johnson) ; Mayaguez, Porto Rico, May 20, 1914 (R. H. 
Van Zwalenburg) ; Higueral, Santo Domingo, February, 1916 (E. G. 
Smyth) . Coll. H. W. Wickham : Port-au-Prince, Haiti (R. J. Crew) . 
Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. : Grande Riviere, St. Marc and Cape Haitien, 
Haiti (W. H. Mann). Coll. Porto Rico Exp. Sta. : San Sebastian, 
Porto Rico, April 20, 1921 (G. N. Wolcott). Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. 
Hist.: Mangrove Cay, Andros Island, Bahamas, May-June (W. H. 
Mann) ; Mayaguez, Porto Rico, May 30, 1914 (R. H. Van Zwalen- 
burg) ; Sanchez, May 21, 1915, and San Lorenzo, June 29, 1915, 
Dominican Republic (F. E. Watson) ; Mannville, Gaure road, Haiti, 
Feb. 6, 1922 (F. E. Watson). 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS TUMIDA Chevrolat 
Chrysoltothrls ttimida Chevrolat, Aim. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, p. 585 (separates p. 161). — Gundlach, Contribucion H la Entom. 
Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 168-169, no. 839. 
Female. — Form short and broad, strongly depressed, subopaque; 
color above dark aeneous, with a strong purpureous reflection; each 
elytron with ten feeble purpureous or concolorous foveae, four of 
which are distinct and the remainder more or less obsolete, and ar- 
ranged as follows: A deep round one at basal lobe, a narrow trans- 
verse obsolete one along base near humeral angle, a broad and deeper 
one behind the second, a broad obsolete one along suture behind the 
first, three small obsolete ones along lateral margin behind the 
humerus, a large distinct bilobed one on disk near middle, interrupt- 
ing the second costa, a distinct zigzag one at apical third, situated 
between the first and fourth costae, and partially interrupted by the 
third coata, and an elongate obscure one near the apex; beneath 
aeneous, more shining than above, and with strong purpureous 
reflections. 
Head flat, with the front triangular, and the sides very strongly 
obliquely narrowed to the vertex; occiput very narrow and longi- 
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tudinally carinate; front flat, deeply transversely impressed behind 
the ej)istoma, and with two transverse irregular elevations, which are 
more or less obsolete and extending nearly to the e3^es, there is also 
a narrow groove extending around the antennal cavities and mar- 
gined posteriorly by a short elevated carina; vertex with a distinct 
transverse arcuate smooth elevation extending to the eyes; surface 
densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures confluent, irregular in 
shaj^e and size, and rather sparsely clothed with long, fine, erect 
hairs, which do not conceal the surface; eyes large, more acutely 
rounded on top than at bottom, and nearly confluent on the occiput ; 
epistoma narrow, elevated, broad triangularly emarginate at the 
middle, with the lobes broadly rounded; antennae rather long, and 
very pubescent, third joint as long as the following three joints 
united, the outer joints compact. Pronotum strongly transverse, two 
and one-half times as wide as long, widest along middle, slightly 
narrower in front than behind; sides obliquely expanded to apical 
third, then parallel to basal third, and finally strongly concavely 
attenuate to the posterior angles, which are rectangular; anterior 
margin arcuately emarginate, Avithout a median lobe; base broadly 
arcuately emarginate on each side at the elytral lobes, with a broadly 
rounded median lobe, which is broadly and feebly emarginate in 
front of scutellum; disk moderately convex, with a very feeble 
median depression, and on each side of which is a round deep de- 
pression in front of elytral lobe, and a deeper transverse one along 
the anterior margin, there are also two more or less obsolete irregular 
depressions at the sides; surface coarsely and densely punctate, the 
punctures irregularly placed, and becoming coarser and confluent at 
the sides; intervals nearly smooth. Scutellum very long and acum- 
inate at apex, and the surface obsoletely granulose. Elytra wider 
than pronotum at base, but almost equal in width to it at the middle ; 
sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to apical 
third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are obtusely 
rounded; lateral margins strongly serrate to the humeral angles; 
humeri moderately prominent; base with a rather acutely rounded 
lobe ; disk feebly convex, and each elytron with four costae, the first 
extending from apex along suture, and elevated to basal third, where 
it becomes obsolete, the second feebly elevated, beginning at the pos- 
terior fovea, extending forward to near the base, and interrupted by 
the median fovea, the third feebly elevated and extending from the 
median fovea to near the apex, and narrowly interrupted by the pos- 
terior fovea, and the fourth rather strongly elevated, extending along 
the lateral margin behind the posterior fovea, but not quite attaining 
the apex ; surface coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures denser 
and more confluent in the foveae and toward the sides; intervals 
smooth. Abdomen beneath coarsely and sparsely punctate, with the 
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posterior margins not well defined, sparsely clothed with long recum- 
bent hairs along sides, and the intervals obsoletely granulose ; sides of 
segments with flat smooth spaces and the posterior angles produced 
into an acute tooth ; first segment feebly concave at middle ; last seg- 
ment with the lateral margins entire, with a strongly elevated serrate 
submarginal ridge, and broadly, but not deeply arcuately emarginate 
at apex. Prosternum broadly and obsoletely emarginate in front, 
without a median lobe ; surface transversely depressed along anterior 
margin, sparsely and rather coarsely punctate, transversely rugose 
anteriorly, and sparsely clothed with long cinereous hairs ; prosternal 
process flat, strongly expanded behind the coxal cavities, and the 
apex with a long triangular tooth. Anterior and middle femora 
moderatel}^ robust, the former without the usual large tooth; poste- 
rior pair subcylindrical and not enlarged at middle. Anterior and 
middle tibiae feebly arcuate and subcylindrical; posterior pair 
straight. 
Length, 15 mm. ; width, 7.5 mm. 
The locality given by Chevrolat (1867) in the original description 
is Cuba, from the central part of the island in the collections of 
Gundlach and Poey, Gundlach (1891) records it from Cuba with- 
out giving any additional notes. 
The above description Avas made from two female specimens 
kindly loaned by the Academy Natural Sciences Philadelphia, and 
labeled Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 986). (One of these specimens has 
been donated to the U. S. National Museum). There is also a single 
example of this species labeled No. 839 in the Gundlach Museum in 
Habana, which has not been available for studA^ 
The species is very closely allied to tranqueharica Gmelin and 
might be easily mistake for that species. It is, however, easily dis- 
tinguished from that species by the anterior femora not having the 
usual large tooth on the outer margin, by being broader in propor- 
tion to its length, sides of pronotum parallel at middle, posterior 
foveae on the elytra more irregular and extending between the first 
and fourth costae, and the last ventral segment of the abdomen in 
the female broadly, but not deeply arcuately emarginate at the apex, 
while in tranqueharica the female has two semi-circular emargina- 
tions at the apex. The species seems to be rare in collections, as no 
specimens have been recorded except the ones mentioned by Chev- 
rolat in the Gundlach and Poey Collections. It seems to be confined 
to Cuba, and probably has a different food plant from tranqueharica. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS ANTILLARUM, new species 
Female. — Elongate, rather broad and moderately convex, sub- 
opaque; head green, Avith the median parts violaceous-black; prono- 
tum aeneous, with obsolete violaceous-black areas, and anteriorly mar- 
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gined with green; scutellum and elytra violaceous-black, the latter 
with the sutural margins green, and each elytron with three deeplj?^ 
depressed green foveae, one at the basal lobe, the second on middle 
of disk just in front of middle, and the posterior one at apical third, 
situated closer to the lateral margin than the suture; beneath vio- 
laceous-black, with the median parts green. 
Head feebly convex, with the front triangular, and the sides fee- 
bly arcuately rounded ; occiput narrow and obsoletely longitudinally 
carinate; front with a broad concavity, which is deeper at the 
epistoma ; vertex with an obtuse elevation, not extending to the sides, 
and behind which, is an obsolete arcuate carina forming an acute arc 
with the sides of front; surface coarsely and densel}^ punctate, the 
punctures shallow, irregular and confluent on the front, becoming 
finer along eyes and on occiput, bottom of punctures finely granulose. 
and the intervals smooth, sparsely clothed with rather long incon- 
spicuous hairs ; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at 
bottom than on top, and separated on the occiput by one-half the 
distance between the antennal cavities; epistoma very deeply nar- 
rowly and acutely emarginate in front, the lobe on each side form- 
ing an arc from the bottom of the emargination, and becoming 
nearly transverse at the sides; antennae moderately long, third joint 
broad, strongly clavate, and about as long as the following three 
joints united. Pronotum very strongly transverse, slightly more 
than two times as wide as long, widest at apical third, narrower 
behind than in front; sides strongly but not acutely angulate at 
apical third, then feebly sinuate and strongly obliquely attenuate to 
the posterior angles, which are nearly rectangular; anterior mar- 
gin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded obsolete median 
lobe; base broadly angularly emarginate on each side at elytral 
lobes, the median lobe broadly rounded, and broadly truncate in 
front of scutellum; surface somewhat uncA^en and feebly convex, 
with a broad obsolete impression at middle, and a smaller oblong 
one on each side, there is also a broad transverse impression along 
anterior margin at middle, and the sides are abruptly declivous, the 
lateral margins sharp, straight, and not visible posteriorly from 
above, sparsely and deeply punctate, the punctures rather fine on 
the disk, but becoming coarser and more confluent toward the sides, 
the surface is also feebly transversely rugose on disk, more irregu- 
larly rugose at sides, and the intervals finely and densely granulose. 
Scutellum very small, triangular, with the sides equal in length and 
the surface obsoletely granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pro- 
notum at base; sides broadly angularly rounded at humeral angles, 
nearly parallel to apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 
which are produced into an acute tooth at the middle of each elytron; 
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lateral margins strongly serrate to the middle ; humeri rather promi- 
nent : base strongly angularly lobed ; surface densely and finely punc- 
tate, the punctures becoming coarser, confluent and somewhat rugose at 
the "sides, the intervals finely and densel}^ granulose ; each elytron with 
a distinct longitudinal carina along suture, extending from the apex 
to middle, and a more obsolete one along the lateral margin, there is 
a broad shallow impression at the humerus, and three deep round 
green ones on the disk as mentioned above. Abdomen beneath 
sparsely and coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow posteriorly, 
irregularly placed, and from each one arises a rather long erect hair ; 
intervals nearly smooth; first segment broadly, but feebly impressed 
at middle; last segment with the lateral margins entire, without a 
submarginal ridge, and the apex with tw^o semi-circular emargina- 
tions, the median tooth nearly as long, but more obtuse than the 
lateral ones. Prosternum with a distinct broadly rounded median 
lobe in front, behind which, the surface is broadly depressed; sur- 
face very coarsely punctured posteriorly, finely, transversely rugose 
in front, and sparsely clothed with long inconspicuous hairs; pros- 
ternal process nearly flat, strongly expanded behind the coxal cavi- 
ties, and with a large triangular tooth at apex. Femora robust; 
anterior pair Avith a large obtuse tooth on the outer edge near mid- 
dle, which is strongly dentate on the exterior margin. Anterior and 
middle tibiae arcuate, the former flattened on the inner surface, and 
Avithout any dilatations; posterior pair straight and subcylindrical. 
Length, 12 mm. ; width, 5 mm. 
Type locality. — Bridgetown, Barbados. 
Type. — Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
Described from a single female collected at the type locality by 
Dayton Stoner on May 11, 1918. It is closely allied to G. cordicollis 
described by Castelnau and Gory from South America. Since their 
description is so short and incomplete, and the specimen before me 
does not entirely agree with the description given by these authors, 
I am describing it as new. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS DENTIPES (Germar) 
Buprestis dentipes Germak, Ins. Spec. Novae, vol. 1, 1824, pp. 38-39, No. 63. 
Buprestis characteristica Hakeis, New England Farmer, ser. 1, vol. 8, 1829, 
p. 2, no. 1. 
Chrysohothris dentipes Mannerheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 
10, No, 8, 1837, p. 76. 
Chrysohothris plicata Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. SO; 3 ed., 
1836, p. 90. (No description.) 
Chrysohothris planata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 
Chrysohothris, pp. 56-57, pi. 10, flg. 77. 
Chrysohothris posticaUs Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 
Chrysohothris, p. 56, pi. 10, fig. 76. 
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Buprestis ruficoruu Sturm, Catal. Ins. Sammlung, 1826, p. 105. 
Chrysohothris ruficornis Stubm, Catal. Kafer Sammlung, 1843, p. 61. 
Chrysobothris rotundicoUis Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 
Chrysohothris, p. 51, pi. 9, fig 69. 
Male. — Form broadly elongate, strongly depressed, and subopaque ; 
color dark aeneous with a cupreous tinge; elytra Avith numerous 
irregular smooth costae; antennae aeneous, with joints four to 
eleven in greater part testaceous; beneath cupreous, and more shin- 
ing than above. 
Head feebly convex, with the front fiat and triangular, and the 
sides obliquely narrowed to the vertex, where they are feebly arcu- 
ately expanded; occiput rather wide, with a broad sm^ooth longi- 
tudinal carina, which is grooved in the middle; front somewhat 
uneven, but without distinct impressions; vertex without transverse 
carina ; surface coarsely, densely, and irregularly punctate, the punc- 
tures shallow and confluent, forming a network of irregular polyg- 
onal areas, the sides of which are smooth and in some places 
sharply elevated and rugose, rather densely clothed with long, very 
fine erect hairs, which do not conceal the surface; eyes not very 
large, narrow, feebly convex, bottom and top about equal in width, 
but more truncate at the bottom, and separated on the occiput by 
about the same distance that separates the antennal cavities; epis- 
toma depressed, broadly triangularly emarginate in front, with the 
lobe on each side strongly angulate at the middle; antennae rather 
long, third joint only a little longer than the fourth, and the fol- 
lowing joints very compact. Pronotum strongly transverse, nearly 
two times as wide as long, widest at apical third, slightly narrower 
behind than in front; sides broadly rounded to apical third, then 
feebly sinuate and obliquely attenuate to the posterior angles, which 
are rectangular; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with an 
obsolete median lobe ; base bisinuate, with a very broad median lobe, 
which is broadly truncate in front of scutellum; surface uneven, the 
disk moderately convex, with a broad median sulcus, wider in front 
and limited on either side by a broad elevated smooth space, between 
which and the margin are two large irregular depressions, one near 
the anterior margin and the other at base, the latter margined pos- 
teriorly with an acutely elevated carina, surface also densely and 
coarsely punctate, the punctures irregularly placed and becoming 
confluent in the depressions and at sides. Scutellum small, trian- 
gular, with the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletelj^ 
granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides 
broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to apical third, 
then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are separately, narrowly 
rounded ; lateral margins feebly serrate to the middle, the teeth very 
short and more closely placed toward the apex; humeri not very 
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ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 105 
prominent; base broadly rounded, without a distinct lobe; disk 
rather flat, with a deep basal depression, the first costa along suture 
distinct on apical half, terminating in front in a vague, smooth 
space, between this costa and lateral margin are three somewhat 
transverse, broad smooth spaces of irregular shape, the surface be- 
tween these is densely, coarsely, and irregularly punctate. Abdomen 
beneath coarsely but not very closely punctate, the punctures with 
the posterior margins not well defined, and from the center of each 
arises a very short inconspicuous hair ; intervals nearly smooth ; first 
segment feebly depressed at middle ; last segment longitudinally 
depressed along lateral margins, which are serrate, without a sub- 
marginal ridge, and with the apex broadly arcuately emarginate. 
Prosternum truncate in front and without a median lobe; surface 
coarsely and sparsely punctate, more densely and finely along the 
anterior margin, and sparsely clothed with long inconspicuous cine- 
reous hairs ; prosternal process nearly flat, strongly expanded behind 
the coxal cavities, and with a large acute triangular tooth at apex. 
Femora robust: anterior pair with a large obtuse tooth on the outer 
edge, closer to the apex than base, and serrate on the exterior margin. 
Anterior and middle tibiae rather strongly arcuate, flattened on the 
inner surface and feebly dilated near the apex ; posterior pair feebly 
arcuate and subcylindrical. 
Female. — Di fibers from the male in having the head a little more 
convex, more coarsely punctured, not as pubescent, and with more 
or less distinct smooth callosities; last abdominal segment with a 
very sm'all acute emargination at apex; anterior and middle tibiae 
only feebly arcuate and the posterior pair straight. 
Length, 10-18 mm. ; width, 4-7 mm. 
This species is easily distinguished from any other species of this 
genus found in the West Indies by the antennae having joints four 
to eleven in the greater part distinctly testaceous. 
The species was described by Germar (1824) from North Americ'a, 
and later under a number of names as given above by various 
authors. The species is rather common and is found throughout 
the greater part of the United States, the larvae living in various 
species of pine. Castelnau 'and Gory (1837) described rotundicollis 
from Saint Domingo, and the following is a translation of their 
original description : 
Dark aeneous, strongly punctured. Thorax rounded on the sides, 
with two elevated longitudinal lines, more obscure at the middle. 
Elytra with irregular, cupreous impressions, of which the two most 
prominent are situated a little posteriorly. Body and feet cupreous. 
Length, 6 lines; width, 21/4 lines. 
A specimen received from the British Museum and labeled Haiti, 
Saunders 74-18, agrees with the figure and description of rotundi- 
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collis^ although their description is short and does not inchide the 
essential characters used at present for separating the species of 
this genus. In comi^aring this specimen with specimens of dentipes 
Germar from the United States, I can not find any differences. 
These authors ^^ give a figure of a species which they have identi- 
fied as dentipes Germar, but it is certainly not the species described 
by Germar from North America, and since Castelnau and Gory 
apj)arently did not know the true dentipes, I am inclined to place 
rotundicoUis as a synonym of dentipes Germar. There is a unique 
specimen under the name rotundicoUis in the British Museum, but 
the specimen has not been examined. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS BELLA, new species 
Female. — Form rather broad and moderately convex, and shining ; 
above bright bluish-green, and each elytron ornated with reddish- 
purpureous markings, all of which are obsoletely separated from 
the suture, and arranged as follows: One covering basal fourth, 
arcuately rounded posteriorly, and enclosing the green basal depres- 
sion and humerus; a rather broad transverse fascia just behind the 
middle, the margins irregular and expanded both near the suture 
and lateral margin; and a rather narrow crescent-shaped fascia at 
apical third, feebly oblique, with the concavity toward the apex; 
beneath green; tarsi cyaneous. 
Head flat, with the front triangular, and the sides obliquely nar- 
rowed to apex; occiput narrowly and longitudinally carinate; front 
broadly and irregularly impressed, the impression causing an obso- 
lete transverse elevation near vertex, in front of which the impres- 
sion is deeper, and extending longitudially on each side to the 
antennal cavities; surface very coarsely and irregularly punctate, 
and the front sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs ; inter- 
vals finely and densely granulose; eyes large, strongly convex, more 
arcuately rounded at bottom than on top, and separated on the 
occiput by about one-half the distance between the antennal cavi- 
ties; epistoma broadly angularly emarginate in front, and the lobes 
broadly rounded; antennae short, third joint as long as the follow- 
ing four joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, nearly two 
times as wide as long, widest near apex, slightly narrower behind 
than in front; sides rather strongly angulated near apex, slightly 
sinuate at middle, then feebly arcuately rounded to posterior angles, 
which are rather acute and closely applied to the elytra; anterior 
margin feebly arcuately emarginate, with an obsolete median lobe; 
base very strongly angularly emarginate on each side at the elytral 
lobes, the median lobe broadly rounded, and truncate in front of 
'"Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, Chrysobothris, p. 52, pi. 9, fig. 70. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE— FISHER 107 
scutellum; surface evenly convex, without impressions, but trans- 
versely rugose, and coarsely, sparsely punctate, the punctures ir- 
regularly placed, and becoming denser and more oblong toward the 
sides; intervals finely and densely granulose. Scutellum small, tri- 
angular, with the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely 
granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides 
broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to middle, then 
strongly, arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are produced into 
an acute tooth at the middle of each elytron; lateral margins 
strongly serrate to middle, with the teeth rather widely separated: 
humeri moderately prominent ; base strongly angularly lobed ; surface 
without costae, but each elytron with a round deep impression behind 
the basal lobe, as shallow one near humerus, and with a very feeble im- 
pression on the median and postmedian green fasciae, sparsely and 
regularly punctate, the punctures much coarser and denser on the 
green fasciae, and becoming nearlj'- obsolete at the apex; intervals 
finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath coarsely and very 
irregularly punctate; first and second segments feebly depressed at 
middle; last segment with the lateral margins entire, without a 
serrate submarginal ridge, and the apex with two deep semicircular 
emarginations, with the median tooth as long as the lateral ones. 
Prosternum with a narrow declivous lobe at middle ; surface sparsely, 
coarsely punctate, and somewhat rugose, and sparsely clothed with 
recumbent cinereous hairs; prosternal process flat, strongly ex- 
panded behind the coxal cavities, and with a triangular tooth at 
apex ; anterior coxal cavities separated by about their own diameter. 
Femora robust; anterior pair armed with a large rounded tooth on 
outer margin near middle, the tooth with a double row of fine 
teeth on its exterior margin. Anterior tibiae flattened, feebly 
arcuate, and without any dilatations; middle and posterior pairs 
subcylindrical and straight. 
Length, 7-9.5 mm. ; width, 8.2-4 mm. 
Ty'pe locality. — Mustique Island, Grenadines, W. I. (H. H. 
Smith). 
Other localities. — ^Woburn (south end), Grenada, W. I. (H. H. 
Smith). 
Type. — British Museum. 
Paratype.—Q^t. No. 26808, U.S.N.M. 
Described from two females received from the British Museum. 
The type is from Mustique, and the paratype, which only differs 
from the type in being smaller, is from Woburn, both specimens 
having been collected by H. H. Smith. The species is very closely 
allied to pulchra Castelnau and Gory described from South America, 
without any definite locality. Not having anj^ specimens of pulchra 
for comparison, and on account of the authors' descriptions being 
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SO short and incomplete, I am obliged to describe it as a new species. 
In their description of pulchra they state that the pronotum has a 
small longitudinal line at the middle, which is entirely absent in 
the West Indian specimens. In comparing the specimen with their 
figure of pulchra, that species seems to be larger and more elongate, 
the pronotum not angulate near the anterior angles, and with a 
longitudinal line at middle, the reddish fasciae on elj^tra are broader 
in comparison to the green areas, and the tips of the elytra are con- 
jointly acute, while in hella each elytron is produced into an acute 
tooth at middle. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS QUADRIMACULATA (Fabricius) 
Buprestis qiiadrhnaculata Fabricius, Gen. Ins. Mant, 1770, pp. 236-237 ; 
Spec. Ins., vol. 1, 1781, p. 280; Mant. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 183.— 
Olivier, Entomol., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, p. 76, pi. 10, fig. 110; Ency. 
Method., vol. 5, 1790, p. 238.— Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, 1801, 
p. 208. 
Male. — Form rather elongate and moderately convex, subopaque; 
head aeneous, with a cupreous reflection ; pronotum violaceous, with 
a transverse green fascia at the anterior margin, the fascia narrowly 
margined anteriorly Avith a reddish-cupreous color, and a rather w ide 
transverse reddish-cupreous fascia (strongly expanded at the sides) 
at basal third; scutellum and elytra violaceous; each elytron with 
base, suture, lateral margin, and a narrow transverse postmedian 
fascia green, all the green areas narrowly margined wdth a reddish- 
cupreous color; there is also a transverse oblong reddish-cupreous 
spot in the middle of the anterior violaceous area, and a smaller, 
somewhat triangular spot of the same color in the middle of the 
posterior violaceous area; beneath aeneous, with a strong bluish- 
green tinge, the sides of the posterior coxae and prosternum reddish- 
cupreous and more shining than above; tarsi cyaneous. 
Head flat, with the front triangular, and the sides feebly arcuately 
rounded ; occiput narrowly obsoletely longitudinally carinate ; front 
not impressed; vertex with an arcuate transverse elevation forming 
an arc with the sides of the front; surface sparsely, very coarsely, but 
not deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed, becoming con- 
fluent in some parts, and from the center of each puncture arises a 
moderately long recumbent cinereous hair; inter%^als finely densely 
granulose; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at 
bottom than on top, and separated on the occiput by one-half the 
distance between the antennal cavities, epistoma broadly arcuatelj' 
emarginate in front, the lobes broadly rounded; antennae short, third 
joint as long as the following four joints united. Pronotum strongly 
transverse, one and one-half times as wide as long, widest near apex, 
front and base about equal in width; sides strongly, abruptly and 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 109 
arcuately expanded near apical angles, then feebly sinuate, and 
nearly parallel to the posterior angles, which are rather acute and 
closely applied to the elytra ; anterior margin feebly arcuately 
emarginate, with an obsolete median lobe; base strongly angularly 
emarginate on each side at the elytral lobes, the median lobe broadly 
rounded and truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, 
without impressions, sparsely and rather deeply punctate, the punc- 
tures irregularly placed and becoming coarser toward the sides; 
intervals densely, obsoletely gi'anulose. Scutellum very small, tri- 
angular, with the sides equal in length and the surface obsoletely 
granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides 
broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind the 
middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly 
broadly rounded; lateral margins strongly serrate to near the mid- 
dle, the teeth rather widely separated ; humeri rather prominent ; base 
not very strongly lobed; surface without costae, but each elytron with 
a rather shallow impression at the basal lobe, and a shallow trans- 
verse one along base extending to the humerus, and with a broad 
obsolete impression on the anterior reddish-cupreous area, sparsely, 
finely and irregularly punctate, the punctures irregular in size, and 
the intervals finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath 
sparsely and coarsely punctate, the punctures very shallow, irregu- 
larly placed, and from each j^uncture arises a recumbent cinereous 
hair ; intervals obsoletely granulose and more shining than above ; first 
segment only obsoletely flattened ; last segment with the lateral mar- 
gins entire, without a serrate submarginal ridge, and with the apex 
broadly arcuately emarginate. Prosternum with a narrow, declivous 
lobe in front, and the surface more coarsely and deeply punctate than 
the abdomen; prosternal process flat, strongly expanded behind the 
coxal cavities, and with a triangular tooth at apex; anterior coxal 
cavities separated by about their own diameter. Femora robust ; ante- 
rior pair with a sharp tooth on the outer edge near middle, the tooth 
not serrate on the exterior margin. Anterior tibiae slightly arcuate, 
feebly flattened and Avithout any dilatations; posterior and middle 
pairs nearly straight and subcylindrical. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the head more cupreous, 
and the apex of the last abdominal segment with two semicircular 
emarginations, and the median tooth more obtuse and not as long as 
the lateral ones. 
Length, 8..5 mm. ; width, 3.9 mm. 
This beautiful species can be easily separated from all the other 
West Indian species of this genus by the transverse green, violaceous 
and reddish-cupreous fasciae on pronotum. 
The original locality given by Fabricius (1776) is "India" and 
from the short description it would be impossible to recognize the 
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species, but Olivier (1790) gives a very good description and figure 
of the species described by Fabricius. Fabricius (1801) under 
quddrimaculata cites Olivier's redescription of this species, so there 
is scarcely any doubt as to Olivier's identification of the species. 
Specimens which agree with the description and figure given by 
Olivier have been examined from the following localities. Colh 
British Mus. : One female, labeled West Indies, without any definite 
locality. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : Two males, labeled Jamaica. 
(One of these specimens donated to the U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll.) 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS LEPIDA Castelnau and Gory 
Chrysohothris lepida Castelnau ami Gouy, Moii. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, p. 10. 
pi. 3, fig. 23. — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramou de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. 
Polit. et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, Auim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), 
p. 64; (Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 28. — Chevkolat, Ann. Soc. 
Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 585 (separates p. 161).^Gundlach, 
Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 168, No. 505, 
Male. — Form broadly elongate, moderately convex and subopaque ; 
head cupreous, with the reliefs purplish-green; pronotum, scutellum, 
and elytra purpureous, with a distinct greenish tinge; each elytron 
ornated with bright green marks as follows : A transverse fascia at 
base, a slightly oblique one just in front of middle, and a more trans- 
verse one at apical third, the fasciae wider and more rounded in- 
ternally, not reaching to the suture, and the posterior one sometimes 
divided into two round spots; beneath greenish-black, with a strong 
purpureous tinge, and more shining than above ; antennae cupreous ; 
tarsi cyaneous. 
Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides feebly 
arcuately rounded; occiput narrow and longitudinally carinater 
front not impressed; vertex with an obsolete arcuate transverse ele- 
vation, forming an arc with the sides of the front; surface densely 
and coarsely punctate, the punctures somewhat confluent on the 
front and from the center of each puncture arises an inconspicuous 
cinereous hair; intervals obsoletely granulose; eyes large, strongly 
convex, more acutely rounded at bottom than on top, and separated 
on the occiput by about the same distance that separates the antennal 
cavities; epistoma deeply, narrowly, and acutely emarginate, the 
lobe on each side forming an arc from the bottom of the emargi na- 
tion; antennae short, third joint about as long as the following 
three joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and four- 
fifths times as wide as long, widest near apex, slightly narrower at 
base than in front; sides strongly, abruptly, and acutely expanded 
near apical angles, then feebly sinuate and slightly narrowed to the 
posterior angles, which are nearly rectangular and closely applied to 
the elytra; anterior margin broadly arcuately emarginate with a 
I 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE — FISHER 111 
broadly rounded median lobe; base broadly arcuately emarginate on 
each side at the elytral lobes, the median lobe broadly rounded, and 
truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, without im- 
pressions, rather densely, deeply, and coarsely punctate, the punc- 
tures becoming- larger and more confluent at the sides; intervals 
densely and obsoletely granulose. Scutellum very small, triangular, 
the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely granulose. 
Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly rounded 
at liumeral angles, nearly parallel to near apical third, where they 
are slightly wider, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
conjointly broadly rounded; lateral margins strongly, coarsely ser- 
rate to near the middle; humeri not prominent: base broadly ar- 
cuately lobed ; surface without costae, but each elytron with a round, 
deep impression at the basal lobe, and a broad, shallow one on the 
premedian green fascia, densely and finely punctate, the punctures 
coarse and more confluent on the green areas and at sides and apex : 
intervals finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath sparsely 
and coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow and irregularly placed, 
and from each puncture arises a short semierect cinereous hair; in- 
tervals nearly smooth and more shining than above; first segment 
not impressed at middle ; last segment with the lateral margins entire, 
with an obsolete serrate submarginal ridge, and the apex broadly 
arculately emarginate. Prosternum with a narrow, broadly rounded 
median lobe, which is feebl}^ declivous in front, the surface more 
coarsely and deeply punctate than the abdomen; prosternal process 
flat, angularly emarginate between the coxal cavities, then strongly 
expanded on each side, with a rather acute tooth at apex; anterior 
coxal cavities separated by a little more than their own diameter. 
Femora robust ; anterior pair with a large, acute tooth on the outer 
edge near middle, the tooth not serrate on the exterior margin. An- 
terior and middle tibiae slightly arcuate, the former flattened and 
with an obsolete dilatation at the apex ; posterior pair subcylindrical 
and straight. 
Female. — Diflers from the male in having the head olivaceous- 
green, occiput more strongly carinate, eyes more widely separated, 
first and second abdominal segments feebly flattened, last ventral 
segment truncate at apex, with a sharp tooth at each side, and an 
irregular submarginal ridge, and the anterior tibiae without any 
dilatations. 
Length, 6 mm. ; width, 3 mm. 
Described from Cuba by Castelnau and Gory. Recorded from the 
same island by Jacquelin Duval. Chevrolat (1867) records it from 
the eastern and central part of Cuba, in the collections of Gundlach, 
Poey, and the author. Gundlach (1891) records having collected it 
in ail parts of the island of Cuba and in Porto Rico. The specimens 
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Avhich he records fi-om Poito Rico are probably Chrysobothris woJ- 
Gotti Fisher, as no specimens of lepida have been seen from that 
island. 
Specimens have been examined from the following localities. Coll. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. : Cayamas, Cuba, January to June (E. A. Schwarz) ; 
Long Island, Bahamas, January 4, 1879 (E. A. Schwarz). Coll. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. : Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 117). Coll. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist.: Banon San Vicente (near Vifiales), Cuba, elevation about 
1,000 feet in a valley in the Sierra de los Organos, September 16, 
1913, the vegetation consisting of palms, guava, and many other 
shrubs and trees (Chas. W. Leng). Coll. S. C. Bruner: Santiago de 
las Vegas, Cuba, January 18, 1922 (S. C. Bruner). The species is 
also represented in the Gundlach Museum in Habana by two ex- 
amples labeled No. 505, and by a single example in the British 
Museum, neither of which have been examined. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS MEGACEPHALA Castelnau and Gory 
Chrysobothris mefwcephala Castelnau and Goky, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, 
p. 13, pi. 3, fig. IS. 
Male. — Form rather elongate, moderately convex and subopaque: 
color uniformly dark aeneous; each elytron with four round, deep 
impressions, which are slightly more aureous or cupreous at the 
bottom ; tarsi aeneo-piceous. 
Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides 
obliquely narrowed to the vertex ; occiput moderatel}' wide and obso- 
letely longitudinally carinate; front not impressed; vertex with a 
transverse elevation; surface densely and coarsely punctate, the 
punctures on the front rather shallow, irregular, and nearly conflu- 
ent, the sides forming a network of polygonal areas, the bottom of 
which are granulose, rather densely clothed with long semi-erect 
silvery-white hairs, which do not obscure the surface; eyes large, 
strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom than on top and 
separated on the occiput by slightly less than the distance between 
the antennal cavities; epistoma narrowly and deeply eniarginate in 
front, the lobe on each side forming an arc from the bottom of the 
emargination ; antennae rather long, third joint about as long as 
the following four joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, 
nearly two times as wide as long, widest at apical third, apex and 
base about equal in width; sides very strongly angulated at apical 
third, then slightly arcuately rounded and feebly narrowed to post- 
erior angles, which are rather acute; anterior margin arcuately 
emarginate, with an obsolete median lobe; base rather strongly arcu- 
ately emarginate on each side at the elytral lobe, with the median 
lobe broadly rounded, and truncate in front of scutellum; surface 
ART. WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 113 
evenly convex, without impressions, rather densely and deeply punc- 
tate, the punctures well separated on the disk, but becoming coarser 
and somewhat confluent at the sides; intervals obsoletely granulose. 
Scutellum small, triangular, the sides equal in length and the sur- 
face obsoletely granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than the pro- 
notum at base; sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, slightly 
sinuate and nearly j)arallel to behind middle, where they are slightly 
wider, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly 
broadly rounded ; lateral margins strongly serrate to the middle, the 
teeth short and widely separated; humeri not very prominent; base 
arcuately lobed; surface without costae, but each elytron with a 
round deep impression at basal lobe, a broad obsolete one at humerus, 
a round deep one on middle of disk just in front of the middle, and 
two round ones placed transversely at apical third, the interior one 
not as deeply impressed, densely and rather deeply punctate, the 
punctures rather fine on the disk but becoming coarser and more 
confluent toward the sides; intervals densely and finely granulose. 
Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather densely punctate, the punc- 
tures very shallow, irregularly placed, and becoming finer toward 
the sides, sparsely clothed with long recumbent cinereous hairs; 
intervals obsoletely granulose; first segment feebly depressed at 
middle; last segment with the lateral margins entire, with an obso- 
lete serrate submarginal ridge, and the apex broadly arcuately 
emarginate, with a very small acute notch on each side at the 
apical angles. Prosternum with a distinct median lobe in front, 
behind which the surface is abruptly and broadly depressed and 
sparsely and very irregularly punctate; prosternal process flat, 
strongly expanded behind the coxal cavities, and with a large tri- 
angular tooth at apex. Femora robust; anterior pair with a large 
acute tooth on the outer edge at middle, which is not serrate on the 
exterior margin. Anterior tibiae arcuate, flattened, and with a dis- 
tinct broad dilatation at apex; middle pair strongly sinuate near 
apex; and the posterior pair straight and subcylindrical. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the front of head more 
convex and the sides feebly arcuately rounded, apex of abdomen 
with two semi-circular emarginations (the median tooth not as long 
as the lateral ones) , anterior tibiae without dilatations, and the mid- 
dle pair straight. 
Length, 9 mm. ; width, 4 mm. 
This species is closely allied to chlorosticta Thomson, and par'vo- 
foveata Fisher, but can be distinguished from either of these two 
species by the elytral foveae being cupreous or concolorous with the 
elytra, and the four posterior ones transA^ersely placed, while in the 
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first tAvo species the foveae are green, and the posterior ones obliquely 
placed. 
The locality given by Castelnau and Gory in their original de- 
scription of this species is Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the above de- 
scription was made from specimens from the type locality. Speci- 
mens have been examined from the following localities. Coll. U. S. 
Nat, Mus. : Port-au-Prince, Haiti ; Higueral, Santo Domingo, Feb- 
ruary, 1916 (E. G. Smyth); Santa Rita, Porto Rico, July, 191?> 
(E. G, Smyth). Coll. H. F. Wickham : Port-au-Prince, Haiti (R. J. 
Crew). Coll. British Mus.: St. Domingo. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. 
Hist. : Ensenada, Porto Rico, May, 1915, Breeds in Agati grandi-fiora 
(E. G. Smyth). Coll. Porto Rico Exp, Sta. : Higueral, Santo Do- 
mingo, April 13, 1913 (W. V. Tower). Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. : 
St. Marc, Haiti (W. M. Mann). 
Kerremans-*^ places octosignata described by Waterhouse-^ as a 
synonym of this species, but I have been unable to find that Water- 
house has used that name for a species of Chrysobothris. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS CHLOROSTICTA Thomson 
Chrysobothris chlorosticta (Laferte Mss.) Thomson, Typi. Bupresti- 
darum, 1878, p. 78. 
' Male. — Form rather elongate, moderately convex, and subopaque ; 
above aeneous, with a strong purpureous tinge ; each elytron ornated 
with bluish-green markings as follows : A large round spot at basal 
lobe, an oblong spot on humerus, and extended to the base, a large 
round ante-median spot, and two small round spots at apical third. 
of which the exterior one is placed obliquely in advance of the ante- 
rior one; dorsal segments of abdomen bright green at the sides; be- 
neath aeneous, with purpureous and cupreous reflections; tarsi 
cyaneous. 
Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides 
obliquely narroAved to the vertex ; occiput rather wide and longitudi- 
nally carinate ; front not impressed ; vertex with a transverse eleva- 
tion; surface densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures on the 
front shallow, irregular, and nearly confluent, the sides forming a net- 
work of polygonal areas, the bottom of which are granulose, sparsely 
clothed with long, recumbent cinereous hairs ; ej^es large, strongly con- 
vex, more acutely rounded at bottom than on top, and separated on 
the occiput by about the same distance as between the antennal 
cavities; ej^istoma with a narrow acutely rounded emargination at 
middle, the lobe on each side of the emargination obliquely rounded ; 
antennae rather long, third joint about as long as the following four 
=0 Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, p. 191. 
-' Biol. Centr.-Amer., Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1887, p. 38. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 115 
joints united. Pronotinn strongly transverse, nearly two times as 
Avide as long, widest near apical third, slightly narrower behind than 
in front ; sides ver}^ strongly angulated near apical third, then feebly 
sinuate and obliquely narrowed to the posterior angles, which are 
rather acute; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly 
rounded obsolete median lobe ; base arcuately emarginate on each side 
at the elytral lobe, the median lobe broadly rounded, and truncate in 
front of scutellum ; surface evenly convex, without impressions, 
rather densely and deeply punctate, the punctures well separated on 
the disk, but becoming coarser and more confluent toward the sides ; 
intervals obsoletelj' granulose. Scutellum small, triangular, the sides 
equal in length, and the surface obsoletely granulose. Eytra dis- 
tinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly rounded at 
humeral angles, slightly sinuate and parallel to behind middle, then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, ^vhich are conjointly broadly rounded; 
lateral margins strongly serrate to the middle, the teeth large, widely 
and irregularly placed; humeri not very prominent; base broadly 
arcuately lobed; surface without costae, but with all the green spots 
deeply imj^ressed, except those on the humeri, rather densely, deeply, 
and regularly punctate, the punctures becoming somewhat confluent 
and rugose toward the sides; intervals densely and finely gi'anulose. 
Abdomen beneath coarsely, sparsely, and irregularly punctate, and 
very sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, cinereous hairs; intervals 
obsoletely granulose; first segment feebly imj)ressed at middle; last 
segment with the lateral margins entire, with an obsolete serrate 
submarginal ridge, and the apex broadly but not deeply arcuately 
emarginate. Prosternum with a distinct median lobe in front, be- 
hind which the surface is abruptly and broadly depressed, with only 
a few coarse punctures along the sides, and sparsely clothed with 
long cinereous hairs ; prosternal process flat, nearly smooth, strongly 
expanded behind the coxal cavities, and with a very large triangular 
tooth at apex. Femora robust; anterior femora with a large acute 
tooth on the outer edge near the middle, the exterior margin not ser- 
rate. Anterior tibiae feebly arcuate, flattened on the inner margin, 
and with a distinct dilatation near the apex; middle pair strongly 
sinuate near apex ; posterior pair straight, subcjdindrical, and with a 
series of stiff hairs on the outer margin near apex. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the front of head 
slightly more convex, sides more arcuately rounded, elytral spots of 
a brighter green color, and the posterior ones larger, sides of pro- 
notum more concave posteriorly, apex of abdomen with two semi- 
circular emarginations (the median tooth not as long as the lateral 
ones), anterior tibiae without dilatations, and the middle and pos- 
terior ones straight. 
Length, 10.5 mm. ; width, 4.25 mm. 
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This species is closely allied to megace'phala Castelnau and Gory, 
and parvofoi}eata Fisher. From the former it is distinguished by 
the elytral markings being green and the posterior foveae placed 
obliquely on the elytron, and from the latter by having the humeral 
angles green, elytral spots larger, and the epistoma more acutely 
emarginate at the middle. 
The above description of the male was made from a specimen 
labeled " St. Domingo," in the collection of the British Museum, and 
that of the female, in the collection of the American Museum of 
Natural History, collected by F. W. Watson at Villa Kivas, 20 miles 
west of Sanchez, Dominican Republic, on June 19, 1915. The col- 
lecting was done along the north bank of the Ura River to a point 
one mile east of the town. The locality given by Thomson in the 
original description is simply " St, Domingo." 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS PARVOFOVEATA. new species 
Female. — Form rather elongate, moderately convex, and sub- 
opaque ; color uniformly dark aeneous ; each elytron with four small, 
round spots, which are deeply impressed, bright green at the bottom, 
and arranged as follows: One at the basal lobe, a similar one just 
in front of the middle, and two others near the apical third, of which 
the exterior one is considerably in advance of the interior one ; tai*si 
cyaneous. 
Head rather strongly convex, with the front triangular, and the 
sides feebly arcuately rounded; occiput wide, with a broad smooth 
longitudinal carina; front not impressed; vertex with an obsolete 
transverse elevation; surface densely and coarsely punctate, the punc- 
tures somewhat confluent near the antennal cavities, sparsely clothed 
with long, inconspicuous cinereous hairs; intervals obsoletely gran- 
ulose; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom 
than on top, and separated on the occiput by about the same dis- 
tance as between the antennal cavities; epistoma broadly angularly 
emarginate in front, the lobe on each side broadly rounded; antennae 
rather short, third joint about as long as the following three joints 
united. Pronotum strongly transverse, nearly two times as wide as 
long, widest at apical third, slightly narrower behind than in front ; 
sides very strongly angulated at apical third, then feebly sinuate, and 
obliquely attenuate to the posterior angles, which are rather acute; 
anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded 
median lobe; base arcuately emarginate on each side at the elytral 
lobes, the median lobe broadly rounded, and narrowly truncate in 
front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, without impressions, 
rather densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures somewhat con- 
fluent toward the sides; intervals finely and densely granulose. 
AUT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 117 
Scutellum very small, triangular, with the sides equal in length. 
Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly 
rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind the middle, then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded; 
lateral margins strongly serrate to the middle, the teeth large and 
rather evenly spaced ; humeri not prominent ; base broadly arcuately 
lobed ; surface with very indistinct longitudinal costae at apex, with 
eight round deep depressions as noted above, densely and deeply 
punctate, the punctures becoming denser and confluent toward the 
sides; intervals finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath 
sparsely, coarsely, and irregularly punctate, and very sparsely 
clothed with long inconspicuous cinereous hairs; intervals obso- 
letely granulose ; first segment broadly depressed at middle ; last seg- 
ment with the lateral margins entire, with an obsolete serrate sub- 
marginal ridge, and the apex with two semicircular emarginations, 
the median tooth only about one-half as long as the lateral ones. 
Prosternum with a distinct median lobe in front, behind which the 
surface is abruptly and broadly depressed, and with only a few 
large, irregularly placed punctures, and very sparsely clothed with 
long cinereous hairs; intervals smooth; prosternal process flat, 
strongly expanded behind the coxal cavities, and with a very large 
triangular tooth at apex. Femora robust; anterior pair with a 
large acute tooth on outer edge near middle, the exterior margin of 
which is not serrate. Anterior tibiae arcuate, flattened on the inner 
surface, and without any dilatations, the middle and posterior pairs 
straight and subcylindrical. 
Length, 9 mm. ; width, 3.75 mm. 
Type locality. — Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 
Type.— C^t. No. 26809, U.S.N.M. 
Described from a single female collected at the type locality by 
R. J. Crew and received through the kindness of H. F. Wickham. 
I have also examined fragments of this species collected by E. G. 
Smyth at Higueral, Santa Domingo, during February, 1916. 
The species is closely allied to chlorosticta Thomson, and mega- 
cephala Castelnau and Gory. From the former it can be separated 
by the absence of the green markings on humeral angles of elytra, 
elytral spots smaller, and the epistoma broadly angularly emar- 
ginate. From megacephala it can be distinguished by the elytral 
foveae being green, and the posterior ones placed obliquely on each 
elytron. It is also allied to astuta described by Waterhouse from 
Mexico, but the pronotum is more strongly angulated anteriorly than 
in that species, and the elytral foveae are green. 
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CHRYSOBOTHRIS THOMAE Kerremans 
Chrysoiothris thomae Kebeemans, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 43, 1899, p. 337. 
Female. — Form, small, short, and feebly convex, siibopaque; head, 
pronotum and scutellum dark aeneous, the reliefs on pronotum some- 
what purpureous; elytra violaceous-black, basal region irregularly 
and obsoletely variegated aeneous, viridis and cupreous, the base, 
suture and lateral margins narrowly margined with green, the green 
margin becoming broader on the suture posteriori}^ and narrowly 
margined with a bright cupreous-red color along base and anterior 
part of suture, a broad irregular gi-een premedian fascia extending 
from the lateral margin to middle of disk, but not reaching the 
suture, a broad post-median reddish-cupreous fascia extending be- 
tween the green lateral and sutural margins, and a narrow preapical 
green fascia, narrowly margined posteriorly with a bright reddish- 
cupreous color; beneath violaceous-black, slightly aeneous in front, 
and more shining than above. 
Head flat, with the front triangular and the sides broadly arcu- 
ately rounded; occiput very narrow, and longitudinally carinate; 
front and vertex without any impressions or carinae; surface very 
coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures shallow and confluent, 
with the bottoms finely and densely granulose, rather sparsely 
clothed with moderately long, recumbent cinereous hairs ; eyes large, 
strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom than on top, and 
separated on the occiput by about one-half the distance between the 
antennal cavities; epistoma broadly angularly emarginate in front, 
with the lobes broadly rounded; antennae short, third joint a little 
longer than the following two joints united, cupreous, and sparsely 
pubescent. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and two-fifths times 
as wide as long, widest near apical fourth, slightly narrower behind 
than in front ; sides rounded behind apical angles, then feebly, arcu- 
ately attenuate to the posterior angles, which are obtusely rounded ; 
anterior margin obsoletely arcuately emarginate, with a feebly 
broadly rounded median lobe; base strongly bisinuate, with the 
median lobe broadly rounded, and truncate in front of scutellum; 
surface evenly convex, without any impressions, rather strongly 
transversely rugose, and rather coarsely and sparsely punctate, the 
punctures deep and well separated; intervals finely and densely 
granulose. Scutellum small, triangular, with the sides equal in 
length, and surface finely granulose. Elytra" distinctly wider than 
pronotum at base; sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, and 
feebly expanded to just behind the middle, where they are the widest, 
then strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are separately 
narrowly rounded; lateral margins strongly serrate to near the 
middle; humeri not very prominent; base angularly lobed; surface 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 119 
without costae, but each elytron with a round deep impression behind 
the basal lobe, and a shallow transverse impression along base, con- 
nected to a broader impression at humerus, the pre-median green 
fascia is also feebly impressed, rather densely and coarsely punctate, 
the punctures somewhat irregular but well separated, the intervals 
densely and finely granulose. Abdomen beneath coarsely and 
sparsely punctate ; last segment with the lateral margins entire, with 
a serrate submarginal ridge, and truncate at apex. Prosternum 
with a narrow, declivous lobe in front; surface densely coarsely 
punctate, and sparsely clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs; pros- 
ternal process flat, strongly constricted between the coxal cavities, 
and long and acute at apex; anterior coxal cavities separated by 
about their own diameter. Femora robust; anterior pair armed 
with an acute tooth on the outer edge near middle, and with a series 
of small sharp teeth between the large tooth and apex. Anterior 
tibiae slightly arcuate near base, with a distinct dilatation on inner 
surface near the middle; middle and posterior pairs straight. 
Length, 6.5 mm.; width, 3.25 mm. 
This beautiful little species was described by Kerremans from 
St. Thomas, Antilles, and the above description is made from a 
specimen kindly loaned by the British Museum and labeled '* S. 
Thomas (Meyer Diir) ; thomae Kerr. Type." 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS WOLCOTTI. new species 
Chrysoiothris lepida Gundlach (not Castelnau and Gory), An. Soc. Espan. 
Hist. Nat., ser. 2, vol. 22, 1894, p. 623. 
Male. — Form broadly elongate, moderately convex, and sub- 
opaque; head bright green; pronotum purplish or feebly cupreous, 
with the anterior margin narrowly margined with green, and with 
two obsolete aureous spots on the disk, one on each side of the 
median line and slightly in front of the middle; scutellum green; 
elytra purpureous, and each elytron ornated with the following 
bright green markings: A narrow transverse fascia at base, nar- 
rowly connected at the suture and along lateral margin to a narrow 
transverse fascia at basal third; a similar fascia at apical third ex- 
tending from the lateral margin to near the suture, where it is bent 
backward, but not reaching the suture; and an oblong spot at the 
apex; beneath greenish-black, becoming purplish toward the sides, 
with the prosternum and exterior surface of the anterior femora 
and tibiae bright green, and the surface glabrous. 
Head feebly convex, with the front triangular, and the side feebly 
arcuately rounded; occiput very narrow, longitudinally carinate 
and densely punctate; vertex and front nearly flat, without any 
longitudinal carina or sulcus, but with an obsolete transverse carina 
between the vertex and occiput; surface densely and coarsely punc- 
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tate, the punctures rather shallow, irregular, and nearly confluent, 
the sides forming a network of polygonal areas, bottom of the punc- 
tures granulose, and from the center of which arises an inconspicu- 
ous white hair; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded 
at bottom than on top, and separated on the occiput by about one- 
third the distance between the antennal cavities; epistoma large, 
broadly and very deeply triangularly emarginate at middle, the 
anterior margin strongly angulated on each side of the emargi- 
nation ; antennae greenish at base, becoming aeneous toward the tip, 
third joint about equal in length to the following three joints united. 
Pronotum strongly transverse and moderately convex, one and one- 
half times as wide as long, widest near the apical angles, then feebly 
obliquely narrowed to the posterior angles, which are not very 
acute; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly 
rounded, obsoletely median lobe; base deeply emarginate at middle 
of each elytron, with a broadly rounded median lobe, which is 
feebly truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, with- 
out impressions, coarsely transversely rugose, and finely, rather 
sparsely, punctate, the punctures elongate and widely separated, the 
intervals very finely granulose. Scutellum triangular, the sides 
equal in length and the surface granulose. Elytra distinctly wider 
than pronotum at base, feebly angulated at humeral angles, then 
feebly sinuate and nearly parallel to near the middle, where it is the 
widest, and then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are separately 
and rather broadly rounded; lateral margins very strongly serrate 
to near the middle; base moderately lobed; surface without costae, 
but with a deep transverse impression along the base, rather coarsely 
and densely punctate, the punctures elongate and rather widely 
separated; intervals finely and densely granulose. Abdomen be- 
neath coarsely and sparsely punctate; last segment with the lateral 
margins entire, with a serrate submarginal ridge, and truncate at 
apex; with a small deep emargination at the lateral sides, forming 
an acute tooth at the outer edge. Prosternum broadly lobed in 
front, surface more coarsely and densely punctate than abdomen. 
Femora robust; anterior pair with a strong acute tooth on their 
outer edge near the middle, serrate on its exterior margin. Anterior 
tibiae slightly arcuate, with a distinct dilatation near the middle; 
middle and posterior pairs straight. 
Female. — Differs from the males in having the front of head pur- 
plish, with the bottom of the punctures and margins along eyes 
slightly bronzy, and the punctures on front more widely separated, 
causing the intervals to be wider and obsoletely granulose, antennae 
aeneous with a strong purplish tinge ; elytra more strongly angulated 
and sinuate near the humeral angles ; beneath uniformly greenish-black 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 121 
becoming strongly purplish toward the sides, and with the last ab- 
dominal segment more serrate at apex and the two lateral teeth pro- 
jecting farther beyond the median part than in the male. 
Lengthy 6-7 mm. ; width, 2.6-3 mm. 
Type locality. — Mayaguez, Porto Rico. 
Other localities. — Rio Piedras and Anasco, Porto Rico, 
Type and allotype.— C^it. No. 26810, U.S.N.M. 
Paratypes. — British Museum and Collection Porto Rico Experi- 
ment Station, 
Described from four specimens, two males and two females. The 
type is from Mayaguez, Porto Rico, without any additional data. 
The allotype was received from G. N. Wolcott of the Porto Rico 
Experiment Station, and was collected at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, 
July 23, 1916, by E. G. Smyth, on a living twig of jobo {Spondea 
lutea). There is also a male paratype in the British Museum Collec- 
tion from Anasco, Porto Rico, collected September, 1913, by E. G. 
Smyth, and a female paratype in the Porto Rico Experiment Station 
collection from Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, collected November 25, 
1912, by G. Nevarrete, 
This species was recorded by Gundlach (1891) from Porto Rico 
as lepida Castelnau and Gory, but it is entirely different from that 
species. It is allied to ChrysohothHs lepida Castelnau and Gory 
from Cuba, and also to G. cKi^ysoela Illiger from the United 
States, From both these species it differs by having the epistoma 
triangularly emarginate, eyes more widely separated on occiput, 
pronotum more strongly transversely rugose, and the sides less 
strongly narrowed posteriorly, the last abdominal segment truncate, 
the transverse green fascia on basal third of elytron connected along 
the suture and lateral margin to the basal fascia, and the green fascia 
at apical third slightly turned backward near the suture, while in 
lepida and chrysoela the green markings usually consist only of spots 
and are never connected along suture or lateral margin, 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS HISPANIOLAE, new species 
Female. — Form small, short, rather robust and feebly convex, and 
siibopaque; head aeneous in front, becoming cupreous on the occi- 
put; pronotum reddish-cupreous; elytra brownish-aeneous, and each 
elytron ornated with bright green markings as follows: A trans- 
verse spot along base enclosing a round deep basal depression, a 
round deeply depressed spot on middle of disk, situated just in front 
of middle, and an oblong feebly impressed spot at apical third, sit- 
uated closer to the lateral margin than the suture, the median and 
posterior green spots are narrowly margined with violaceous; be- 
neath piceous, with a strong aenous tinge; tarsi cyaneous. 
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Head feebly convex, with the front trianji^^ilar. and the sides fee- 
bly arcuately rounded; occiput narrow, and longitudinally carinate; 
front not impressed; vertex with a very feeble arcuate elevation; 
surface sparsely and finely punctate, the punctures deep, widely 
separated, and regular in size, sparsely clothed with rather short 
inconspicuous hairs; intervals densely and rather coarsely granu- 
lose; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom 
than on top, and separated on the occiput by about one-half the 
distance between the antennal cavities; epistoma broadly and deeply 
triangularly emarginate in front, with the lobe on each side strongly 
angulated at the middle; antennae short, the third joint not as long 
as the following two joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, 
one and one-half times as wide as long, widest at apical third, 
slightly narrower behind than in front; sides broadly rounded an- 
teriorly, then arcuately attenuate to the posterior angles, which are 
rather obtuse; anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate; base 
rather strongly bisinuate, with the median lobe broadly rounded, 
and feebly truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, 
without impressions, but sparsely and finely punctate, the punctures 
deep, elongate, and well separated on the disk, becoming coarser 
and transversely rugose at the sides; intervals finely and densely 
granulose, Scutellum small, triangular, the sides equal in length, 
and the surface obsoletely granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than 
pronotum at base; sides broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly 
parallel to behind middle, where they are slightly wider, then ar- 
cuately attenuate to the tips, which are separately narrowly rounded ; 
lateral margins coarsely serrate to the middle, the teeth very short 
and widely separated; humeri prominent; base feebly angularly 
lobed ; surface with an obsolete costa along the lateral margin, ex- 
tending from behind the humerus to near the apex, each elytron 
with a deep round impression at basal lobe, a feebly impressed one 
at humerus, an elongate one along margin behind the humerus, a 
round deeply impressed green spot on disk in front of middle, and 
a feebly impressed green spot at apical third, densely and coarsely 
punctate, the punctures irregular and becoming somewhat conflu- 
ent at the sides; intervals densely and coarsely granulose. Ab- 
domen beneath coarsely, deeply, and irregularly punctate, intervals 
obsoletely granulose, and more shining than above; first segment 
not impressed at middle; last segment with the lateral margins en- 
tire, with a submarginal ridge, and the apex subtruncate. Pros- 
ternum with a small rounded lobe in front; surface very sparsely 
and coarsely punctate; prosternal process flat, triangularly ex- 
panded behind the coxal cavities, and with a very short obtuse tooth 
at apex. Femora robust; anterior pair with a large acute tooth on 
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ART. WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 123 
the outer edge, closer to the apex than base, and not serrate on the 
exterior margin. Anterior tibiae arcuate, feebly flattened on the 
inner surface, and without any dilatations; middle and posterior 
pairs straight and subcylindrical. 
Length, 4.5 mm; width, 2.1 mm. 
Type locality. — Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 
Type.—Q^t. Xo. 2G811, U.S.N.M. 
This species was described from a single female received from H. 
F. Wickham, and was collected by R. J. Crew at the type locality. 
It is closely allied to C. thoracica Fabricius, but differs from it in a 
number of ways. The head is more finely punctured, more strongly 
granulose, and the sides of the punctures not forming a network of 
polygonal areas as in thoracica. The pronotum is more arcuately 
attenuate posteriorly, the punctures on disk more elongate, and 
widely separated: and the elytra has an obsolete costa along the 
lateral margin, the basal fovese more rounded and deeply impressed, 
the green basal fascia not extended along the suture behind the 
scutellum, and the disk with four round green foveae, the median 
ones deeply impressed. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS THORACICA (Fabricius) 
Buprestis thoracica Fabeicius, Ent. Syst. Suppl., 1798, p. 138. 
BupresUs amabilis Herbst. Nat. Syst. Ins. Kiifer, vol. 9, 1801, pp. 144-145. 
pi. 147, fig. 5. 
Male. — Form small, short, rather robust and feebly convex, and 
subopaque; head bright green, with the reliefs on front cupreous; 
pronotum reddish-cupreous with the anterior margin aureous; scu- 
tellum dark green; elytra brownish-aeneous, and each elytron 
omated with nile-green markings as follows: A broad fascia along- 
base, extending backward for a short distance along suture, this 
fascia is also extended around the humeral angle, an irregular trans- 
vei'se spot in front of middle, and a small post-median spot, which is 
closer to the lateral margin than the suture; there is also a black spot 
behind the humerus and a similar one along the lateral margin at 
middle. Beneath piceous, with a strong aeneous tinge at middle, 
and becoming aeneo-purpureous at the sides of abdomen ; prosternum 
green, becoming cupreous at the sides; legs violaceous, the anterior 
femora green on the exterior surface. 
Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides 
feebly arcuately rounded; occiput narrow and longitudinally cari- 
nate : front not impressed ; vertex with an obsolete transverse arcuate 
elevation, forming an arc with the sides of the front ; surface densely 
and coarsely punctate, the punctures rather shallow, irregular, and 
nearly confluent, the sides forming a network of polygonal areas, 
bottom of punctures granulose, and from the center of which arises 
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a rather long inconspicuous hair; eyes large, strongly convex, more 
acutely rounded at bottom than at top, and separated on the occiput 
by about one-half the distance between the antennal cavities; epis- 
toma deeply and narrowly emarginate in front, the lobe on each side 
forming an arc from the bottom of the emargination ; aatennae 
short, cupreous, the third joint about as long as the following two 
joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and three-fourths 
times as wide as long, widest at apical third, slightly narrower be- 
hind than in front ; sides broadly rounded anteriorly, then obliquely 
attenuate to the posterior angles, which are rather obtuse; anterior 
margin feebly arcuately emarginate; base rather strongly bisinuate, 
with the median lobe broadly rounded and feebly truncate in front 
of scutellum ; surface evenly convex and without impressions, densely 
and coarsely punctate, the punctures rather deep and well sepa- 
rated; intervals finely and densely granulose. Scutellum small, tri- 
angular, the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely granu- 
lose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly 
rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind middle, where 
they are slightly wider, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which 
are separately narrowly rounded ; lateral margins coarsely serrate to 
middle, the teeth very short and widely separated; humeri promi- 
nent; base feebly angularly lobed; surface without costae, but each 
elytron with a deep round impression at basal lobe, a broader but 
more shallow one at humerus, an obsolete one along margin behind 
humerus, and a broad obsolete impression on the antemedian green 
area, coarsely, densely, and irregularly punctate, the punctures some- 
what confluent toward the apex; intervals densely and coarsely 
granulose. Abdomen beneath coarsely, deeply, and irregularly punc- 
tate; intervals obsoletely granulose and more shining than above; 
first segment not impressed at middle; last segment with the lateral 
margins entire, with an obsolete serrate submarginal ridge, and the 
apex feebly truncate. Prosternum with a narrow rounded lobe in 
front; surface more densely punctured than abdomen; prosternal 
process flat, triangularly expanded behind the coaxal cavities, and 
with a very small obtuse tooth at apex; anterior coxal cavities 
separated from each other by about their OAvn diameter. Femora 
robust; anterior pair with a large acute tooth on the outer edge, 
closer to the apex than base, and finely serrate on the exterior mar- 
gin. Anterior tibiae feebly arcuate near base, somewhat flattened, 
and with an obsolete dilatation on inner margin near apex; middle 
and posterior pairs straight and subcylindrical. 
Length, 5.4 mm. ; width, 2.5 mm. 
This species was described by Fabricius (1798) from the Island 
of St. Thomas, and the above description was made from a specimen 
from the type locality, kindly loaned by the British Museum. Herbst 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 125 
(1801) described and figured the same species from an unknown 
locality under the name mndbidls. 
In the U. S. National Museum collection are two specimens from 
Porto Rico, which I have placed under this species, one collected by 
G. B. Merrill at Guanica, April 15, 1914, and the other by E. G. 
Smyth at Santa Rita, during July, 1913. The specimen from 
Guanica is a male, of the same size as the specimen from the type 
locality, and only differs from it in a few minor details. The elytral 
markings, with the exception of the basal ones, are aeneous, and the 
blackish area is more extended on the disk. The specimen from 
Santa Rita is a female and is larger than the other specimens, meas- 
uring 6.25 mm. in length and 2.75 mm. in width, the head is cupreous 
in front and a little more convex, elytral markings about the same 
as specimen from Guanica, the under side is uniformly piceous, the 
first abdominal segment feebly impressed at middle, and the last 
segment more broadly rounded at the apex. 
CHRYSOBOTHUIS INSULANA, new species 
Female. — Form broadly elongate, moderately convex, and sub- 
opaque; head and pronotum aeneous, with a slight cupreous tinge; 
scutellum and elytra reddish-cupreous, the latter somewhat pur- 
pureous on disk, and each elytron ornated with bluish-green spots 
as follows: A rather broad fascia extending from basal depression 
transversely along the base and around the humeral angles, an ob- 
long depressed spot on disk just in front of middle, an irregular 
transverse fascia at apical third, extending from the lateral margin 
to the disk but not reaching the suture, a small spot covering the 
apical area ; beneath piceous, with a slight aeneous or greenish tinge, 
and more shining than above, the elytral epipleura cupreous; tarsi 
cyaneous. 
Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides feebly 
arcuately rounded; occiput narrow, and feebly longitudinally 
carinate; front not impressed; vertex with an obsolete arcuate trans- 
verse elevation forming an arc with the sides of the front; surface 
densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures very shallow, without 
well-defined sides, and from each arises a short recumbent cinereous 
hair; intervals densely and rather coarsely granulose; eyes large, 
reniform, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom than 
on top, and separated on the occiput by about one-third the distance 
between the antennal cavities; epistoma broadly triangularly 
emarginate in front, with the lobes broadly rounded; antennae 
short, the third joint only slightly longer than the following two 
joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and two third 
times as wide as long, widest near middle, and the base and apex 
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about equal in width; sides regularly arcuately rounded; anterior 
margin broadly arcuately emarginate, without a median lobe; base 
broadly arcuately emarginate on each side at elytral lobe, with the 
median lobe broadly rounded, and truncate in front of scutellum; 
posterior angles rather obtuse; surface evenly convex, and without 
impressions, rather densely and regularly punctate, the punctures 
ratlier deep, well separated, and becoming somewhat coarser toward 
the sides; intervals finely and densely granulose. Scutellum vei-y 
small, triangular, the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely 
granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides 
broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to apical third, 
where they are slightly wider, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 
which are separately broadly rounded; lateral margins rather 
strongly serrate to near the middle ; humeri not very prominent ; base 
broadly arcuately lobed ; surface without costae, but each elytron with 
a round deep basal impression, a shallow one at humerus, a long nar- 
row one along lateral margin behind humeral angles, a large round 
deeper impression in the ante-median green area, and a smaller one 
in the post-median green fascia, densely and regularly punctate, the 
punctures rather deep and well separated on the disk, but becoming- 
obsolete in the humeral areas; intervals densely and rather coarsely 
granulose. Abdomen beneath sparsely and coarsely punctate, the 
punctures shallow, irregularly placed, and from each arises a short 
inconspicuous cinereous hair: intervals obsoletely granulose; first 
segment not impressed at middle ; last segment with the lateral mar- 
gins entire, with an obsolete serrate submarginal ridge, and the apex 
broadly subtruncate. Prostemum with a narrow declivous lobe in 
front ; surface more deeply punctured than the abdomen ; prosternal 
process flat, strongly expanded behind the coxal cavities, and with a 
triangular tooth at apex; anterior coxal cavities separated by about 
their own diameter. Femora robust; anterior pair with a large 
acute tooth on the outer edge, closer to the apex than base, and finely 
serrate on the exterior margin. Anterior tibiae feebly arcuate, 
strongly flattened, without any dilatations, the middle and posterior 
pairs straight and subcylindrical. 
Length, 6 mm.; width, 3 mm. 
Type Zoc«Z^^//.— Jamaica. 
Type. — British Museum. 
Described from a single female kindly loaned bv the British 
Museum and labeled Jamaica, without a definite locality. 
It is closely allied to Chrysohothris Jepida Castelnau and Gory, 
but can be easily distinguished from that species by the pronotum 
htiving the sides arcuately rounded and not angulated anteriorly. 
It is also related to G. luolcotti Fisher from Porto Rico, but in 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE-=-FISHER 127 
insulana the pronotum is arcuately rounded and widest near the 
middle, the elytral markings are smaller, and the basal and median 
ones not connected along the suture. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS SEXFASCIATA Schaeffer 
Chrysobothris sexfasciata Schaeffek, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, 
pp. 212-213. 
3Iale. — Form small, short, rather robust and feebly convex, and 
subopaque; head cupreous, with a strong aeneous tinge, the occiput 
and margins along eyes green; pronotum and elytra dark pur- 
pureous, with a feeble greenish tinge, each elytron ornated with 
golden-green markings as follows: A transverse basal fascia ex- 
tending along the lateral margin and connected to a feebly oblique 
ante-median fascia, which does not reach the suture, a rather broad 
irregular transverse fascia at apical third, which does not extend 
to the suture nor lateral margin, and a small spot covering the apical 
region. Beneath piceous, with the sides of the abdominal segments 
bright green, and the legs purpureous, with a strong aenous tinge 
on the exterior surface of the anterior femora; antennae cupreous; 
tarsi cyaneous. 
Head feeblj^ convex, with the front triangular and the sides 
rather strongly arcuately rounded; occiput narrow, and feebly lon- 
gitudinally carinate; vertex with an arcuate elevation forming an 
arc with the sides of the front; surface coarsely and densely punc- 
tate, the punctures shallow, nearly confluent, with the sides not well 
defined, and the intervals densely and rather coarsely granulose, 
from each puncture arises a rather moderately long, semierect, 
cinereous hair ; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at 
bottom than on toj), and separated on the occiput by about one-half 
the distance between the antennal cavities; epistoma deeply and 
broadly triangularly emarginate in front, with the lobe on each 
side strongly angulated at middle; antennae short, the third joint 
about as long as the following two joints united. Pronotum 
strongly transverse, tAvo times as wide as long, widest at middle, 
and slightly narrower in front than behind ; sides arcuately rounded ; 
anterior margin arcuately emarginate, and without a median lobe; 
base rather strongly bisinuate, the median lobe broadly rounded, and 
truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, and without 
impressions, rather densely, but not coarsely punctate, the punctures 
deep, and well separated on disk, becoming coarser and confluent at 
sides, and separated by obsolete rugae near the posterior angles; 
intervals densely and coarsely granulose. Scutellum small, triangu- 
lar, the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely granulose. 
Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly 
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rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind middle, where 
they are slightly wider, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which 
are separately narrowly rounded; lateral margins coarsely serrate 
to middle, the teeth short, and widely separated posteriorly ; humeri 
rather prominent ; base feebly angularly lobed ; disk without longi- 
tudinal costa, but with an obsolete longitudinal costa along lateral 
margin, extending from the humeri to post-median green fascia, 
with a deep basal depression, and a more obsolete one at humeri and 
on green ante-median fascia ; surface coarsely and densely punctate ; 
intervals coarsely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath 
coarsely punctate, with the posterior and anterior margins of the 
segments smooth, the intervals finely and densely granulose, more 
shining than above, and the sides of the segments with smooth obso- 
lete nodules; first segment not impressed at middle; last segment 
with the lateral margins entire, with an obsolete submarginal ridge, 
and the apex subtruncate. Prosternum with an obsolete lobe in 
front; surface rather coarsely and densely punctate; prosternal 
process flat, triangularly expanded behind the coxal cavities, and 
with a very short obtuse tooth at apex. Femora robust; anterior 
pair Avith a sharp acute tooth on the outer edge, closer to the apex 
than base, and not serrate on the exterior margin. Anterior tibiae 
feebly arcuate, flattened on the inner surface, and without any dila- 
tations; middle and posterior pairs straight and subcylindrical. 
Length, 4.25 mm. ; width, 2 mm. 
This species was originally described from Key West, Florida, 
by Schaeffer from a female specimen. Two males from Cuba in the 
United States National Museum have been examined, one collected 
at Cayamas, June 23, by E. A. Schwarz, and the other received from 
H. F. Wickham and simply labeled Cuba. There is also a specimen 
in the collection of S. C. Bruner, collected at Camaquey, Cuba, July 
20, 1923, by J. Acuna. 
Mr. Schaeffer has kindly compared the Cuban specimen with his 
type in the Brooklyn Museum and writes that it only differs from 
the type in having the head more metallic green above and the 
abdominal segments metallic green at the sides. The type being a 
female, and the specimen from Cuba a male, would account for this 
slight color difference. 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS SEXFASCIATA, var. JAMAICENSIS, new variety 
Female. — This variety differs from the typical species by the head 
being entirely purpureous, with only a slight aeneous tinge, sides of 
the pronotum more parallel and not as arcuately rounded, and the 
lateral margins more rounded and not as sharply defined; elytra 
not as densely nor deejDly punctate, the punctures becoming obsolete 
toward the apex, the green spots more bluish, and the antemedian 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 129 
one larger, more oval, and not connected along the lateral margin 
to the transverse basal fascia, the discal spots more strongly im- 
pressed, surface more obsoletely grannlose, and the lateral margins 
more strongly serrate. Abdomen beneath more coarsely and sparsely 
punctate, the punctures very shallow and without well-defined mar- 
gins, and the sides of the segments without smooth nodules. 
Length, 4.25 mm.; width, 2 mm. 
Tyye locality. — Kingston, Jamaica. 
Tyye.—Q^X. No. 26812, U.S.N.M. 
This variety is described from a single female collected by 
Frank R. Mason at Liguanea Plain, Kingston, Jamaica, on July 5, 
1920. Through the kindness of Mr. Mason the type has been de- 
posited in the National Museum collection. 
Genus DICERCA Eschscholtz 
Dicerca Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint p. 8). 
Dicerca Lacoedaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 35-36. — Castelnau and 
Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis, pp. 93-108, pis. 24-27.— 
Kerremans, Wytsman's Geu. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 130- 
133. 
Stenuris Kibby, Richardson's Fauna Bor Amer., vol. 4, 1837. pp. 154-156. 
Head flat, rugose, and slightly wider in front than on vertex; 
front not narrowed by the insertion of the antennae ; epistoma short 
and emarginate in front; antennal cavities small and rounded, sit- 
uated at a considerable distance from the inner margin of the eyes 
in a deep triangular depression, which is surrounded on two sides by 
a strongly elevated carina. Antennae short and slender, extending 
to about the middle of pronotum ; first joint short and clavate ; sec- 
ond and third shorter and more slender, and about equal in length; 
fourth longer than third, and feebly triangular; following joints 
triangular, dentate on the inner side, and armed with a poriferous 
fovea, situated on the inferior side at the apical margin of the joint. 
Eyes rather small, oval, about two times as long as wide, feebly con- 
vex, and closer together on the vertex than at the front. Pronotum 
wider than long, more or less longitudinally grooved or carinate at 
the middle; sides variable, sometimes constricted behind, with the 
posterior angles acute; base bisinuate. Scutellum very small, 
rounded or subquadrangular. Elytra elongate, sinuate at posterior 
coxae, and strongly acuminate posteriorly, often produced into a tail- 
like process; apex unarmed, sinuate or bidentate. Sternal cavity 
formed by the mesosternum and metasternum ; mesosternum divided, 
the lateral branches somewhat elongate; metasternum rounded in 
front and feeblj- grooved at middle. Prosternum flat, concave or 
grooved; anterior margin declivous, sinuate or bilobed; prosternal 
130 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 65 
process not strongly constricted by the anterior coxal cavities and 
broadly rounded or acuminate at apex. Posterior coxae strongly 
dilated internally; anterior margin sinuate; posterior margin arcu- 
ately emarginate and strongly attenuate to the lateral margin. Legs 
rather robust, femora fusiform, the anterior and middle ones more 
strongly swollen at middle than the posterior pair; tibiae straight 
and cylindrical, the anterior pair spatulate at apex; tarsi rather 
broad; first joint of posterior pair not longer than the following 
joint. Abdomen with the suture between the first and second seg- 
ments distinct; first segment flat, concave or longitudinally grooved; 
last segment variable. Body elongate, oval, rather convex, always 
acuminate or bifurcate at apex. 
This is not a very large genus, containing only about 40 described 
species, and which are confined to the Palaearctic and Nearctic Re- 
gions. The two species recorded in the present paper from the West 
Indies are certainly not indigenous to these islands, but have been 
introduced at various times through commerce. The two species can 
be separated by the following characters. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
Pronotum and elytra very uueveu, the latter with distinct smooth elevated 
spaces tuberculata Castelnau and Gory. 
Pronotum and elytra not distinctly uneven, the latter with only obsolete ele- 
vated spaces divaricata (Say). 
DICERCA TUBERCULATA Castelnau and Gory 
Dicerca tuberculate Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, 
Buprestis, p. 99, pi. 25, fig. 135. — Chevkolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
ser. 4, vol, 7, 1867, p. 577 (separates p. 153). — Gundlach, Contribu- 
cion a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891. pp. 159-160, No. 1542. 
Dicerca liilaris LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., vol. 11, 1S59, 
p. 200. 
Dicerca manca LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., vol. 11, 1859, 
p. 201. 
Female. — Form rather narrowly elongate, attenuate behind, and 
moderately convex; above uniformly cupreous, sometimes with a 
greenish tinge, and the reliefs smooth and more brownish-cupreous; 
beneath more reddish-cupreous. 
Head feebly convex and very uneven; surface coarsely, densely 
and deeply punctate, the punctures irregular in size, confluent and 
forming a number of smooth elevated rugae, sparsely clothed with 
short, inconspicuous hairs; epistoma broadly arcuately emarginate 
in front; eyes oblong, about two times as long as wide, and feebly 
converging above. Pronotum nearly two times as wide as long, 
widest at the apical third, apex and base about equal in width ; sides 
strongly obliquely expanded from apex to apical third, where they 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 131 
are strongly angularly rounded, then broadly arcuately emarginate, 
and strongly attenuate to the posterior angles, which are nearly rect- 
angular; anterior margin broadly arcuately emarginate, with a 
broadly rounded median lobe; base feebly bisinuate; disk very 
uneven, with four shinning, elevated irregular vittae, the lateral 
ones broader and strongly interrupted behind the middle, and the 
median ones enclosing a small shining callus at the middle, there is 
also an irregular elevation extending forward from the posterior 
angles ; surface coarsely, densely, and confluently punctate in the de- 
pressions. Scutellum small, sub-quadrate and finely granulose. 
Elytra wider than pronotum at base, broadly rounded behind humeri, 
strongly sinuate at basel third, broadly expanded behind middle, then 
strongly attenuate to the tips, which are slightly expanded and di- 
vergent, and rounded or substruncate at apex; sui'fface uneven, with 
numerous irregular smooth elevated spaces, the depressions densely, 
coarsely, and confluently punctate, with a few deeper punctures in- 
termixed, which are green at the bottom, and tend to form striae on 
the disk. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather sparsely and irregularly 
punctate, and sparsely clothed with a few short recumbent hairs; 
intervals obsoletely granulose; first segment obsoletely flattened at 
middle ; last segment elongate, acutely rounded at apex, and the sur- 
face not bicostate. Prosternum feebly convex, broadly transversely 
depressed anteriorly, and without elevated costae; surface densely, 
coarsely, and confluently punctate, and sparsely clothed with short 
inconspicuous hairs; anterior margin truncate; prosternal process 
broadly sulcate at middle, feebly expanded behind the anterior coxal 
cavities, then strongly attenuate to apex, which is broadly rounded. 
Length, 15 mm. ; width, 6.5 mm. 
This species was described by Castelnau and Gory (1838) from 
North America. It is distributed over the eastern part of the United 
States, but because of much confusion in the identification of the 
species of this genus, it is difficult to give its distribution. 
Chevrolat (1867) records it from North America; Havana, Cuba; 
and Senegal, and states that it has, without doubt been imported 
into the two last countries in lumber. In the collections of Chevrolat, 
Gundlach, and Poey. Gundlach (1891) records it from Habana, 
Cuba, as having been introduced from the United States. 
This species is not represented in the Poey collection in Philadel- 
phia, but there is a single example labeled No. 842 in the Gundlach 
Museum in Habana, 
No specimens of this species have been examined from the West 
Indies, and the above description was made from a specimen from 
the United States, which agrees fairly well with Castelnau and 
Gory's short description. 
132 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol. 65 
DICERCA DIVARICATA (Say) 
Buprestis divaricata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. 3, 1823, 
pp. 163-164. 
Dicerca duMa Melsheimek, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. 2, 1844, 
p. 142. 
Dicerca aurichalcea Melsheimer, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. 2, 1844, 
pp. 142-143. 
Dicerca parumpunctata Melsheimer, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. 2, 
1844, p. 143. 
Male. — Form more broadly elongate than tuberculata^ attenuate 
behind, and moderately convex; above aeneo-cupreous, with the tips 
of elytron usually more reddish, and the surface with obscure and 
blackish elevations; beneath slightly more reddish-cupreous than 
above. 
Head feebly convex, and obsoletely concave at middle; surface 
coarsely and very densely punctato-rugose, the punctures somewhat 
irregular and confluent, with the bottoms bright green, sparsely 
clothed with long, inconsj)icuous hairs; eyes oblong, about two times 
as long as wide, and feebly converging above ; epistoma broadly, and 
rather deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum nearly two 
times as wide as long, widest near middle, slightly narrower in front 
than behind; sides strongly obliquely expanded from apex to near 
middle, where they are strongly rounded to basal third, then nearly 
parallel to. the posterior angles, which are nearly rectangular, anterior 
margin feebly arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median 
lobe; base feebly bisinuate; disk obsoletely sulcate at middle, more 
deeply impressed anteriorly, and with a deep prescutellar fovea, and 
on each side, there is usually a more or less oblique impression behind 
the middle; surface coarsely and rather densely punctate, the punc- 
tures somewhat confluent, irregularly placed, and forming irregular 
smooth elevations. Scutellum small, subquadrate, and finely strio- 
late. Elytra wider than pronotum at base, feebly rounded behind 
humeri, sinuate at basal third, then strongly arcuately attenuate to 
near the tips, where they are parallel and slightly divergent, the 
apex subtruncate, with the sutural angle acutely produced; surface 
rather even, with two short logitudinal costae at tlie apex of each 
elytron, the exterior one being the longer, striato-punctate, the striae 
not deeply impressed, and becoming obsolete toward the sides, with 
the punctures coarse and well separated, intervals coarsely and ir- 
regularly punctate, the punctures in some areas confluent and form- 
ing areolae, which are not very well defined. Abdomen beneath 
coarsely and rather densely punctate, the punctures irregularly 
placed, and with the posterior margins not very well defined, and 
sparsely clothed with long, fine recumbent hairs; intervals smooth; 
first segment very broadly and rather deeply concave at middle; last 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 133 
segment rather elongate, and acuminate posteriorly, with the apex 
deeply and rectangularly emarginate, the surface with two obsolete 
costae. Prosternum feebly convex, surface very coarsely and densely 
punctate, and sparsely clothed with long, erect, inconspicuous hairs; 
anterior margin bisinuate; prosternal process wide, deeply and 
broadly sulcate at middle, the sides smooth and extending forward to 
near the anterior margin, with the bottom of the sulcus transversely 
rugose, sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then 
strongly obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is broadly rounded. 
Female. — Differs from the male in having the head more sparsely 
punctate ; abdomen beneath more sparsely pubescent, the first segment 
not as deeply concave at middle, last segment deeply arcuately emar- 
ginate at apex, with a distinct tooth at the middle of the emargina- 
tion, and the surface more distinctly bicostate; prosternal process 
not deeply sulcate at middle, with the median part coarsely, densely 
punctate, and very sparsely pubescent. 
Length, 17-20 mm.; width, 5.5-6.5 mm. 
This species was originally described by Say (1823) from the 
United States. It is rather abundant throughout the northeastern 
part of North America from Canada to Kentucky and westward to 
Wisconsin, the larvae living in a great variety of deciduous trees. 
The admission of the species in the present paper is based on two 
specimens received from the British Museum and labeled "Haiti, 
Saunders 74^18," which were probably introduced in lumber from 
the United States. 
A number of species described by Casey ^^ have been placed as 
synonyms of this species by Leng,^^ but since the types of these 
species have not been examined, they are omitted from the synonymy 
in the present paper. 
Genus PARACINYRA, new gfenus 
Head nearly flat, wider in front than on vertex; front not nar- 
rowed by the insertion of the antennae ; epistoma short and emargi- 
nate in front ; antennal cavities small, rounded, and partially covered 
by an elevated carina, and situated a considerable distance from the 
inner margin of the eyes. Antennae rather short and slender, ex- 
tending to about the middle of the pronotum; first joint elongate and 
feebly clavate; second short and slightly elongate; third more 
slender, cylindrical, and about two times as long as the second; the 
following joints triangular, dentate on the inner side, and armed with 
a poriferous fovea situated on the inferior side at apical margin of 
the joint. Eyes rather broadly oval, nearly two times as long as 
=» Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 144-149. 
»*Cat. Coleopt. North America, 1920, p. 180. 
134 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 65 
wide, strongly convex, feebly projecting, and closer to each other on 
the vertex than at the front. Pronotum \Yider than long, wider in 
front than behind ; anterior margin and base more or less bisinuate ; 
sides feebly attenuate posteriorly ; disk without a longitudinal median 
sulcus. Scutellum small, transverse, and not acuminate posteriorly. 
Elytra elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, and acuminate at 
apex. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and metasternum ; 
mesosternum divided, the lateral branches rather small, elongate, and 
feebly oblique; metasternum feebly emarginate in front and with a 
very narrow groove at the middle. Prosternum moderately wide, 
convex, with the anterior margin rounded ; prostemal process feebly 
constricted by the anterior coxal cavities, and rather acuminate at 
apex. Posterior coxae about equally dilated internally and at the 
sides; anterior margin strongly bisinuate; posterior margin deeply 
arcuately emarginate at the middle. Legs moderately robust ; femora 
slightly swollen at middle ; tibiae straight and subcylindrical : tarsi 
short, first joint of posterior pair only slightly longer than the 
second; tarsal claws with an obtuse tooth at the base. Abdomen 
with the suture between the first and second segments distinct. Body 
narrow, subcylindrical, and strongly acuminate posteriorly. 
Genotype. — Paracinyra viridimaculata, new species. 
This genus is closely allied to Cinyra Castelnau and Gory, but it 
is much narrower and more cylindrical in form, pronotum wider in 
front than behind, and not distinctly sulcate at the middle, tips of 
the elytron strongly acuminate, prosternal process more strongly ex- 
panded behind the anterior coxal cavities, and the first joint of the 
posterior tarsi only slightly longer than the second joint. 
PARACINYRA VIRIDIMACULATA. new species 
Form narrow and subcylindrical, broadly rounded in fi>ont, and 
strongly acuminate behind; head purpureous. with a strong green- 
ish tinge, and with the epistoma and a narrow margin along the 
eyes aureo-cupreous; pronotum purpureous, strongly greenish when 
viewed in certain lights, and with the anterior margin and a rather 
broad longitudinal median band aureo-cupreous; scutellum reddish- 
cupreous; elytra purpureous, with a strong greenish tinge when 
viewed in certain lights, and each elytron ornamented with aureo- 
viridis markings as follows : A narrow band along the base extend- 
ing along the lateral margin for a short distance and also along the 
suture to the basal fourth; an irregular subtriangular spot at basal 
third, feebly oblique but not extending to the suture nor lateral 
margin ; a narrower band at apical third, which is transverse laterally 
and bent obliquely forward internally, the spot not extending to the 
lateral margin nor to the suture ; there is also a longitudinal triangu- 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 135 
lar spot at the apex. Beneath purpureous, with a strong greenish or 
bhiish tinge, more shining than above, and with the sides of the abdo- 
men aureo-cupreous. 
Head nearly flat, with a broad longitudinal sulcus, which is nar- 
rower and more deeply impressed on the vertex, and becoming more 
obsolete toward the epistoma ; surface glabrous, coarsely and densely 
punctate, the punctures rather shallow and very irregularly placed, 
the intervals smooth and shining; epistoma broadly and deeply arcu- 
ately emarginate in front, forming a broad obtuse tooth on each side 
of the emargination. Pi-onotum one and three-fourths times as wide 
as long, slightly wider in front than behind, widest at apical fourth ; 
sides feebly arcuately expanded from anterior margin to apical 
fourth, then slightly obliquely narrowed to the posterior angles, 
which are rectangular ; anterior margin nearly truncate, with an ob- 
solete median lobe ; base feebly bisinuate, the median lobe only feebly 
indicated; disk regularly convex, with a very short narrow groove 
terminating in a deep puncture in front of the scutellum; surface 
coarsely, deeply, and densely punctate, the punctures irregularly 
placed, distinctly separated on the disk, but becoming somewhat con- 
fluent at the sides, and with an irregular, longitudinal smooth median 
space, extending from the anterior margin to basal third, where it is 
replaced by the longitudinal groove, the intervals finely and densel}^ 
granulose. Scutellum oblong, nearly two times as wide as long and 
with the surface obsoletely granulose. Elytra about as wide as pro- 
notum at base, strongly acuminate posteriorly, allowing the abdomen 
to be plainly visible from above on the apical half; humeral angles 
obtusely angulated ; sides feebly expanded behind the humeral angles, 
slightly attenuate to the apical third, Avhere they are obsoletely arcu- 
ately rounded, then strongly, obliquely attenuate to the tips, which 
are very acute, the lateral margins obsoletely serrate posteriorly: 
surface striato-punctate, the striae not impressed, becoming more or 
less confused posteriorly, and the punctures large, rather deep, and 
irregularly placed in the striae, the intervals flat, transversely rugose, 
and with numerous irregularly placed punctures similar to those in 
the striae. Abdomen beneath strongly convex, rather finely, sparsely 
punctate, and sparsely clothed with a few short recumbent cinereous 
hairs; intervals obsoletely granulose; first abdominal segment con- 
vex at middle, last segment subtruncate at apex. Prosternum feebly 
transversely concave along anterior margin, which is broadly arcu- 
ately rounded, the surface sparsely, coarsely punctate, with a few 
very short cinereous hairs, and the intervals smooth on the median 
parts, but becoming strongly granulose at the sides; prosternal 
process flat, without a longitudinal sulcus, the sides slightly con- 
cave to behind the anterior coxal cavities, where they are feebly ex- 
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136 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol. 65 
panded, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is rather acutely 
rounded. 
Length, 10 mm. ; width, 3.5 mm. 
Type locality. — Guantanamo, Cuba. 
Type. — Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
This beautiful species was described from a single example col- 
lected by Chas. T. Ramsden at the type locality on June 18, 1916. 
Supei'ficially it resembles one of the larger species of the genus 
Agrilus^ but it is easily separated from any species of that genus by 
having the lateral branches of the mesosternum elongate and not con- 
cealed by the presternum. 
Genns CINYRA Castelnau and Gory 
Cinyra Castelnau and Goky, Mod. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis, pp. 157- 
160, pi. 39. — Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 45-46. — Kerremans, 
Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 137-138. 
Cynira Saundeks, Catal Bupr., 1871, p. 47. 
Leptia (part) Dejean, Cat. Coleopt, 2 ed., 1833, p. 78 ; 3 ed., 1836, p. 89. 
(No described species included.) 
Head flat or feebly convex, wider in front than on vertex; front 
not narrowed by the insertion of the antennae; epistoma short and 
emarginate in front ; antennal cavities small, rounded, partially cov- 
ered by an elevated carina, and situated a considerable distance from 
the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae rather long and slender, 
and about as long as the head and pronotum united; first joint 
elongate, and more or less clavate; second very short and globular; 
third and fourth elongate, feebly triangular, subequal in length, 
and about as long as the first; following joints elongate, triangular, 
dentate on the inner side, gradually decreasing in length to the last 
joint, and armed with a poriferous fovea situated on the inferior 
side at apical margin of the joint. Eyes rather small, oval, not two 
times as long as wide, strongly convex, somewhat projecting, and 
closer to each other on the vertex than at the front. Pronotum 
wider than long, narrower in front than behind; base and anterior 
margin bisinuate; sides subsinuate or obliquely attenuate anteriorly. 
Scutellum variable, rather small and often wider than long. Elytra 
elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, and obliquely truncate, 
emarginate or bidentate at apex. Sternal cavity formed by the 
mesosternum and metasternum; mesosternum divided, the lateral 
branches elongate and feebly oblique ; metasternum rounded in front 
and feebly grooved at the middle. Prosternum wide, flat; anterior 
margin straight, sometimes strongly declivous; prosternal process 
not constricted by the anterior coxal cavities, but strongly acuminate 
at the apex. Posterior coxae strongly dilated internally; anterior 
margin straight; posterior margin oblique internally and strongly 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 137 
arcuately emarginate toward the lateral margin. Legs feebly robust ; 
femora subfusiform, the anterior and middle ones slightly more 
swollen at middle; anterior tibiae feebly arcuate, the middle and 
posterior pairs straight and subcylindrical ; tarsi rather elongate; 
first joint of posterior pair subcylindrical and longer than the 
second. Abdomen with the suture between the first and second seg- 
ments distinct. Body elongate, slender, and attentuate posteriorly. 
This genus at present contains about 24 described species and is 
confined in its distribution to the western Hemisphere. 
Four species have been recorded from the West Indies, all of 
which are very closely allied and difficult to separate. C. albonotata 
seems to be confined to Haiti, while the other three species have 
only been recorded from Cuba. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Pronotum distinctly sulcate at middle sulcicoUis Chevrolat. 
Pronotum not or only feebly sulcate at middle 2. 
2. Elytral foveae concoloroiis with remainder of surface ; elytra nearly par- 
allel behind humeral angles ; anterior margin of prosternum declivous and 
interrupted at middle 3. 
Elytral foveae not concolorous with remainder of surface; elytra broadly 
rounded behind humeral angles ; anterior margin of prosternum declivous 
and not interrupted at middle costulifera Chevrolat. 
3. Elytral foveae rounded, distinctly impressed and regular in size ; sides of 
pronotum parallel postei'iorly multipunctata (Olivier). 
Elytral foveae more irregular, not as distinctly impressed, and more irregu- 
lar in size and shape ; sides of pronotum oblique posteriorly, widest at 
base albonotata (Castelnau and Gory). 
CINYRA SULCICOLLIS Chevrolat 
Cinyra sulcicoUis Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 
p. 580 (separates p. 156). — Gundlach, Contribucion a la Entom. 
Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 163, no. 1418. 
The following is a translation of Chevrolat's original description : 
Elongate, bronzy green with pupureous reflections; head green, 
and longitudinally rugose, sulcate behind, Avith a smooth area be- 
tween the eyes and a short sulcus above; antennae slender and 
greenish-blue; ej^es fuscous; thorax vaguely punctate, with four 
violaceous foveae placed quadrangularly, and longitudinally im- 
pressed at front and base; scutellum round, smooth, and concave; 
elytra emarginate at apex, near the suture caniculate posteriorly; 
each elytron bispinose, outside feebly punctate-striate, and inside 
sulcate-striate, interstice confusely punctate, with several sparse 
foveae which produce a costa; body beneath and legs punctate, 
greenish-blue, the abdomen sparsely clothed with short hairs, and 
with small glabrous spots at the sides. 
Length 15.5 mm. ; width. 5 mm. 
Cuba, eastern part of the island in July. Collections of Gundlach 
and Poey. 
138 PBOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAX. MUSEUM vol. 65 
This species is close to G. armata Laporte and Gory, and I place 
it in that series. It is distinguished from the two preceding 
{costulifera and inultipunctata) by the groove on the pronotum and 
by the feebly punctiform impressions on the elytra, which are about 
eight in number on each elytron. 
Chevrolat states that it can be distinguished from the two other 
Cuban species, costulifera and multi'punctata^ by the pronotum being 
sulcate. Since both of these species have the pronotum feebly sulcate 
at the middle and were represented in his collection, his species sul- 
cioollis is probably broadly and deeply sulcate. 
Gundlach (1891) records collecting it at Caimanera, near the Bay 
of Guantanamo, Cuba. 
This species is not represented in the Poey collection in Phila- 
deljihia, but there is a single example, labeled No. 1418, in the 
Gundlach Museum in Habana, which was not available for study. 
The species has been placed in the key solely upon the characters 
given in the original description, as no specimens have been available 
for study. 
CINYRA COSTULIFERA Chevrolat 
Cinyra costulifera Cheveolat, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 
p. 579 (separates, p. 155). — Gundlach, Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, 
vol. 3, pt. 5, p. 162, no. 105. 
Male. — Form elongate, more robust than albonotata or multipunc- 
tata and more flattened above; head dark aeneo-cupreous, more 
cupreous at epistoma, and becoming aureo-cupreous on the occiput, 
bottom of punctures bright green; pronotum and elytra aeneo- 
cupreous, the latter feebly purplish, with numerous bright cupreous 
or aureous foveae; beneath aeneo-cupreous, with purplish, greenish, 
or cyaneous reflections, more shining than above, and the sides of 
the abdominal segments ornated with sparsely clothed pubescent 
spots. 
Head feebly, evenly convex, without depressions, but with a dis- 
tinct longitudinal carina on the occiput; front with the sides ab- 
liquely converging to the vertex ; surface deeply, rather densely and 
irregularly punctate, with numerous irregular smooth spaces on the 
front, and sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs; epistoma 
broadly and deeply arcuately emarginate at middle, the lateral angles 
of the emargination acutely rounded. Pronotum one and one-half 
times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than behind ; sides 
feebly obliquely expanded from anterior margin to apical fourth, 
then nearly parallel to the posterior angles, which are rather acute ; 
anterior margin nearly truncate, with an obsolete, broadly rounded 
median lobe; base feebly bisinuate; disk with an obsolete median 
sulcus, a deep ante-scutellar fovea, and four densely punctured im- 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 139 
pressions, two at the base and two in front of the middle, forming 
a transverse quadrangle, the two basal ones more deeply, abriiptly 
and transversely impressed; surface coarsely, deeply and rather 
densely punctate, the punctures more remote on the post-median 
part, and the four impressions rather densely clothed with short 
cinereous hairs. Scutellum rounded, subtruncate in front, and the 
surface obsoletely striolate. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum 
at base, broadly rounded at humeral angles, arcuately expanded to 
behind humeri, nearly parallel to apical third, then strongly arcu- 
ately attenuate to the tips, which are truncate and rather deeply 
emarginate; surface striate-punctate, the striae feebly impressed, 
somewhat confused, and interrupted by the foveae, and the punctures 
in the striae very small and obsolete, intervals flat, and coarsely, 
rather densely, and irregularly punctate ; each elytron with a number 
of feebly impressed foveae, arranged as follows: First, near scutel- 
lum; second, third, and fourth on the second stria, the second one 
small, and situated at middle, fourth, and fifth larger, one at the 
apical third, the other at apex; fifth and sixth large, round, and 
situated between the third and fifth striae, one just in front of mid- 
dle, the other behind the middle ; seventh near humeral angle ; eighth 
behind the humerus; six along the lateral margin, one behind the 
humerus, one near the apex, and the other four about equally dis- 
tance apart; all of the impressions rather densely clothed with short 
fulvous hairs. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather densely and ir- 
regularly punctate, and rather densely clothed with long recumbent 
cinereous hairs; first segment feebly flattened at middle; last segment 
truncate at apex, with a deep transverse crescent shaped depression 
behind the apical margin. Prosternum feebly convex; surface 
coarsely, sparsely punctate, and nearly glabrous; anterior margin 
broadly, abruptly and strongly declivous along entire margin; 
prosternal process feebly convex, parallel to behind anterior coxae, 
then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is acutely rounded. 
Female. — Similar to the male with the exception that the head is 
dark aeneo-cupreous, the punctures are not green at the bottom, and 
the body beneath not quite as pubescent. 
Length, 15-17 mrii. ; width, 5-5.75 mm. 
This species is closely allied to albonotata and 7nultipunctata, but 
differs from both these species in being more robust and parallel 
posterior^, the elytra more broadly rounded behind the humeri, the 
elytra! foveae of a different color from the remainder of the surface, 
and the anterior margin of the prosternum not interrupted at the 
middle. 
The species was described by Chevrolat (1867) from Cuba, and 
stated that it was found in the central and eastern part of the island 
140 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol. (15 
ill the collections of Gundlach and Poey. Gundlach (1891) records 
it from both parts of Cuba. 
The following material has been examined. Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila.: Cuba (Poey Coll. No. 11). Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.: 
Rio Seco, Guantanamo, Cuba, June 8, 1908 (Chas. T. Eamsden). U. 
S. Nat. Mus.: Santiago de Cuba. (Donated by the Amer. Mus. Nat. 
Hist.) There is also a specimen labeled No. 105 in the Gundlach 
Museum in Habana which has not been examined. 
CINYRA MULTIPUNCTATA (Olivier) 
Buprestis mult%punctata Olivier, Entom., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1780, pp. 86-87, pi. 
12, fig. 137.— Hekbst, Nat. Syst. Ins. Kafer, vol. 9, 1801, pp. 180-181, pi. 
151, fig. 7. — Jacquelim Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. Pliys. 
Polit, et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 1857 (French edition), p. 
61; (Spanish edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 27. 
Ancylochira multi punctata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, 
Buprestis, pp. 148-149, pi. 36, fig. 204. 
Cinyra multipunct/ata Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, pp. 579-580 (separates, pp. 155-156). — Gundlach, Contribucion 
a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 162-163, no. 1261. 
Form elongate, slender, and moderately convex; head aureo-cup- 
reous; pronotum and elytra cupreous, with a slight aeneous tinge 
and ornated with numerous cinereous pubescent spots ; beneath cup- 
reous, with a strong aeneous or purpureous tinge, more shining than 
above and the sides of the abdominal segments ornated with small 
dense cinereous pubescent sj^ots. 
Head feebly and evenly convex, without depressions, but with an 
obsolete longitudinal carina on the occiput; front with the sides 
obliquely converging to the vertex; surface nearly glabrous, deeply 
and rather densely punctate, the punctures not quite as coarse but 
more irregularly placed than in alhonotata; intervals smooth; epis- 
toma broadly and deeply arcuately emarginate at middle, the lateral 
angles of the emargination acutely rounded. Pronotum one and 
two-fifth times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than 
behind; sides feebly obliquely expanded from anterior margin to 
apical fourth, then nearly parallel to the posterior angles, which are 
nearly rectangular; anterior margin nearly truncate, with an obso- 
lete, broadly rounded median lobe ; base feebly bisinuate ; disk feebly 
sulcate at middle, with a deep ante-scutellar fovea, and four densely 
punctured impressions, two at the base and two in front of the 
middle, forming a transverse quadrangle, the basal ones more deeply, 
abruptly, and transversely impressed; surface coarsely, deeply, and 
rather densely punctured, the punctures more remote on the post- 
median part and the four impressions and median sulcus rather 
densely clothed with short cinereous hairs. Scutellum small, 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 141 
rounded, and the surface obsoletely striolate. Elytra slio:htly wider 
than pronotum at base, obtusely rounded at humeral angles, nearly 
parallel to behind humeri, slightly sinuate at posterior coxae, then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are truncate and feebly bi- 
dentate; surface striato-punctate, the striae more deeply impressed 
than in costuUfera^ somewhat interrupted by the foveae, and the 
stria punctures small and obsolete, intervals flat, coarsely, densely, 
and irregularly punctate, the foveae round, distinct, and tJie ar- 
rangement similar to that of costulifera^ but clothed with cinereous 
hairs. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather densely, and irregularly 
punctate, and rather densely clothed with long recumbent cinereous 
hairs; first segment feebly flattened at middle; last segment sub- 
truncate at apex, with a narrow transverse depression behind the 
apical margin. Prosternum feebly convex ; surface coarsely, deeply, 
and rather densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with fine long, 
erect, cinereous hairs; anterior margin broadly but not abruptly 
declivous on each side of the middle ; prosternal process flat, parallel 
to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the 
apex, which is acutely rounded. 
Female. — Similar to the male, except that the head is dark aeneo- 
brunneus, and the prosternum and abdomen beneath not quite as 
pubescent. 
Length, 11.5-13 mm. ; width, 3.75-4 mm. 
This species resembles albonotata in general form, but the sides of 
the pronotum are more parallel and the disk more distinctly sulcate 
at the middle, the elytra more distinctly striate, and the elytral 
foveae larger, rounder, and more distinctly defined. 
This species* was originally described by Olivier (1790) from 
Sweden, but the locality being questionable, and later recorded by 
Castelnau and Gory (1838) from Habana, Cuba. Jacquelin Duval 
(1857) recorded it as having been found in Habana. Chevrolat 
(1867) recorded it from Cuba, and stated that material was in the 
collections of Gundlach, Poey, and Chevrolat. Gundlach (1891) 
records collecting it in the vicinity of "Bahia Honda y en la 
Ferinina^'' Cuba. 
The following material has been examined. Coll. British Mus. : 
One specimen labeled simply " Cuba." U. S. Nat. Mus. : Cuba 
(Chevrolat Coll.) (donated by the British Museum). The species 
is not represented in the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there 
are two examples labeled No. 1261 in the Gundlacli Museum in 
Habana which have not been seen bv the writer. 
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CINYRA ALBONOTATA (Castelnau and Gory) 
Ancylochira albonotata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, 
Buprestis, p. 149, pi. 36, fig. 205. 
Male. — Form elongate, slender, and moderately convex; head 
aureo-viridis, becoming cupreous on the occiput; pronotum and 
elytra aeneo-cupreous and ornated with numerous cinereous pubes- 
cent spots; beneath similar in color to above, but more shining, the 
sides of the abdominal segments ornated with dense cinereous pubes- 
cent spots. 
Head feebly and evenly convex, without depressions, but with a 
short longitudinal carina on the occiput; front with the sides ob- 
liquely converging to the vertex; surface nearly glabrous, coarsely, 
deeply, and rather densely punctate, the punctures regularly sepa- 
rated and not confluent; intervals smooth; epistoma broadly and 
deeply arcuately emarginate at middle, the lateral angles of the 
emargination acutely rounded. Pronotum one and three-fifths times 
as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at 
base; sides obliquely converging from base to anterior margin; 
posterior angles nearly rectangular; anterior margin nearly trun- 
cate, with an obsolete, broadly rounded, median lobe; base feebly 
bisinuate; disk with an obsolete median sulcus, a deep ante-scutellar 
fovea, and four densely punctured impressions, two at the base and 
two in front of the middle, forming a transverse quadrangle, the 
two basal ones more deeply, abruptly, and transversely impressed; 
surface coarsely, deeply, and rather densely punctate the punctures 
more remote on the post-median part, and the four impressions 
rather densely clothed with short, cinereous hairs. Scutellum 
rounded, subtruncate in front, and the surface obsoletely striolate. 
Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, obtusely rounded at 
humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind humeri, feebly sinuate at 
posterior coxae, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
truncate and feebly bidentate; surface striato-punctate, the stria 
feebly impressed, and becoming obsolete at the base and toward 
lateral margins, the stria punctures very small and obsolete, intervals 
flat, coarsely, densely, and irregularly punctate, the foveae smaller, 
more irregular, and less distinct than in costuUfera and multipunca- 
tata, but the arrangement is similar and the foveae sparsely clothed 
with very short, cinereous hairs. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather 
densely, and irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with short, 
cinereous recumbent hairs; first segment feebly flattened at middle; 
last segment broadly truncate and feebly sinuate at apex, with a 
narrow transverse depression behind the apical margin. Prosternum 
feebly convex; surface coarsely and rather densely punctate, and 
sparsely clothed with fine, long, erect, cinereous hairs; anterior mar- 
\ 
AHT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 14S 
gin broadly, abruptly declivous on each side of the middle; pros- 
ternal process flat, parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then 
obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is acutely rounded. 
Femnle. — Similar to the male, except that the head is aeneo-cupre- 
ous, and the prosternum and abdomen beneath not quite as densely 
pubescent. 
Length, 13 mm.; width 4.5 mm. 
This species was described by Castelnau and Gory (1838) from 
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and seems to be confined to that island. 
The following material has been examined. Coll. British Mus. : 
One specimen, labeled Haiti (Obert), compared with type, Kerre- 
mans, 1903-59, and two other specimens simply labeled St. Domingo. 
Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 
Genus BUPRESTIS Linnaeus 
Buprestis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, 10 ed., 175S, pp. 408-ilO. — Solier, Ann. 
Soc. Ent. France, sen 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 279-281, pi. 10, fig. 10.— 
Lacokdaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 40-42. — Kekremans, Wytsman's 
Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3. 1903, pp. 140-143.— Casey, Proc. Wash. 
Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 87-128.— Nicolay and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. 
Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 75-109, pis. 5-6. 
Ancylochira Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint p. 8). — 
Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis pp. 125-149, 
pits. 30-31; addenda p. 3. 
Anoplis KiRBY, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Axner., vol. 4, 1837, pp. 151-154. 
Head flat or feebly convex, the sides nearly parallel; front not 
narrowed by the insertion of the antennae, and sometimes feebly 
grooved; epistoma short, and usually more or less emarginate in 
front; antennal cavities small, rounded, and situated a considerable 
distance from the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae rather long 
and slender, nearly as long as the head and pronotum united; first 
joint elongate, more or less clavate; third joint at least two times as 
long as the second ; the following joints elongate, triangular, dentate 
on the inner side, and armed with a poriferous fovea situated on the 
inferior side at the apical margin of the joint. Eyes rather large, 
about two times as long as wide, moderately convex, and very feebly 
converging above. Pronotum wider than long ; sides oblique, or more 
or less arcuate, with the lateral edges feebly and narrowly margined 
posteriorly; base bisinuate. Scutellum small and rounded. Elytra 
dilated behind the humeri, attenuate posteriorly, truncate or rounded 
at apex, which is more or less bidentate; disk striato-punctate, with 
the intervals flat or elevated, sometimes the alternate intervals costate. 
Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and metastemum; Mesos- 
ternum divided, the lateral branches elongate and feebly oblique; 
metasternum emarginate in front and grooved at the middle. 
144 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL, MUSEUM vol. Go 
Prosternum narrow, flat or depressed; anterior margin truncate or 
arcuately emarginate; prosternal process not constricted by the 
anterior coxal cavities, and obtusely acuminate at apex. Posterior 
coxae strongly dilated internally ; anterior margin sinuate ; posterior 
margin oblique. Legs rather slender; anterior and middle femora 
fusiform, the former more strongly swollen at middle; posterior pair 
flattened and subcylindrical ; tibiae cylindrical, the anterior pair more 
flattened, and in the males sometimes armed with a large hook at the 
apex ; tarsi rather robust; the first joint of posterior pair longer than 
the second joint. Abdomen with the suture between first and second 
segments distinct ; last segment rounded at apex in female, truncate 
or feebly emarginate with two more or less acute teeth in the male. 
Body elongate-oval, feebly convex, enlarged at base of elytron, and 
attenuate in front and behind. 
This genus at present includes about 60 described species, and is 
distributed over the entire North Temperate Zone, with a few species 
extending their range to near the equator, and are very troublesome 
to sejDarate because of considerable variation in form, color, size, and 
sculpture within the species. The apex of the abdomen is more or 
less truncate in both sexes, sometimes more deeply sinuate in the 
male, but these secondary sexual characters are very inconstant and 
misleading, so that they should be used with caiUion in determining 
the sexes. 
The present paper includes 10 species, two of which are new, which 
have been recorded or collected in the West Indies. Eight of these 
species have been described originally from North America, and since 
the larvae of most of the species live in various species of coniferous 
trees, they possibly have been introduced into the islands at various 
times in timber from the United States. 
KEY TO THE SPUCIBS 
1. Pi'osternum broadly sulcate at middle 2. 
Prosternum not or very feebly sulcate at middle 6. 
2. Elytra striato-punctate - 3. 
Elytra costate 5. 
3. Elytral striae distinctly impressed ; elytra aeneous, with a brownish or 
purpureous tinge, and ornated with irregular fulvous spots. 
maculipennis Gory. 
Elytral striae not distinctly impressed -i 
4. Color above dull cupreous-brown apricans Herbst. 
Color above gi'een ; elytra occasionally with a median indigo-blue vittae. 
and the suture and lateral margins always cupreous decora Fabricins. 
5. Elytral costae flat, punctured ; color above dark coppery-brown. 
striata Fabricius. 
Elytral costae convex, their summits polished and not or very feebly 
punctured ; color above green to ultramarine, the suture and lateral 
margins usually cupreous aurulenta Linnaeus. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 145 
6. Elytra with distinct spots or vittae 7. 
Elytra immaculate 9. 
7. Elytron each with two reddish or fulvous vittae, more or less confluent 
and united lineata Fabricius. 
Elytron with fulvous spots or blotches 8. 
S. Color above green to dark blue, the elytra ornated with irregular fulvous 
markings fasciata Fabricius 
Color above aeneous, with a brownish or purpureous tinge, the elytra 
ornated with irregular fulvous markings maculipennis Gory. 
9. Elytral intervals between striae 2-3, 4-5, and 8-9 elevated and forming 
obtuse ridges maculativentris Say 
Elytral intervals flat 10. 
10. Elytra fulvous, with the suture, lateral margins, and bottoms of striae 
purpureo-cupreous cubensis Fisher. 
Elytra piceous, with a strong purpureous or cupreous tinge. 
decipiens Fisher. 
BUPRESTIS MACULIPENNIS Gory 
Buprestis maculipennis Goby, Mon. Bupr., Suppl., vol. 4, 1840, pp. 118-120, 
pi. 21, fig. 117. — Fleutiaux and Salle, Ann. Soc. But. France, ser. 6, 
vol. 9, 1890, p. 405 (separate p. 55). — Nicolay and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. 
Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 93-94, pi. 1, figs. 1-2. 
Ancylooheira maculipennds Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 78 ; 3 ed., 
1836, p. 88. 
Buprestis inconstans Melsheimee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc'., Phila., vol. 2, 1846, 
p. 146. 
Buprestis deficiens Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 90-91. 
Buprestis fusiformls Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 
91. 
Buprestis scripta Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 91. 
Buprestis reducta, Casey. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 92. 
Buprestis leporina Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 92. 
3Iale. — Elongate oval, shorter and less attenuate posteriorly than 
Ihieata; head aeneous, front variable in color, sometimes yellowish or 
brick-red, with two central spots and a small spot at base of each 
antennae aeneous; pronotum and elytra aeneous, sometimes with a 
brownish or purpureous tinge, the former occasionally with the apical 
angles yellowish, the latter with yellowish markings, which are ex- 
tremely variable, ranging from a few scattered spots to large con- 
fluent patches covering the entire elytra, except the humeri, suture, 
lateral margins, and a triangular spot in middle, extending from the 
lateral margins to suture and apex, but not forming vittae, as in 
lineata; beneath aeneous, the anterior part of prosternum, median 
part of sternum, and last abdominal segment more or less marked 
with yellow. 
Head flat, with a feeble longitudinal carina on occiput; surface 
coarsely and irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with incon- 
spicuous hairs: intervals smooth and rather shining; epistoma 
broadly, but feebly arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum not 
146 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 65 
quite two times as wide as long, widest at base, distinctly narrower 
in front than behind; sides strongly, obliquely attenuate from baso 
to apical angles; posterior angles acute and projecting; anterior 
margin nearly truncate at sides, with a broadly rounded median lobe ; 
surface coarsely and rather densely punctate, the punctures deep and 
irregularly placed. Scutellum oval, somewhat truncate in front. 
Elytra a little wider than pronotum at base, slightly dilated behind 
the humeri, feebly sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuately attenu- 
ate to the tips, which are truncate and rather strongly dentate ; sur- 
face striato-punctate, the punctures fine, shallow, and distinctly sepa- 
rated; intervals nearly flat, with a few coarse, irregularly placed 
punctures. Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather densely punctate^ 
the punctures variable in size and irregularly placed ; intervals finely, 
densely granulose and sparsely clothed with fine semi-erect hairs; 
first segment broadly and deeply longitudinally grooved at middle; 
last segment broadly truncate at apex, with a small tooth on each 
side, the yellow spot at each anterior angle sometimes quite large 
and forming a fascia, but usually small and rarely missing. Pros- 
ternum flat, sparsely and coarsely punctate, and the anterior margin 
nearly truncate; prosternal process narrow, not or only obsoletely 
sulcate at middle, parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then 
obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is acutely rounded. Anterior 
femora strongly swollen at middle; anterior tibiae emarginate, flat- 
tened on the inner side and armed with a large broad hook ; anterior 
tarsi much broader than the posterior ones. 
Female. — Similar to the male, but the head is a little more convex, 
yellow markings not as much extended, last ventral segment more 
rounded at apex, and the yellow markings more prominent, the an- 
terior tarsi more slender and the anterior tibiae not armed with a 
hook at the apex. 
Length, 10-14.5 mm. ; Avidth. 4.5-6 mm. 
The name maculipennis was first used in this genus by Dejean 
(1833), without giving any description, but Gory (1840) described 
the species from a specimen in the Dejean collection from North 
America. This species is distributed over the eastein United States 
from Maine to Louisiana and westward to Missouri. It is closely 
related to lineata, but can be readily distinguished from that species 
by the yellowish elytral markings, more oval in form, and dis- 
tinctly brassy tinge. The larvae is recorded as living in pine and 
hemlock. 
It has been recorded by Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) from Guade- 
loupe, but no specimens of this species have been examined from the 
West Indies. 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 147 
BUPRESTIS AFRICANS Herbst 
BupresHs apricans Hbjbbst, Nat. Syst. Ins. Kafer, vol. 9, 1801, pp. 125-126, 
pi. 145, fig. 9.— NicoLVY and Wetss, Jouvn. N. Y, Ent. Soc, vol. 2G, 1918, 
p. 88. 
Buprestis nigricornis Sturm, Cat. Ins. Samml., 1826, p. 105. 
Ancylochira iosci Castexnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis, 
pp. 146-147, pi. 36, fig. 201. 
Buprestis crihripennis Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 127. 
Male. — Oblong oval, uniformly dull cupreous-brown, sometimes 
•with a greenish or purplish tinge; beneath purpureous or aeneous, 
with a distinct cupreous tinge, and more shining than above. 
Head feebly convex, with a more or less elevated median carina ; 
surface very coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures confluent, 
and forming longitudinal rugae on the front, and rather densely 
clothed with long recumbent cinereous hairs; epistoma broadly, but 
feebly arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum a little more than 
one and one-half times as wide as long; sides variable, in same speci- 
mens feebly, arcuately rounded and widest at middle, in others ar- 
<.-uately attenuate from base to apical angles and strongly sinuate at 
basal fourth ; posterior angles nearly rectangular ; anterior margin 
arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe; surface 
€oarsely and rather densely punctate, the punctures irregularly 
I)laced and somewhat confluent at the sides and anterior margin. 
Scutellum round, and broadly depressed at middle. Elytra a little 
wider than pronotum at base, slightly dilated behind the humeri, 
strongly sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuately attenuate to the 
tips, which are subtruncate, with a small tooth at the sutural angle ; 
surface striato-punctate, the striae not impressed and the punctures 
near base at least two times as large as tlie punctures on intervals; 
intervals flat and coarsely, densely and irregularly punctate. Abdo- 
men beneath coarsely and rather densely punctate, the punctures 
deep and irregularly placed, and sparsely clothed with long recum- 
bent cinereous hairs; intervals smooth; first segment not grooved at 
middle; last segment broadly truncate and feebly sinuate at apex, 
and without lateral teeth. Prosternum rather flat, somewhat decli- 
vous in front, densely, coarsely punctate, and rather sparsely clothed 
with long recumbent hairs ; anterior margin feebly sinuate ; proster- 
nal process feebly sulcate at the middle, parallel to behind the 
jinterior coxal cavities, then feebly attenuate to the apex, which is 
very broadly rounded. Femora and tibia similar on all legs, the 
anterior tibiae without a hook at apex; anterior tarsi not distinctly 
broader than posterior ones. 
Female. — There are but slight external structural differences in 
the sexes. The females are usually larger and broader, and the 
last abdominal segment more broadly rounded at apex. 
Length, 16-24 mm. ; width, 6-9 mm. 
148 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 05 
This species was described by Herbst (1801) from America. It 
is a southern species and its distribution extends along the Southern 
Atlantic and Gulf States, from North Carolina to Texas, and in 
some parts of the South the larvae becomes quite injurious to the 
long leaf pine {Pinus palustris Miller). The admission of the 
species in the present paper is based on a single specimen in the 
Coll. U. S. National Museum, labeled "Havana, Cuba (Roig),'' 
and it is just possible that this specimen emerged from pine lumber 
shipped from the Southern States. 
BUPRESTIS DECORA Fabricius 
Buprestis decora Fakricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 217. — Olivier, Entom., 
vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, p. 18, pi. 8, fig. 82.— Cheveolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 578 (separates, p. 154). — Fleutiaux 
and SALLfi, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, p. 405 (separates,, 
p. 55). — GuNDLACH, Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 
1891, p. 161, no. 1630.— NicoLAY and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 
vol. 26, 1918, pp. 88-89. 
Ancylochira decora Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Bu- 
prestis, pp. 145-146, pi. 36, fig. 199. — Gundlach, An. Soc. Espan. Hist. 
Nat., ser. 2, vol. 22, 1894, p. 623. 
Male. — Narrow elongate; head and pronotum green, with the re- 
liefs more or less violaceous or cupreous; elytra green, occasionally 
with distinct median indigo-blue vittae, and the suture and lateral 
margins always cupreous; beneath green, with a cupreous reflection. 
Head feebly convex, with a distinct longitudinal carina on the 
occiput; surface very coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures 
confluent and forming longitudinal rugae on the front, and rather 
densely clothed with long erect cinereous hairs; epistoma broadly 
but feebly arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum not quite two 
times as wide as long, widest at base, and slightly narrower in front 
than behind; sides feebly obliquely attenuate from base to apical 
angles; posterior angles acute and slightly projecting; anterior mar- 
gin feebly arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median 
lobe ; disk sometimes with an obsolete median sulcus or smooth longi- 
tudinal area; surface deeply and densely punctate, the punctures 
very coarse, irregularly placed, and becoming somewhat confluent 
at the sides. Scutellum oval, somewhat truncate in front. Elytra 
a little wider than pronotum at base, slightly dilated behind the 
humeri, rather strongly sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuately 
attenuate to the tips, which are rather broadly truncate and biden- 
tate; surface feebly striato-punctate, the striae feebly impressed 
and becoming obsolete at sides and toward apex, the striae punc- 
tures very coarse, intermixed with smaller ones of the same size 
as those on the intervals; intervals flat and very densely punctate, 
the punctures coarse, deep, irregularly placed, and becoming con- 
fluent at sides and apex. Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 149 
densely punctate, the punctures variable in size and irregularly 
placed, rather densely clothed with long, erect, cinereous hairs; in- 
tervals obsoletely granulose; first segment not grooved at middle; 
last segment feebly sinuate at apex, with the lateral teeth obsolete 
or variable. Prosternum rather flat, rather densely clothed with 
long cinereous pubescence, and densely, coarsely punctate; anterior 
margin nearly truncate; prosternal process broadly sulcate at 
middle, parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely 
attenuate to the apex, which is rather broadly rounded. Anterior 
femora strongly swollen at middle ; anterior tibiae somewhat flat- 
tened at apex, but without a large hook; anterior tarsi much 
broader than the posterior ones. 
Female. — Similar to the male, but differs from it by having the 
head and underside of body not as densely pubescent, last ventral 
segment of abdomen more broadly truncate at apex, and the ante- 
rior tarsi not distinctly broader than the posterior ones. 
Length, 11-18 mm.; width, 4.5-6.5 mm. 
Described by Fabricius (1775) from America. This species is 
found throughout the southeastern part of North America, and its 
distribution extends from New Jersey to Texas. The adults are 
very constant in coloration, size, and form, and are not rare in the 
Southern States ; the larvae are found in pine. 
Chevrolat (1867) records it from Guadeloupe in the collection of 
Chevrolat, and from Cuba in the collections of Gundlach and Poey. 
Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record it from Pointe a Pitre, Guade- 
loupe, around the wharfs (Vitrac), and Gundlach (1891) reports 
collecting it in the eastern part of Cuba, and also records it from 
Guadeloupe and North America. Gundlach (1894) also records it 
from Porto Rico. 
The following material has been examined. Coll. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Philad.: "Cuba" (Poey Coll. No. 13). Coll. S. C. Bruner: 
Labeled " Est. Cent. Agri. de Cuba, Feb. 27," without giving any 
definite locality. There is also a single example of this species 
labeled No. 1630 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana, which has 
not been examined. 
BUPRESTIS STRIATA Fabricius 
Buprestis striata Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 217. — Olivier, Entom., vol. 
2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 15-16, pi. 7, fig. 77. — Nicolay and Weiss, Journ. 
N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 85-87. 
Ancylochira striata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Bupres- 
tis, pp. 147-148, pi. 36, fig. 202. 
Buprestis ohscura Ca<^ey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 125. 
Male. — Elongate oval, dark coppery-brown, sometimes with an 
obsolete aeneous reflection; beneath coppery-brown to bright cupre- 
ous and more shining than abovt:. 
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Head feebly convex, with a distinct longitudinal carina; surface 
very coarsely and densely punctate, the punctures confluent and 
forming smooth longitudinal rugae on the front, and sparsely 
clothed with long erect cinereous hairs ; epistoma broadly and rather 
deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum nearly two times 
as wide as long, widest at base, slightly narrower in front than be- 
hind; sides variable, feebly arcuately attenuate from base to apical 
angles, or nearly parallel to apical third, then strongly converging 
to the apex; posterior angles rather acute; anterior margin feebly 
arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe; disk 
obsoletely longitudinally sulcate at middle; surface coarsely and 
deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed, rather widely 
separated on the disk, but becoming denser and more confluent to- 
ward the sides. Scutellum rounded and impressed at middle. 
Elytra a little wider than pronotum at base, more or less dilated 
behind the humeri, nearly parallel to apical third, then arcuately 
attenuate to the tips, which are rounded, truncate, sinuate-truncate, 
or somewhat bidentate; each elytron with four costae, suture and 
lateral margin elevated, the costae smooth, rather flat, and sparsely, 
coarsely, and irregularly punctured, intervals densely and coarsely 
cribate. Abdomen beneath rather finely and densely punctate at 
middle, the punctures becoming coarser and denser toward the sides 
iind on apical segment, and sparsely clothed with long cinereous 
hairs ; first segment feebly flattened at middle ; last segment rounded, 
truncate or obsoletely sinuate at apex. Prosternum feebly convex, 
dentate, and very coarsely punctate, and sparsely clothed with long, 
erect cinereous hairs; anterior margin truncate; prosternal process 
flat, broadly sulcate at middle, smooth at sides, and densely punc- 
tured in the depression, parallel to behind anterior coxal cavities, 
then abruptly attenuate to the apex, which is broadly rounded. 
Anterior and middle femora feebly swollen at middle; anterior 
tibiae feebly flattened at apex, but without a long hook; anterior 
tarsi not distinctly broader than posterior ones. 
Female. — Usually more robust and not quite as densely pubescent 
beneath as in tlie males. 
Length, 13-20 mm. ; Avidth, 5.5-8 mm. 
This is another North American species which was described by 
Fabricius (1775) from Pennsylvania. It is rather common and is 
distributed over the entire eastern North America from Canada to 
Texas and westward to Missouri, the larvae inhabiting various species 
of pine. Only one specimen Avas examined from the West Indies 
and this was received from the British Museum and simply labeled 
'' Haiti, Saunders 74-18." 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 151 
BUPRESTIS AURULENTA Linnaeus 
Buprestis aurulenta Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12 ed., 1767, p. 661. — Olivier, 
Entom., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 18-19, pi. 9, fig. 98.— Fleutiaux and 
SAXLfi, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 405 (separates 
p. 55). — NicoLAY and AVeiss, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 
82-^4. 
Ancylochira radians LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 7, 1854, 
p. 17. 
Ancylochira lauta LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 7, 1854. p. 17. 
Ancylochira viUosa LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, p. 331. 
Buprestis fabulosa Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 119-120. 
Buprestis aemula Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 121. 
Buprestis tacomae Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 121. 
Buprestis nupta Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 121-122. 
Buprestis venusta Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 122. 
Buprestis prospera Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 123. 
Buprestis affinis Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 123. 
Buprestis adulans Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 123. 
Male. — Elongate-suboval, broader than decora; head and pro- 
notum green, with the front of head and sides of pronotiim more or 
less cupreous ; elytra pale green to ultramarine, the suture and lateral 
margins usually bright cupreous; beneath bright green or cupreous. 
Head feebly convex, with a distinct longitudinal carina; surface 
densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures confluent and forming 
longitudinal rugae on the front, and rather sparsely clothed with 
long recumbent cinereous hairs; epistoma broadly, but not deeply 
arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum not quite two times as 
wide as long, widest near basal third, narrower in front than behind; 
sides arcuately rounded to middle, then more attenuate to the apical 
angles; posterior angles nearly rectangular; anterior margin feebly 
arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe; disk 
obsoletely longitudinally sulcate at middle; surface coarsely, rather 
densely, and deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed, and 
becoming denser and more confluent toward the sides, and with a 
few inconspicuous hairs; intervals obsoletely granulose. Scutelluni 
oval, truncate at base and more or less depressed at middle. Elytra 
wider than pronotum at base, feebW dilated behind the humeri, 
sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuatel}^ attenuate to the tips, which 
are more or less rounded or subtruncate, the sutural angle frequently 
minutely dentate; each elytron with four discal costae, a short post- 
scutellar costa, suture and lateral margin elevated, the summits of 
which are smooth and not punctate; intervals very densely and 
evenly cribrate. Abdomen beneath rather finely strongly, but not 
closely punctate, and rather densely clothed with long, fine cinereous 
hairs; intervals obsoletely granulose; first segment not sulcate at 
middle; last segment truncate at apex. Prosternum feebly convex, 
the anterior margin somewhat sinuate, and the surface coarsely,. 
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densely punctate; prosternal process sulcate at middle, parallel to 
behind the anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the 
apex, which is obtusely rounded. Femora similar on all legs; ante- 
rior tibiae flattened at apex, but without a hook; anterior tarsi not 
distinctly broader than posterior ones. 
Female. — The sexes show very few external structural differences, 
the females are usually larger, more robust and the abdomen beneath 
not quite as densely pubescent. 
Length, 13-20 mm.; width, 5-7.5 mm. 
Originally described by Linnaeus (1767) from North America. It 
is one of the most beautiful Buprestids and is very common along the 
Pacific coast, the distribution extending from British Columbia to 
southern California and eastward to the Rocky Mountains. It is a 
very variable species, both in color and size, and having caused con- 
siderable synonymy. The larvae live in Douglas fir, western red 
cedar, and various species of pines. 
I have not seen any specimens from the West Indies, but Fleutiaux 
and Salle (1890) report it from Guadeloupe. If their identification 
is correct, it was probably introduced in lumber from the Western 
States, as the species is not found in the eastern part of the United 
States. 
BUPRESTIS LINEATA Fabricius 
Buprestis lineata Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, pp. 217-218. — Olivier, Entom., 
vol, 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 28-29, pi. 8, fig. 80.— Chevbolat, Ann. Soc. 
Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, pp. 577-578 (separates pp. 153-154). — 
Fleutiaux and Salle, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, p. 405 
(separate p. 55). — Gundlach, Contribucion k la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, 
pt. 5, 1891, pp. 160-161, no. 1416.— Nicolay and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. 
Ent. Soc. vol. 26, 1918, pp. 94-95, pi. 1, figs. 3-4.— Stahl, Fauna de 
Puerto Rico, 1882, p. 171. 
Ancylochira lineata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Bupres- 
tis, pp. 143-144, pi. 35, fig. 196.— Gundlach, Ann. Soc. Ent. Espan., 
Hist. Nat, ser. 2, vol. 22, 1894, p. 623. 
Male. — Elongate oval ; head aeneous, the front more or less fulvous, 
and usually enclosing two aeneous spots ; pronotum aeneous, with the 
sides brick-red or fulvous; elytra piceous with a bluish or greenish 
tinge, and each elytron with two more or less connected brick-red or 
fulvous vittae, which, although rarely wanting, are never broken up 
into distinct spots; beneath aeneous, somewhat cupreous, the ante- 
rior part of presternum and last ventral segment more or less marked 
with fulvous. 
Head flat, with a feeble longitudinal carina on occiput; surface 
coarsely and irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with incon- 
spicuous hairs; intervals smooth and subopaque; epistoma broadly 
arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum about two times as wide 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE — FISHER 153 
as long, widest at base, distinctly narrower in front than behind; 
sides strongly, obliquely attenuate from base to apical angles; pos- 
terior angles acute and projecting ; anterior margin feebly emarginate, 
with a broadly rounded median lobe; surface coarsely and rather 
densely punctate, the punctures deep and irregularly placed. Scu- 
tellum oval, and somewhat truncate in front. Elytra as wide as pro- 
notum at base, broadly dilated behind the humeri, feebly sinuate at 
posterior coxae, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are sub- 
truncate and strongly dentate; surface striate-punctate, the punc- 
tures fine, shallow, and distinctly separated ; intervals flat, with a few 
coarse, irregularly placed punctures. Abdomen beneath rather 
densely and deeply punctate, the punctures variable in size, irregu- 
larly placed, and somewhat confluent at sides and on last segment; 
intervals finely and densely granulose, and sparsely clothed with 
inconspicuous hairs; first segment broadly longitudinally grooved at 
middle; last segment broadly truncate and feebly sinuate at apex, 
with a small tooth on each side, the small fulvous spot at each ante- 
rior angle sometimes quite large and almost united into a fascia, 
but usually small and almost obsolete. Prosternum rather flat and 
coarsely and sparsely punctate; anterior margin broadly arcuately 
emarginate: prosternal process not sulcate at middle, parallel to 
behind anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, 
which is rather acutely rounded. Anterior femora strongly swollen 
at middle; anterior tibiae emargined, flattened on inner side, and 
armed with a large, broad hook at the apex; anterior tarsi much 
broader than posterior ones. 
Female. — Similar to the male, but the head is a little more convex, 
last abdominal segment more rounded at apex, the anterior tarsi 
more slender, scarcely any wider than the posterior ones, and the 
anterior tibiae not armed with a hook at the apex. 
Length, 12-20 mm.; width, 5-8 mm. 
Described by Fabricius (1775) from America. It is distributed 
over the entire eastern part of North America, from Nova Scotia to 
Texas and westward to Indiana, the larvae living in various species 
of pine. 
Chevrolat (1867) records it from Guadeloupe in the collection of 
Chevrolat, and from the central and eastern part of Cuba in the 
collection of Gundlach and Poey. Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) 
record it from Guadeloupe, and Gundlach (1891) reports taking 
it at " Cienaga de Zapata " and Santiago de Cuba, and also records 
it from Guadeloupe. Gundlach (1894) and Stahl (1882) both record 
it from Porto Rico. 
I have examined two specimens, one kindly loaned by the British 
Museum and labeled " Guadeloupe (Lhermanier) Coll. Chevrolat," 
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and which is probably the specimen referred to by Chevrolat, 
Fleutiaux, and Salle, the other in the collection of S. C. Brunery 
labeled Camagiiey, Cuba (J. Acuna). 
The species is not represented in the Poey collection in Phila- 
delphia, but there are two specimens labeled No. 1416 in the Gund- 
lach Museum in Habana, which have not been examined. 
BUPRESTIS FASCIATA Fabricius 
Buprestis fasciata Fabricius, Maut. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 177. — Olivier, 
Entom., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, p. 21, pi. 9, fig. 92.— Fleutiaux and 
Sall^, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, p. 405 (separates, p. 55). — 
NicoLAY and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 102-103. 
Buprestis sewmaculata Herbst, Nat. Syst. Ins., Kafer, vol. 9, 1801, pp. 
163-164, pi. 148, fig. 5. 
Ancylocheira {Buprestis) Ihermmieri Chevuolat, Silbennann's Rev. Ent., 
vol. 5, 1838, pp. 68-69. — Fleutiaux and Sall6, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
ser. 6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 405 (separate, p. 55). 
Ancylochira sexplagiata LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., n. ser., 
vol. 11, 1859, pp. 205-200. 
Buprestic fulgen-s Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 106-107. 
Buprestis fortunata Casey, Proc. Wash, .\cacl. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 107. 
Buprestis saturata Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 114. 
Male. — Elongate oval, bright green to dark blue ; elytra each with 
a conspicuous irregular pale fascia at apical third, a small oblique 
subapical spot, and with a large oblong or oval yellow discal spot 
behind the scutellum, but not quite attaining the base; beneath 
bright green, cupreous, or violaceous. 
Head feebly convex, with an obsolete longitudinal carina on occi- 
put; surface densely, coarsely, and confluently punctate and clothed 
with a few long inconspicuous hairs; epistoma rather deeply arcu- 
ately emarginate in front. Pronotum nearly two times as wide 
as long, widest near base, slightly narrower in front than behind; 
sides somewhat variable, evenly converging, and distinctly arcuate 
from a short and very feeble, although abrupt, basal swelling to 
the apex, and sometimes incurved at the base; posterior angles 
rather acute; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly 
rounded median lobe; disk more or less impressed along the mid- 
dle, and the ante-scutellar fovea distinct; surface deeply and rather 
densely punctate, the punctures coarse and irregularly placed. 
Scutellum small, subquadrate, truncate in front, but somewhat 
variable. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, feebly ex- 
panded behind humeri, nearly parallel to apical third, then arcu- 
ately attenuate to the tips, which are more or less bidentate; sur- 
face strongly striate, the striae distinct, evenl}^, and rather closely 
punctate; intervals feebly convex, obsoletely, and remotely punc- 
tate. Abdomen beneath rather finely and densely punctate, the 
punctures becoming coarser and denser toward the sides; intervals 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 155 
obsoletely granulose; first segment feebly impressed along middle; 
last segment broadly, arcuately emarginate at apex. Prosternum 
feebly convex, densely, coarsely punctate, and rather sparsely clothed 
with long, erect cinereous hairs; anterior margin nearly truncate; 
prosternal process feebly convex, not sulcate at middle, sides parallel 
to behind anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the 
apex, which is rather broadly rounded, anterior femora feebly 
swollen at middle; anterior tibiae somewhat flattened at apex, but 
without a large hook; anterior tarsi not broader than the posterior 
ones. 
Female. — Usually more robust than the male, each elytron with 
an irregular yellow fascia at apical third, a small subapical spot, 
and occasionally with a small yellow discal spot at middle, pro- 
sternum sparsely punctured and not conspicuously pubescent, ab- 
domen with the first segment more convex, and the last segment 
more sinuate at apex. 
Length, 11-18 mm.; width, 4.5-7 mm. 
This species was originally described by Fabricius (1787) from 
North America, and Chevrolat (1838) described the same species 
from Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe Island, under the name of 
Ihetvninie^'i. Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record both fasciata and 
Iherminieri from Guadeloupe. 
The species although having a wide distribution, is usually not 
taken in numbers. It is found from Canada to Georgia, and west- 
ward to Wisconsin, and seems to be confined to the northeastern part 
of the country. The species varies considerably in elytral markings 
and coloration, which has caused much confusion and synonymy. 
No specimens have been examined from the West Indies and the 
above description was made from specimens from the United States. 
BUPRESTIS MACULATIVENTRIS Say 
Buprestis maciilaUventris Say, Long's Second Expedition, vol. 2, 1824, p. 
272-273.— NicoLAY and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26 ; 1918, pp. 
90-91 : 
Buprestis maculiventris Gesimingek and Hakold, Catal. Coleopt., vol. 5, 
1869, p. 1378. 
Anci/lochira sexnotata Castelnau and Gory, Mou. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, 
Buin-estis, pp. 129-130, pi. 32, fig. 178. 
Ancylochira maura Castelnau and Gouy, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Bupres- 
tis, p. 131, pi. 33, fig. 181 (Not maura Olivier). 
Male — Elongate, slightly oval; head aeneous or cupreous, and 
more or less marked with yellow on the front; pronotum and elytra 
aeneous, obscure viridis or subcupreous, the former with the apical 
angles yellow, shining ; beneath aeneous to cupreous, sometimes with 
a purplish tinge, and the last four ventral segments of the abdomen 
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having on each side a reddish-yellow spot, tliose on the last segment 
being the largest and most irregular. 
Head feebly convex with a distinct longitudinal carina, surface 
coarsely and rather densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with a few 
short inconspicuous hairs; epistoma broadly, but not very deeply 
arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum nearly two times as wide 
as long, widest at base or basal fourth, narrower in front than 
behind ; sides arcuately expanded at basal half, then obliquely atten- 
uate to the apical angles; posterior angles rather obtuse; anterior 
margin feebly arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median 
lobe; disk with large sublateral smooth spaces, and a distant smooth 
median line, which is finely striate at base; surface coarsely, but not 
densely punctate, the punctures irregularly placed and more con- 
fluent toward the sides. Scutellum rounded, transverse^ oval or 
subquadrate. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, expand- 
ed behind the humeri, nearly parallel to apical third, then arcuately 
attenuate to the tips, which are rounded or truncate, and finely irreg- 
ularly dentate, the outer angle obtuse, and never dentiform ; surface 
feebly striato-punctate, the striae finely and rather closely punctured ; 
intervals coarsely, sparsely and irregularly punctate, those between 
striae 2-3, 4—5, and 8-9 elevated, and forming obtuse ridges. Abdo- 
men beneath coarsely and rather densely punctate, and sparsely 
clothed with short inconspicuous hairs, first segment broadly, longitu- 
dinally sulcate at middle; last segment sinuate, truncate or rounded 
at apex. Prosteinum nearly flat, coarsely and irregularl}' punctate, 
and nearly glabrous; anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate: 
prosternal process feebly convex, not sulcate at middle, gradually 
attenuate to the apex which is rather acutely rounded. Anterior 
femora strongly swollen at middle; anterior tibiae emarginate, flat- 
tened on inner side and armed with a large broad hook at the apex ; 
anterior tarsi distinctly broader than the posterior ones. 
Female. — Similar to the male, but the anterior tarsi not distinctly 
broader than the posterior ones, and the anterior tibiae not armed 
with a hook at the apex. 
Lenth, 12-20 mm. ; width, 4.5-7.5 mm. 
Originally described by Say (1824) from the United States. This 
species seems to be confined to the northeastern part of North 
America and its distribution extends from Newfoimdland to Penn- 
sylvania and westw^ard to Minnesota. The larvae live in various 
coniferous trees and the adults have been found emerging from 
pine timber, and have probably been introduced into Haiti in such 
produce. The following material of this species has been examined. 
Coll. British Mus. ; two specimens labelled " Haiti, compared with 
type, 6-notata Castelnau and Gory, Saunders, 74-18." 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 157 
Castelnau and Gory (1838) g^ive a description and figure of a 
species from Santo Domingo, which they supposed was the species 
described by OHvier as Buprestis nnaura. A translation of their de- 
scription is as follows: 
Length 9 lines, width 314 lines. Coppery bronze and very finely 
granulose. Head with several yellow spots. Sides of pronotum of 
the same color and with two small smooth spaces and a small im- 
pressed fovea behind. Elytra feebly obliquely truncate at tips, the 
surface striate and the interyals finely punctured. Abdomen with 
a yellow spot on each side and a transverse band on the last segment. 
Santo Domingo. 
It is certainly not the same as the species described by Olivier, of 
which the following is a translation : 
Size of Buprestis austriaca. Antennae black and serrate. Above 
entirely violet-black. Thorax with an impressed longitudinal groove. 
Scutellum small and rounded. Elytra striate and bidentate at apex. 
Found in South America. 
The specimens from Haiti which were loaned by the British 
Museum are the same as the specimens of niaculativentria Say from 
the United States, and also agree very well with the figure and de- 
scription given by Castelnau and Gory for maura^ but since this is 
not the species described by Olivier under that name I have place 
niaura Castelnau and Gory as a synonym of maculativeyitris Say. 
The true Buprestis maura described by Olivier is probably confined 
to South America. 
BUPRESTIS CUBENSIS, new species 
Male. — Form narrowly elongate; head piceous, with a strong 
purplish or bluish tinge, the entire front reddish-yellow, with two 
irregular central spots, and a small spot at base of each antennae 
cu]3reous or purplish black ; pronotum and scutellum piceous, with a 
strong greenish or purplish tinge, the former with the anterior 
margin narrowly pale yellow, and the sides more broadly margined 
with reddish-yellow; elytra fulvous, becoming more reddish-yellow 
laterally, and with the suture, lateral margins and bottoms of striae 
purplish-cupreous; beneath brownish-cupreous, with the sternum, 
median parts of abdomen, and under side of femora more or less 
marked with a reddish-yellow color. 
Head feebly convex, with a very narrow obsolete carina on occiput ; 
surface irregularly, coarsely, but not deeply punctate, the punctures 
irregular in size and somewhat confluent on the occiput ; intervals 
smooth and nearly glabrous; eyes feebly converging above, feebly 
convex, oval, and about two times as long as wide ; epistoma broadly 
but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum nearlj'^ two 
times as wide as long, widest at basal fourth, distinctly narrower in 
front than behind ; sides regularly arcuately expanded on basal half, 
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then obliquely attenuate to the apical angles ; posterior angles nearly 
rectangular; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly 
rounded median lobe; base rather strongly bisinuate; surface 
coarsely, deeply, and irregularly punctate, the punctures more widely 
and irregularly separated on the disk, but becoming more confluent 
toward the sides. Scutellum subquadrate, truncate in front, and 
rounded behind. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, 
strongly expanded behind the humeri, feebly obliquely attenuate to 
apical third, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are trans- 
versely truncate, feebly sinuate and bidentate; surface striato-punc- 
tate, the striae not deeply impressed and the punctures fine and 
rather closely placed; intervals flat, not alternately elevated, and 
with a few shallow, coarse, and irregularly placed punctures. Ab- 
domen beneath coarsely, sparsely, and irregularly punctate, and 
sparsely clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs; intervals 
finely and densely granulose; first segment broadly obsoletely sul- 
cate at middle; last segment broadly truncate and feebly sinuate at 
apex. Prosternum feebly convex, shining, and very sparsely, 
coarsely punctate ; anterior margin straight and narrowly declivous ; 
prosternai process feebly convex, not sulcate at middle, parallel to 
behind the anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the 
apex, which is rather acutely rounded. Anterior femora slightly 
more swollen at middle than the middle or posterior ones; anterior 
tibiae emarginate, flattened on the inner side, and armed with a large 
broad hook at apex ; anterior tarsi distinctly broader than posterior 
ones. 
Female. — Unknown. 
Length, 14.5 mm. ; width, 5.5 mm. 
Type locality. — Vinales, Cuba. 
Tyj^e and paratype. — Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
Paratype.—C2it. No. 26813, U.S.N.M. 
This species is described from three specimens received from the 
American Museum of Natural History, which were collected by C. W. 
Leng at the type locality between September 16 and 22, 1913, the 
vegetation consisting of scattered pines with a few oaks, etc. 
BUPRESTIS DECIPIENS, new species 
Fem<de. — Form broadly elongate-oval; above uniformly piceous, 
with a strong purplish or cupreous tinge, head with a few small 
yellow spots on the front near epistoma, and the sides of the pro- 
notum obsoletely reddish-brown; beneath brownish-cupreous, with 
the sternal regions reddish-brown. 
Head feebly convex, with a very narrow obsolete carina on the 
occiput; surface somewhat uneven, coarsely and rather deeply punc- 
tate, the punctures irregularly placed and confluent in some places; 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 159 
intervals smooth and nearly glabrous; eyes feebly converging above, 
feebly convex, oblong, and about two times as long as wide ; epistoma 
broadly but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum 
two times as wide as long, widest at basal fourth, distinctly narrower 
in front than behind; sides regularly arcuately expanded on basal 
half, then obliquely attenuate to apical angles; posterior angles 
nearly rectangular; anterior margin feebly arcuately emarginate, 
with a broadly rounded median lobe ; base rather strongly bisinuate ; 
disk with a broad obsolete longitudinal depression in front of scutel- 
lum, and a deep irregular one on each side near lateral margin ; sur- 
face coarsely and deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed, 
more remotely separated on the disk and becoming more or less con- 
fluent in some areas. Scutellum subquadrate, truncate in front, and 
rounded behind. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, 
rather strongly expanded behind the humeri, obliquely attenuate to 
apical third, then strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
truncate, sinuate, and more or less bidentate ; surface striato-punctate, 
the striae not deeply impressed, and the punctures fine and rather 
closely placed ; intervals feebly convex, not alternately elevated, and 
with a few coarse irregularly placed punctures. Abdomen beneath 
coarsely, sparsely and and irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed 
with short recumbent cinereous hairs; intervals finely and densely 
granulose; first segment broadly flattened at middle; last segment 
rounded and more or less sinuate at apex. Prosternum feebly con- 
vex, shining, coarsely and very sparsely punctate; anterior margin 
feebly arcuately emarginate and narrowly declivous; prosternal 
process strongly convex, not sulcate at middle, parallel to behind the 
anterior coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which 
is acutely rounded. Anterior femora slightly more swollen at mid- 
dle than middle or posterior ones ; anterior tibiae feebly flattened on 
inner side, but not armed with a broad hook at apex ; anterior tarsi 
not distinctly broader than posterior ones. 
Male. — Unknown. 
Length, 19 mm. ; width, 7.5 mm. 
Type locality. — Vinales, Cuba. 
Other localities. — Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines. 
Type. — Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paratype. — Carnegie Museum. 
Paratype.—C2it. No. 26814, U.S.N.M. (fragments). 
This species is described from three specimens, one of which is 
in fragments. Two of these were received from the American 
Museum of Natural History and were collected at the type locality 
by C. W. Leng, between September 16 and 22, 1913, the vegetation 
consisting of scattered pines, with a few oaks, etc. The other speci- 
men was received from the Carnegie Museum and was collected at 
Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, by G. Link, during March, 1913. 
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It is just posible that this may be the female of cuhensis Fisher. 
Both of these species were collected in the same locality by Mr, Leng, 
and they resemble each other in a number of respects, but the colora- 
tion is entirely different. On account of these differences and with- 
out additional notes on their habits, it seems advisable to describe 
them as two distinct species, but should they prove to be sexes of the 
same species, it would show an extreme case of dichromatism, which 
would be unusual in this genus. 
Genus MIXOCHLORUS Waterhouse 
Mixochlorus Watekhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1887, p. 177. — Kekre- 
MANs, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 1903, pp. 60-61. 
Head feebly convex ; epistoma wide, not narrowed by the antennal 
cavities and bisinuate in front; antennal cavities small, round, sit- 
uated under a distinct carina at some distance from the eyes. Anten- 
nae 11-jointed, rather short and slender; first joint elongate, cla- 
vate and abruptly arcuate near base ; second oblong, about two-thirds 
as long as third; third elongate, cylindrical and not quite as robust 
as the second; the following joints graduallj^ becoming shorter toward 
the terminal joint, triangular (except the last joint, which is trans- 
versely oval), strongly serrate on the inner side, the serrate joints 
having the poriferous pores in a cavity on the lower anterior margin 
of the joints. Eyes large, broadly oval, strongly convex, and paral- 
lel on the inner margin. Pronotum a little wider than long, wider in 
front than behind, disk strongly convex, with three longitudinal im- 
pressions; base truncate or feebly bisinuate. Scutellum small, and 
touching the pronotum. Elytra elongate, truncate at base, and gi'ad- 
ually acuminate posteriorly, punctato-striate, and longitudinally im- 
pressed at the suture. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and 
metasternum, the lateral branches of the former elongate. Metaster- 
num feebly emarginate in front. Prosternum truncate in front, and 
not grooved at middle. Posterior coxae scarcely dilated internally, 
the anterior margin sinuate and the posterior margin nearly straight. 
Legs rather robust ; femora feebly swollen at middle ; tibiae slender, 
and cylindrical; tarsi short, the first joint of the posterior pair about 
as long as the following two joints united; tarsal claws angularly 
dilated at base. Body agriliform. 
This genus was erected by Waterhouse for a new species Mixo- 
chlorus suturalis from Honduras, and later he added lateralis from 
Mexico.^* He states that it is clearly allied to Agaeocera and Pele- 
copselaphus. The genus was unknown to Kerremans and in -^ he has 
placed it in the tribe Chalcophorini. If we follow the Kerremans 
=^ Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 8, pt. 1, 1889. p. 168. 
* Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 1903, pp. 60-61. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 161 
classification, this genus slioiild not be included in the tribe Chal- 
cophorini as the antennal pores are placed on the lower anterior 
margin of the joints, but should be placed in the tribe Buprestini 
near the genus Peronaemis Waterhouse, to which it is closely allied. 
MIXOCHLORUS ELEGANS, new species 
Agriliform, broadly rounded in front and strongly acuminate 
behind, shining and nearly glabrous; head green, with a large tri- 
angular reddish-cupreous spot on the occiput, the spot divided longi- 
tudinally by a narrow green line; pronotum and elytra reddish- 
cupreous, the former with the lateral margins, sides of the anterior 
margin, and the median impressions aureo-viridis, the latter with 
the base, sutural and lateral margins aureo-viridis, the green area 
along the suture on each elytron rather wide from the base to basal 
third, then strongly constricted to behind the middle, where it is 
expanded into a wide triangular area, which extends internally to 
about the middle of the elytron; beneath viridis, with a feeble 
cupreous reflection; tibiae and tarsi aeneous. 
Head feebly, evenly convex, nearly flat between the eyes, with a 
short longitudinal carina on occiput, and without any distinct im- 
pressions ; surface glabrous, densely, and deeply punctate, the punc- 
tures large and becoming confluent on the front; intervals smooth 
on the front, becoming obsoletely granulose on the occiput ; epistoma 
wide between the antennal cavities (about three times as wide as 
the cavities) , rather deeply arcuately emarginate in front, and with 
an obtuse tooth on each side of the emargination. Pronotum 
strongly convex, slightly wider than long, slightly wider in front 
than behind, and widest near apical angles; sides feebly obliquely 
attenuate from near apical angles to the posterior angles, which are 
rather acute ; anterior margin with a broadly rounded median lobe ; 
base feebly bisinuate; surface with three longitudinal impressions, 
the median one broad and extending from the base to the front 
margin, more deeply impressed on the basal half, and a lateral one 
on each side about midway between the lateral margin and median 
depression, these impressions not as deeply impressed as the median 
one at base, and not reaching to the front margin ; the surface is also 
regularly, densely, and coarsely punctate, the punctures deep, with 
well-defined sides, and distinctly separated, the intervals finely and 
densely granulose. Scutellum square and finely granulose. Elytra 
as wide as pronotum at base, widest just a little behind the humeral 
angles (when viewed laterally is strongly, arcuately expanded and 
declivous near humeral angles), nearly parallel and feebly sinuate to 
behind the middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 
acute, with the lateral margins finely dentate near the apex ; humeri 
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rather prominent; surface broadly, transversely impressed along 
base, and with an obsolete longitudinal impression along suture be- 
hind the triangular green area, irregularly punctato-striate, the 
punctures deep and coarse, and the striae somewhat confused ; inter- 
vals densely punctate and finely rugose, the punctures irregularly 
placed, equal in size to those in the striae and somewhat confused, 
except on the disk. Abdomen beneath rather strongly convex, 
rather denselj^ punctate, the punctures shallow, well separated, and 
becoming finer toward the apical segment, and from each puncture 
arises a short recumbent cinereous hair; intervals finely and densely 
granulose; last segment strongly attenuate, truncate at apex, with 
the preapical margin broadly, arcuately emarginate. Prosternum 
very coarsely jDunctate; anterior margin truncate and declivous; 
prosternal process nearly flat, with the apex rather broadly rounded. 
Length, 8 mm.; width, 2.25 mm. 
Type locality. — Sanchez, Dominican Republic. 
Type. — American Museum of Natural History. 
This beautiful insect is described from a single specimen loaned 
to me by the American Museum of Natural History, and collected 
by F. E. Watson along a creek at the foot of a mountain about three- 
fourths of a mile north of Sanchez, Dominican Republic, between 
May 28 and 31, 1915. 
At first sight this insect might be mistaken for a species of Agrilus 
or Engyaulus^ but can be distinguished from these genera by the 
characters given in the key. It is very closely allied to Mixochlorus 
suturalis, described from Honduras by Waterhouse, but can be sepa- 
rated from that species by having the pronotum wider in front than 
behind, and the green sutural vitta irregular, expanded behind scu- 
tellum and middle of elytron, and not straight as in suturalis. 
Genus PERONAEMIS Waterhouse 
Peronaemis Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1SS7, p. 178. — Kerre- 
MANS, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 145-146. 
Head feebly convex ; epistoma wide, not narrowed by the antennal 
cavities and nearly truncate in front ; antennal cavities rather large, 
triangular, rounded behind and prolonged into a groove in front, 
situated under an obsolete carina at some distance from the eyes. 
Antennae 11-jointed, rather short and slender; first joint elongate, 
clavate and abruptly arcuate near base; second oblong, about two- 
thirds as long as the third ; third elongate, cylindrical, feebly clavate 
at apex, and not quite as robust as the second, the following joints 
gradually becoming shorter toward the apical joint, triangular (ex- 
cept the last joint, which is nearly round), strongly serrate on the 
inner side, the serrate joints having the poriferous pores in a cavity 
on the lower anterior margin of the joints. Eyes large, oviform, 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE — FISHER 163 
strongly convex, and nearly parallel on the inner margin. Prono- 
tum a little wider than long, narrower in front than behind, strongly 
convex anteriorly, with three deep ovate impressions at the base; 
lateral margins not visible anteriorly from above. Scutellum trans- 
verse and trapezoidal. Elytra elongate, sinuate at base and strongly 
acuminate toward the apex. Sternal cavity formed by the meso- 
sternum and metasternum, the lateral branches of the former elon- 
gate. Metasternum truncate in front. Prosternum truncate in front 
and not grooved at middle. First and second segments of abdomen 
distinctly separated by a suture. Posterior coxae feebly dilated in- 
ternally, the anterior and posterior margins arcuately emarginate. 
Legs rather robust; femora feebly swollen at middle; tibiae slender, 
cylindrical and straight; tarsi short, the first joint of posterior pair 
scarcely as long as the second and third united ; tarsal claws broadly 
angularly dilated at base. Body agriliform. 
This is a monobasic genus and was erected for thoracicus Water- 
house. 
It is closely allied to Mixochlorus but differs from it in having the 
pronotum narrower in front than behind, more strongly convex 
anteriorly, and the three basal impressions deeper and only reaching 
to the middle; scutellum transverse and the elytral intervals more 
costiform. 
PERONAEMIS THORACICUS Waterhouse 
Peronaemis thoracicus Watekhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1887, pp. 
178-179, figure. 
Broadly agriliform, broadly rounded in front and strongly acumi- 
nate behind, narrower behind than in front, shining and glabrous: 
head green, the entire median part reddish-cupreous; pronotum 
reddish-cupreous, with the base brownish- aeneous and the lateral 
impressions partialh^ greenish; scutellum green; elytra aeneous and 
ornated with irregular brownish areas: elytral epipleura bluish- 
green; beneath bluish-green, with aeneous and purplish reflections, 
and the sides of prosternum reddish-cupreous. 
Head feebly and evenly convex, nearly flat betAveen the eyes and 
with a short, obsolete, longitudinal carina on the occiput, and with- 
out any distinct impressions; surface densely and deeply punctate, 
the punctures coarse, irregularly placed, and becoming somewhat con- 
fluent at the sides; intervals finely and densely granulose; epistoma 
wide between the antennal cavities (about four times as wide as the 
cavities), feebly, broadly arcuately emarginate in front with the sides 
strongly angulated. Pronotum strongly convex anteriorly, one and 
one-third times as wide as long, slightly Avider at base than at apex, 
and widest at base; sides broadly, arcuately rounded from apical 
angles to basal fourth, then obliquely expanded to the posterior 
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angles, which are slightly diverging and acute ; anterior margin with 
a broadly rounded median lobe; base nearly truncate to middle of 
elytron, with a broadly rounded median lobe ; when viewed laterally 
the lateral margin runs obliquely downward and disappears ante- 
riorly; surface with three large basal impressions extending to the 
middle, the median one is rather broader than the others, densely and 
coarsely punctate, the punctures deep, rather irregularly placed and 
becoming more widely separated in the impressions; intervals nearly 
smooth except in the impressions where they are densely, finely gran- 
ulose. Scutellum about two times as wide as long; sides obliquely 
narrowed anteriorly; posterior margin broadly rounded; surface 
finely and densely granulose. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum 
at base; sides strongly angulated a little behind the humeral angles, 
nearly j^arallel to apical third, w^iere they are broadly rounded, then 
strongly acuminate to the tips, which are acute, with a tooth at the 
apex of each elytron, and the lateral margins finely and irregularly 
denticulate; humeral angles nearly rectangular, surface broadly im- 
pressed at base, there is a quadrangular spot occupying the scutellar 
region, and a second square spot along lateral margin at middle of 
the elytron, but not extending to the- suture, of a brownish color, more 
shining, and slightly more elevated than the rest of the elytra, the 
humeral callosity and the margin near the base are also of the same 
brownish color, the surface is also punctate-striate, the punctures 
coarse at the base but becoming finer toward the apex; intervals 
slightly costiform, with a few coarse, irregularly placed punctures, 
and becoming densely granulose and somewhat rugose posteriorly. 
Abdomen beneath strongly convex, rather densely punctate, the 
punctures large, well separated, and becoming finer toward the apex, 
and from each puncture arises a rather long, recumbent hair ; inter- 
vals finely and densely granulose; last segment strongly attenuate, 
and rather deeply arcuately emarginate at apex. Prosternum very 
coarsely punctate, the punctures deep and well separated; anterior 
margin truncate and declivous; prosternal process nearly flat, sides 
parallel to behind coxae, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which 
is broadly rounded. Posterior coxae with the surface strongly con- 
cave, sparsely punctate, the punctures very coarse internally but 
becoming finer in the concavities. 
Length, 10.5 mm. ; width, 3.5 mm. 
This species was described from Jamaica by Waterhouse. 
Through the kindness of the British INIuseum I have been able to 
examine a single specimen from their collection labeled "Jamaica " 
and from which the above description was made. Superficially this 
species resembles specimens of the genus Agrilus, but the lateral 
branches of the mesosternum are distinct and the species is remark- 
able in having three deep basal depressions on the pronotum. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 165 
Genus AGLAOSTOLA Thomson 
Aglaostola Saunders, Catal. Bupr., 1871, p. 47.— Lafert^ MSS.— Thomson, 
Typ. Bupr., 1878, p. 42. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, 
fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 155-156. 
Head flat, front rugose; epistoma narrowly and deeply emargi- 
nate in front, the emargination forming a semicircle, and the sides 
produced into an acute lobe, not narrowed by the antennal cavities, 
which are large, somewhat triangular, and situated under a distinct 
carina at some distance from the inner margin of the eyes. An- 
tennae 11-jointed, rather long and slender; first joint clavate, 
elongate and abruptly arcuate near base; second obconic, about one- 
half as long as the third; third elongate, slightly flattened, and 
about three-fourths as long as the first; fourth and fifth elongate, 
about equal in length to the third and feebly enlarged at apex ; the 
following joints gradually becoming shorter toward the terminal 
joint, triangular, strongly enlarged at apex (except the last joint, 
which is oval), and strongly dentate on the inner side; joints four 
to eleven armed with a large subterminal poriferous fovea. Eyes 
elliptical, oblique, and nearer to each other on the vertex than at 
the front. Pronotum wider than long, trapeziform, disk moder- 
ately convex; sides obliquely narrowed anteriorly; anterior margin 
sinuate, with a median lobe; base nearly truncate. Scutellum sub- 
pentagonal, a little wider than long, and attenuate posteriorly. 
Elytra elongate, truncate at base, without distinct basal depressions 
and entirely covering the pygidium; sides nearly parallel in front, 
then strongly acuminate to the tips, which are strongly bidentate, 
the lateral margins unarmed. Sternal cavity formed by the meso- 
sternum and metasternum, the lateral branches of the former elon- 
gate and curved. Metasternum lobed in front. Prosternum with the 
anterior margin truncate at middle, and strongly lobed on each side ; 
prosternal process wide, arcuately emarginate between the anterior 
coxae, and acuminate at apex. Posterior coxae distinctly dilated in- 
ternally; anterior margin straight; posterior margin oblique. Legs 
rather robust; anterior and middle femora strongly swollen at mid- 
dle; tibiae slender and cylindrical; tarsi rather long; first joint of 
posterior pair about as long as the following two joints united; sides 
of third joint prolonged beyond the fourth; tarsal claws with a 
feeble tooth at base. 
This is a monobasic genus, and the name was first used by Saun- 
ders (1871) for tereticollis Pallas without giving any description. 
Thomson (1878) described the genus and uses the same name. 
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AGLAOSTOLA TERETICOLLIS (Pallas) 
Buprestis tereticollis Pallas, Icon. Ins., 1782, pp. 75-76, pi. D, fig. 18. 
Buprestis corusca Fabbicius, Mant. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 176. 
Female. — Elongate, navicular, attenuate in front, more acuminate 
posteriorly, and narrower behind than in front, glabrous, shining, 
golden-green above, with a bluish reflection in certain lights, and 
each elytron ornated with an irregular cupreous spot along lateral 
margin near apex; beneath golden-green, with a bluish reflection, 
and the abdomen cupreous, esi^ecially toward the sides. 
Head feebly convex, front flat, triangular, about three-fifths as 
wide at vertex as at base, with a narrow longitudinal groove on the 
occiput, and a broad transverse impression behind the epistoma ; sur- 
face glabrous, with numerous large, deep, irregularly placed punc- 
tures, and the intervals more finely, obsoletely and irregularly punc- 
tate. Pronotum regularly convex, with a ix)und deep fovea in front 
of scutellum, a triangular one on each side along base at middle of 
elytron, and a narrow transverse groove on each side along the an- 
terior margin, the groove not extending to the middle, one and one- 
half times as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, 
widest at base ; sides obliquely attenuate from base to anterior mar- 
gin; anterior margin with the median lobe rather obsolete, but 
broadly rounded; posterior angles nearly rectangular; surface with 
numerous large, deep, irregularly placed punctures, the intervals 
finely, obsoletely, and rather densely punctate. Scutellum smooth. 
Elytra wider than pronotum at base, widest just behind humeral 
angles, which are broadly rounded; sides broadly rounded be- 
hind humeral angles and nearly parallel to just behind the 
middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are feebly ex- 
panded, strongly emarginate and produced into two strong teeth, 
one at the suture and the other at the lateral margin, the teeth 
about equal in length; surface nearly smooth, with a few obsolete 
costae at apex, sparsely punctate, the punctures rather large, irregu- 
larly placed and tending to form longitudinal rows in some places, 
the intervals very finely irregularly punctate, and obsoletely rugose. 
Abdomen beneath strongly convex, sparsely punctate, the punctures 
rather large, irregularl}^ placed, and from each arises an obsolete, 
erect hair; intervals finely and densely granulose; first segment 
broadly but not deeply grooved for its entire length; last segment 
deeply arcuately emarginate at apex. Prosternum convex without a 
median groove ; apex rather acute ; surface with numerous large and 
very fine punctures intermixed. 
Length, 19-22 mm. ; width, 6.5-7 mm. 
Male. — Similar to the female but differ from it in being smaller 
and having the last abdominal segment nearly truncate at apex, with 
the preapical margin feebly, arcuately emarginate. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 167 
Length, 13 mm. ; width, 4.25 mm. 
Pallas (1782) in his orio^inal description gives Brazil as the type 
locality for this species which is probably an error. Fabricius (1787) 
described the same species from Jamaica under the name corusca. 
This species, as far as known, is confined to Jamaica, and specimens 
have been examined from the following collections : Coll. W. J. Hol- 
land: Three specimens, from Jamaica (F. Klages). Coll. British 
Mus. : One specimen, labeled " Parry, compared with type corusca 
Fabr. Coll. Banks, Saunders 74-18 " ; another labeled " Jamaica 
(Tarnier)," determined by Kerremans as tereticollis Pallas; and a 
third specimen simply labeled "Jamaica." Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : 
One specimen, Jamaica (F. Klages) (donated by Dr. W. J. Holland) . 
Genus ANTHAXIA Eschscholtz 
Anthaxia Eschscholiz, Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint, p. 8). — 
SoLiEE, Ann. Soc. Ent. Prance, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 297-298, pi. 12, 
fig. 22. — Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1839, pp. 1-2, pi. 1. — 
Lacoruaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 49-50. — Kekkkmans. Wytsnian's 
Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 170-177. 
Cra torn ems Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 295-296, 
pi. 12, fig. 21.— Castelnau and Gory, Mou. Bupr., vol. 2, 18.39, p. l,.pl. 1. 
Head vertical, front flat or concave, sometimes impressed along 
epistoma and not narrowed by the insertion of the antennae; ep- 
istoma short, wide, and sinuate or emarginate in front; antennal 
cavities small, round, not concealed by a carina, and situated nearer 
the epistoma than the eyes. Maxillary palpi three jointed; first 
joint elongate and enlarged at apex; second short, obconical ; the 
third cylindrical or suboval. Antennae 11-jointed, short and slender, 
except the males of some CrcUomen/s, which have it rather robust; 
first joint elongate and clavate; second and third short, obconical, 
the third usually longer than second ; the following joints triangular, 
dentate on the inner side, and with terminal poriferous pores. Eyes 
large, oval, subparallel or feebly converging on the vertex, and sinu- 
ate on inner margin. Pronotum transverse, quadrangular, rarely as 
long as wide; sides arcuately rounded; anterior margin bisinuate or 
emarginate, with a more or less distinct median lobe; base trun- 
cate or obsoletely rounded. Scutellum small, triangular, or ogival. 
Elytra truncate at base, apex rounded, and the lateral margin dentate 
or unarmed. Mesosternum divided. Metasternum truncate in front 
and with a groove at the middle, the ei)imera visible at the side. 
Posterior coxae moderately dilated internally, the anterior side sinu- 
ate or horizontal, the posterior side oblique and a little arcuate. Legs 
more or less robust, often slender; femora fusiform, rather thick, 
the posterior pair sometimes swollen and arcuate ; tibiae slender and 
cylindrical ; tarsi with first joint elongate, second shorter, third and 
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fourth enlarged and cordiform. Body oval, rarely elongate, and 
feebly convex above. 
The genus Cratomerus was erected by Solier for the species having 
the antennae robust and the intermediate joints enlarged, and the 
posterior femora swollen and arcuate in the males, but these char- 
acters are not only variable in the species, but also vary among in- 
dividuals of the same species. 
This genus has a very wide distribution, the species being found 
in all parts of the world, with the exception of Australia. The 
species are quite variable in color, difficult to separate and have caused 
considerable synonymy. Previously only one species has been re- 
corded from the West Indies. 
ANTHAXIA BIFOVEATA. new species 
Form oblong, strongly depressed, broadly rounded in front and 
more attenuate behind; head violaceous; pronotum and scutellum 
piceous, with a strong bluish tinge; elytra bluish-green; beneath 
cyaneous, with the prosternum and middle of abdomen more 
greenish. 
Head feebly convex, with the front rectangular and the sides 
feebly sinuate and parallel; front broadly and rather deeply de- 
pressed; surface glabrous, coarsely and rather densely punctate, the 
punctures very shallow, irregularly placed, and coarsely and densely 
granulose; eyes large, moderately convex, and parallel; epistoma 
narrow, feebly triangularly, but not deeply emarginate in front; 
antennae short, the serrate joints wider than long. Pronotum 
strongly transverse, one and three-fifths times as wide as long, wid- 
est at middle, slightly narrower in front than behind; sides regu- 
larly and rather broadly rounded to near posterior angles, where 
they are slightly sinuate; posterior angles acutely angulated; ante- 
rior margin deeply arcuately emarginate, with an obsoletely rounded 
median lobe ; base obsoletely rounded ; disk moderately convex, with 
a large, very deep impression on each side at the posterior angles, 
each impression covering about one-third of the basal region, extend- 
ing to the base and lateral margins, and connected to each other at 
the basal third by a transverse shallow, broadly concave impression ; 
surface coarsely, densely granulose, and obsoletely reticulate, the 
reticulation irregular and somewhat oval on the median parts, but 
becoming longtitudinally strigose at the sides. Scutellum ogival, 
surface densely, coarsely granulose. Elytra as wide as pronotum 
at middle ; sides obtusely angulated at humeral angles, nearly parallel 
to apical fourth, then strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which 
are separately narrowly rounded; lateral margins obsoletely serrate 
posteriorly; humeri prominent; base truncate; disk with a rather 
broad basal impression, deeper at the humeri and becoming more 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 16& 
obsolete toward the scutellum, there is also a narrow impression 
along the lateral margin extending from the humeral angles to apex, 
and a similar one along the suture near apex, causing the suture to 
be slightly elevated posteriorly ; surface densely and coarsely gi-anu- 
lose, becoming somewhat rugose in basal region, and with irregular 
rows of coarse, irregularly placed punctures, which are somewhat 
obsolete posteriorly, but becoming coarser and very deep at apex. 
Abdomen beneath coarsely and rather densely reticulate, and 
glabrous; last segment acutely rounded at apex, strongly declivous, 
and the surface broadly and deeply concave. Prosternum strongly 
convex, broadly arcuately emarginate in front, with the surface 
strongly reticulate and densely granulose; prosternal process flat, 
sides parallel and only feebly expanded behind the anterior coxal 
cavities; apex truncate, with an obtuse tooth at the middle. Tarsal 
claws simple. 
Length, 5.25 mm. ; width, 2 mm. 
Type locality. — Cuba. 
Type. — Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
This species is described from a single specimen, collected by Jos. 
H. Pazos in Cuba, without giving any definite locality, and which 
was loaned for study by the American Museum of Natural History. 
This specimen has the right elytron discolored. 
At first this was identified as subsinuata Gory, but after carefully 
reading the redescription from the type given by Chevrolat it was 
found to differ from it in a number of details. It does not exactly 
agree with the description given by Gory, which is very short and 
incomplete, and his figure shows a more elongate species, more at- 
tenuate posteriorly, and the pronotum much narrower in front than 
behind. Chevrolat gives the color as plumbeus-black, and places it 
near A. vhidicornis Say and cyanella Castelnau and Gory from the 
United States, but hifoveata is very distinct from any North Ameri- 
can species by having the pronotum broadly and very deeply im- 
pressed at the posterior angles. 
ANTHAXIA SUBSINUATA Gory 
Anthaxia subsinuata, Dejean, Cat. Coloept., 3 ed., 1836, p. 91 (no de- 
scription). — Gory, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1841, pp. 289-290, pi. 48, 
fig. 283. — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. 
et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, Anim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), p. 65; 
(Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 29. — Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 581 (separates p. 157). — Gundlach, Coii- 
tribucion a la Entom. Cuba, vol.. 3, pt. 5, pp. 164-165. 
The following is a translation of Gory's original description : 
Greenish-black; thorax bi-impressed and punctate; elytra granu- 
lose. Length, 21/0 lines ; width, % line. Habitat, Cuba. 
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Greenish-black. Mandibles of a beautiful golden-green. Head 
punctate, with purplish reflection. Thorax with the anterior angles 
declivous, the posterior ones straight, and the surface covered with 
round, rather closely placed punctures, and near the posterior angles 
with a rather large impression, which is smooth at the bottom, 
Scutellum cupreous, triangular, and very finely granulose. Elytra 
granulose, impressed at the base, and rounded at the apex, and with 
the lateral margins and suture elevated behind the middle. Beneath 
the body and legs are punctate, and of a very dark wine color. 
No specimens of this species have been examined. Jacquelin Duval 
(1859) and Gundlach (1891) report it from Cuba, but both authors 
state that they have not seen any specimens of it. From the records 
it seems that the only known specimen of this species is the type in 
the collection of Count Mniszech. Chevrolat (1867) has examined 
the type, from which he gives a redescription, and the following is a 
translation of it : 
Blackish-plumbeus, opaque, beneath shining; head flat, the front 
Tvitli a rather deep and short fovea; eyes green. Thorax transverse; 
front bisinuate, with a rounded median lobe; base nearly straight; 
sides toward middle transversely impressed; elytra granulose, each 
elytron with four foveae in front and middle, apex obtusely rounded. 
Length, 5.5 mm. ; width, 2 mm. Habitat, Cuba. 
Genus MELANOPHILA Eschscholtz 
Melanophila EscHsciior.TZ. Zool, Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. S (reprint, p. 8). — 
Lacokdvire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 47-49. — Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc, vol. 10, 1882, pp. 101-106, pi. 4. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. 
Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 163-166. 
Apatura Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, pp. 1-10, pis. 1-2, 
Addenda p. 2. 
Diana Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Btiprestis. pp. 155- 
157, pi. 38-39. 
TracJujpteris Kirby, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer., vol. 4, 1837, pp. 
158-lGO. 
Oxypterus Kirry, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer., vol. 4, 1837, pp. 160-161. 
Head nearl}^ flat and not narroAved by the insertion of the anten- 
nae; epistoma very short and narrow, broadly arcuately emarginate 
in front; antennal cavities small, round, not concealed under a carina, 
narrowly closed in front and situated a short distance from the inner 
margin of the eyes. Antennae moderately long, subfiliform; first 
joint clavate and somewhat elongate; second short, obconic; third 
slightly longer than the second, and shorter than first, feebly tri- 
angular; the following joints triangular, dentate on the inner side, 
and armed with a terminal poriferous fovea. Eyes elliptical, elon- 
gate, feebly oblique, and only a little closer to each other on the ver- 
tex than at the front. Pronotum Avider tlian long; disk feebly con- 
vex, sometimes grooved at the middle or impressed on the sides ; sides 
angulate or arcuately rounded, with a smooth marginal carina ; base 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 171 
distinctly bisinuate. Scutellum small, rounded or transverse. Elytra 
moderately elongate, subdepressed strongly acuminate posteriorly 
and entirely covering the pygidium; lateral margins dentate; apex 
rounded or armed with strong teeth. Sternal cavity formed by the 
mesosternum and metasternum, the lateral branches of the former 
rather elongate. Mestasternum truncate or feebly lobecl in front. 
Prosternum with the anterior margin truncate, and not lobecl; pro- 
sternal process narrow, expanded behind the coxal cavities, and ac- 
uminate at apex. Posterior coxae feebly dilated internally; anterior 
margin strongly bisinuate; posterior margin nearly straight. Legs, 
feebly robust; anterior femora more robust than posterior ones; 
tibiae normal, slender and cylindrical; tarsi elongate, and slender. 
Body oblong and rather strongly depressed. 
This genus contains a large number of species and has a wide 
distribution, but the species are more numerous in North and South 
America, and Europe. 
The species are variable in form and color and their number 
have been greatly exaggerated by the great variation in the color 
and elytral markings, and also on account of a few species having 
a distribution which covers the entire circumpolar region, these 
conditions have caused much confusion and synonymy. So far, 
only two species have been reported from the West Indies, both of 
which are found in the United States, and may have been introduced 
into the islands in lumber. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Front of head sparsely, irregularly punctate, and strongly shining; elytra 
usually with yellow markings, sometimes entirely black. 
notata (Castelnau and Gory). 
Front of liead densely, coarsely punctate, and opaque ; elytra always uni- 
formly black acuminata (De Geer). 
MELANOPHILA NOTATA (Castelnau and Gory) 
Apatura notata Castelnau and Gory. Men. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, p. 4, pi. 1, 
fig. 5 ; addenda p. 2. 
MelanopMla notata Cheveolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867,. 
p. 580 (separates p. 156). — Gundlach, Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, 
vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 163-164, no. 1705. 
MelanopMla luteosir/nata Mannerheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou. vol. 
10, No. 8, 1837, p. 70. 
Phaeuops luteosignata Ziegler, Proc. Acad Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 2, 1845, p. 
267.— Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 3 ed., 1836, p. 89. 
MelanopMla opaca LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, n. ser., vol. 11, 
1857, p. 213. 
Form broadly elongate and strongly depressed, broadly rounded 
in front and strongly acuminate behind; head and pronotum black. 
172 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM vol. 65 
the former strongly shining; elytra black, with variable orange- 
yellow markings, which are sometimes entirely wanting; beneath 
black, with a strong purplish reflection and very sparsely pubescent. 
Head feebly convex, with the sides feebly obliquely narrowed to 
the vertex ; front and vertex without distinct depressions or carinae ; 
surface coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, the punctures oblong 
and irregularly placed; intervals smooth and shining; epistoma 
broadly arcuately emarginate in front, forming an obtuse tooth on 
each side of the emargination. Pronotum transverse, one and one- 
half times as wide as long, widest just in front of middle, narrower 
behind than in front; sides arcuately rounded in front, more obli- 
quely attenuate posteriorly to the posterior angles, which are rect- 
angular, the marginal line distinct posteriorly; anterior margin 
deeply arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe; 
base bisinuate, with a large broadly rounded median lobe, which is 
feebly elevated near the scutellum; disk with an obsolete longitu- 
dinal median line terminating in a round deep fovea in ^ront of 
scutellum, strongly depressed at base near posterior angles, and 
sometimes with a broad obsolete depression on each side of the median 
line; surface coarsely and obsoletely punctate at middle, the sides 
of punctures forming crenulate lines, which are somewhat concen- 
trical, toward the sides the punctures are larger, deeper and more 
confluent, the sides forming a network of irregular polygonal areas, 
with the bottoms densely granulose. Scutellum small, cordate, with 
the surface depressed and granulose. Elytra wider than pronotum 
at base; sides obtusely angulate at base, broadly rounded at humeri, 
feebly sinuate and nearly parallel to apical third, then strongly 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are acute; lateral margins 
finely serrate posteriorly; humeri not prominent; surface strongly 
broadly dex3ressed at base near humeral angles, and densely, coarsely 
scabrous. Abdomen beneath with posterior margin of segments 
smooth, and the surface coarsely and rather deeply punctate, the 
punctures deeper, open posteriorly, and somewhat confluent on the 
basal segments, becoming more obsolete and forming crenulate lines 
toward the apex; last segment feebly arcuately emarginate at apex, 
the angles not prominent, and with a distinct serrate subapical ridge. 
Metasternum densely and coarsely punctate, with the sides well de- 
fined. Prosternum strongly convex, anterior margin truncate, 
declivous and without a median lobe, the surface rather finely and 
densely punctate; prosternal process (feebly convex, sides narrowly 
margined, surface densely and coarsely punctate, abruptly expanded 
behind the coxal cavities, and with an acute tooth at the apex. First 
joint of posterior tarsi as long as the following two joints united. 
Length, 7-15 mm. ; width, 2.5-5.5 mm. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 173 
This species varies considerably in size and in the arrangement of 
the colored markings on the elytra. There will be no difficulty in 
separating the maculate forms from acuminata De Geer, and the 
specimens which have the elytra entirely black can be separated 
from it by the head being more spareely, irregularly punctate, and 
very strongly shining. There does not seem to be any good external 
characters for separating the sexes, either in this species or in 
acuminata. 
It was described by Castelnau and Gory from North America 
without giving any definite locality. LeConte (1859) described the 
black form from Georgia, under the name of opaca. It is widely dis- 
tributed and its range extends from the Middle States into Mexico. 
Chevi'olat (1867) records it from the Isla de Pinos in the collections 
of Gundlach and Poey. Gundlach (1891) reports it from the same 
locality. Specimens have been seen from the following West Indian 
localities: Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Bahamas, collected on vessel by 
(H. F. Wickham). Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. :" Bahamas " 
without definite locality; black form, Nassau, Bahamas, May-June, 
1904 (W. M, Wheeler). No specimens were found in the Poey col- 
lection in Philadelphia, but there is a single example labeled No. 
1705 in the Gundlach Museum in Habana which has not been 
examined by the writer. 
MELANOPHILA ACUMINATA (De Geer) 
Buprestis acuminata De Geer, Mem. Hist. Ins., vol. 4, 1774, pp. 133-134. 
Buprestis acuta Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat., 13 ed., vol. 1, pt. 4, 1788, p. 1939. 
Buprestis morio Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1792, pp. 210-211. — 
Paykull, Faun. Suec. Ins., vol. 2, 1799, p. 230. 
Buprestis appendiculata Fabrictus, Ent. Syst., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1792, p. 210. — 
EscHscHOLTZ, Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9. 
Phaenops appendiculata Dejean, Cat. Coleop., 3 ed., 1836, p. 89. 
Apatura appendiculata Castelnau and Gory, vol. 2, 1838, pp. 8-9, pi. 2, 
fig. 14; addenda, pp. 2 and 3. 
Anthaana pecchioUi Castelnau and Goby, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1839, pp. 
33-34, pi. 8, fig. 46. 
Bup7-estis atropurpureus Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 3, 1823, 
p. 160. 
Oxypteris appendiculata Kirby, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer., vol. 4, 1837, 
pp. 160-161. 
Melanophila immaculata Mannerheim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 
10, no. 8, 1837, p. 70. 
Buprestis lonyipes Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. 3, 1823, p. 164. 
Melanophila longipes Manne21heim, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 
no. 8, p. 7. — Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 
p. 581 (separates p. 157). — Gundlach, Contribucion a la Entom. Cuba, 
vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 164, no. 1853. 
Form broadly elongate and strongly depressed, broadly rounded in 
front and strongly acuminate behind, uniformly black above and 
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beneath, feebly shining, and rarely with a metallic reflection ; beneath 
sparsely pubescent. 
Head flat or feebly convex, with the sides obliquely narrowed to 
the vertex; front and vertex without impressions or carinae; surface 
densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow, oblong, con- 
fluent, irregular in shape, and with the bottoms coarsely, densely 
granulose; eyes moderately large, feebly convex, and slightly closer 
together on the vertex than at bottom; epistoma broadly arcuately 
emarginate in front, forming an obtuse tooth on each side of the 
emargination. Pronotum transverse, nearly one and one-half times 
as wide as long, Avidest at apical third, slightly narrower behind than 
in front; sides broadly rounded at apical third, then obliquely at- 
tenuate to the posterior angles, which are rectangular, the marginal 
line distinct posterior^; anterior margin deeply arcuately emargi- 
nate, with a distinct angulated lobe at middle; base bisinuate, with 
the median lobe large, broadly rounded, and strongly elevated near 
the scutellum ; disk with a broad median longitudinal groove, feebly 
impressed anteriorly, obsolete at middle, and terminating in a round 
deep puncture in front of scutellum, sometimes with an obsolete de- 
pression on each side of the median line; surface densely, coarsely 
granulose at middle, with a few obsolete punctures intermixed, at 
the sides the punctures are shallow, coarser, and confluent, the sides 
forming a network of irregular polygonal areas, the bottoms of 
which are densely granulose. Scutellum small, and the surface 
coarsely and densely granulose. Elytra wider than pronotum at 
base; sides obtusely angulate at base, broadly rounded at humeri, 
nearly parallel to apical third, then strongly, acurately attenuate to 
the tips, which are very acute; lateral margins finely serrate poste- 
riorly; humeri not prominent; surface with a broad deep depression 
between the base and humeri, and densely, coarsely scabrous. Ab- 
domen beneath with posterior margin of segment smooth, and the 
surface coarsely but not deeply punctate, the punctures coarser, and 
open posteriorly on the basal segments, becoming merely transverse 
crenulate lines toward the sides and apex; last segment broadly 
arcuately emarginate at apex, the angles acute but not prominent, 
and with an obsolete serrate subapical ridge. Metasternum more 
densely punctured than abdomen, the punctures round, with the 
sides well defined. Presternum strongly convex, the anterior margin 
nearly truncate, and the surface coarsely and deeply punctate an- 
teriorly, becoming transversely rugose posteriorly; prosternal proc- 
ess feebly convex, sides narrowly margined, the surface very coarsely 
punctate, abruptly expanded behind the coxal cavities and with an 
acute tooth at apex. First joint of the posterior tarsi nearW as long 
as the following three joints united. 
Length, 7,5-11 mm.; width, 3-4.5 mm. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 175 
This is a very common circumpolar species found throughout the 
greater part of North America, Europe, and Siberia. It is closely 
allied to notata Castelnau and Gory, but can always be distinguished 
from that species by the head being very denselj^ punctured, strongly 
opaque, and never shining as in notata^ and the elytra is never 
ornated with yellow markings. It is reported as living in various 
species of spruce, pine, and fir. 
It was first described by De Geer from an unknown locality, and 
later from Europe under a number of different names by various 
authors. Eschscholtz (1829) places appendiculata Fabricius in his 
new genus Melanofhila. Say (1823) described the same species 
from Pennsylvania and the Western States under the name of 
longipes^ and this name has been used in recording the species from 
the West Indies. 
Chevrolat (1867) records the species from Cuba, in the collections 
of Gundlach and Poey. Gundlach (1891) records collecting it at 
" Brazo del Cauto," Santiago de Cuba. 
Specimens have been examined from the following West Indian 
localities. Coll. S. C. Brimer: Camaguey, Cuba, Nov. 11. 1921 
(Angelica Prieto). Coll. British Mus. : Two specimens labeled 
"Haiti, Saunders 74-18." This species is not represented in the 
Poey collection in Philadelphia, but there is a single example, 
labeled No. 1053, in the Gundlach Museum in Habana. which has 
not been examined by the writer. 
Genus TETRAGONOSCHEMA Thomson 
Tetragonoscliema Thomson, Archiv. Entom., vol. 1, 1857, p. 116. — Keere- 
MANs, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3, 1903, pp. 168-169. 
Pachypyga Steinheil, Atti. See. Ent. Ital., vol. 5, 1872, p. 564. 
Head rectangular, front depressed at middle and not narrowed by 
the insertion of the antennae; epistoma narrow, short, and feebly 
emarginate at the middle; antennal cavities rather large, rounded, 
not concealed under a carina, and situated rather close to the inner 
margin of the eyes. Antennae moderately long; first joint thick and 
clavate; second and third short, obconic, and equal to each other in 
length; fourth a little longer and triangular; following joints rather 
robust, triangular, dentate on the inner side and armed with a 
terminal poriferous fovea. Eyes large, elliptical, and parallel. 
Pronotum wider than long, bisinuate in front, with the median lobe 
angulate; sides more or less rounded, with the posterior angles 
straight or obtuse; base distinctly sinuate. Scutellum triangular. 
Elytra short, sinuate, subparallel, truncate at the base, broadly and 
separately rounded at apex, and not covering the pygidium, which is 
concave. Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and meta- 
sternum. the lateral branches of the former subcontiguous. Meta- 
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sternum truncate in front and grooved at the middle. Prosternum 
with the anterior margin feebly emarginate in front; prosternal 
process flat, and acuminate at apex. Posterior coxae dilated in- 
ternally; anterior margin feebly sinuate; posterior margin oblique. 
Legs feebly robust ; femora and tibiae normal ; tarsi moderately long. 
Abdomen short and convex; the last segment in the male with a 
transverse carina, and sinuate at the middle, the female with a large 
transverse depression. Body flat, short, and rectangular. 
This genus was erected by Thomson (1857) for chrysomelina from 
Haiti, which is a synonym of quadrata Buquet. Steinheil (1872) 
erected the genus Pachypyga for a new species undata from the Argen- 
tine Republic, which is supposed to be congeneric with quadrata 
Buquet. So far, only six species have been described in this genus, 
four from South America, one from Guatemala, and the other one 
from Haiti. 
TETRAGONOSCHEMA QUADRATA (Buquet) 
Anthaxia quadrata Buquei, Rev. Zool., 1841, pp. 194-195. 
Tetragonoscliema chrysomelina Thomson, Archiv. Entom., vol. 1, 1857, 
p. 116, pi. 10, fig. 2. 
The following is a translation of Buquet's original description : 
Cyaneous, shining; elytra uneven and marked with three excava- 
tions ; antennae, legs and abdomen greenish-bronzy. Length, 4 mm. ; 
width, 2.75 mm. 
Brilliant dark blue above. Head wide, finely reticulate and nearly 
covered with a very feeble network, and with a distinctly marked 
broad longitudinal groove in the middle. Eyes rather large and of 
a brownish color. Antennae brilliant green. Thorax very narrow 
at base, convex, nearly two times as wide as the head at the extrem- 
ity, with a transverse groove, and bordered at the lower part by 
a brilliant, smooth, narrow line, which very distinctly detaches it 
from the elytra. Scutellum triangular, and longer than wide. 
Elytra nearly as wide as long, flat, parallel, uneven, and cut off 
squarely at base, rounded at the apex, and each elytron with three 
deep transverse impressions; the first near the scutellum, and inter- 
rupted in the middle by a longitudinal costa; the second a little 
behind the first ; and the third situated near the apex ; these are cov- 
ered with a very fine reticulation, and bordered besides in their entire 
length. Body beneath finely punctate, and also the legs, which are 
a brilliant green. It has been given to me by Mr. Petit de la Saus- 
saye, as having been found in Santo Domingo. 
The species was first described by Buquet (1841) from Santo 
Domingo. Thomson (1857) described the same species under the 
name chrysomeWna from Haiti, for which he erected the new genus 
Tetragonoschema. The species seems to be rare in collections, as no 
specimens have been available for examination, and Dr. C. J. Gahan 
states that the species is not represented in the British Museum 
collection. 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 177 
Genus TRACHYS Fabricius =° 
Trachys Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, 1801, p. 218-220. — Eschscholtz, 
Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint, p. 8). — Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
France, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 311-312, pi. 12, fig. 30.— Castei-nau and 
Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1840, pp. 1-11, pis. 1-2. — Lacordaire, Gen. 
Col., vol. 4, 1857, p. 88. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, 
fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 307-314. 
Head rather convex, wide, and more or less grooved or concave, 
and strongly narrowed by the antennal cavities; epistoma con- 
stricted posteriorly by the antennal cavities, and emarginate in 
front; antennal cavities rather large, oblique, rounded behind, pro- 
longed into a groove in front, and situated a short distance from 
the eyes. Antennae 11- jointed, the basal joints inserted in a groove 
between the eyes and epistoma, the groove not prolonged on the 
prosternum, the apical joints free while in repose; first and second 
joints thick; third to sixth slender, cylindrical; the following joints 
triangular, dentate on the inner margin, and armed with terminal 
poriferous foveae. Eyes large, oval, sometimes projecting, and more 
widely separated on occiput than in front. Pronotum much wider 
than long, narrower in front than behind ; anterior margin arcuately 
emarginate, with the apical angles acute ; sides narrowed anteriorly ; 
base strongly bisinuate. Scutellum very small or invisible. Elytra 
broad, attenuate posteriorly, and rounded at apex; humeri promi- 
nent and sometimes extending into a longitudinal carina along the 
lateral margin and at some distance from it. Sternal cavity formed 
by the mesosternum and metasternum, the lateral branches of the 
former short and very indistinct. Metasternum feebly, arcuately 
emarginate in front. Prosternum short, wide, rounded at apex, 
and the anterior margin armed with a more or less broad lobe. 
Middle coxae a little more widely separated than the anterior ones; 
posterior ones usually dilated externally. Legs slightly robust and 
not lodged in depressions beneath; femora rather thick; tibiae 
slender, straight or feebly arcuate, and in repose not concealed in 
grooves in the femora; tarsi very short, the joints enlarged and 
lobed, the first joint longer than the following ; tarsal claws strongly 
toothed at base. Body short, suboval, or pentagonal. 
This genus contains a large number of very small leaf-mining 
forms. It is distributed throughout the entire world with the ex- 
ception of the Nearctic Region. The species of the genus reach their 
highest development in the Indo-Malaysian Eegion, but a few spe- 
^ Since submitting this article for publication there has appeared an article by Dr 
Jan Obenberger (Sbomlk Entomologick^ho OddglenI NSrodnlho Musea v Praze, vol. 1. 
1923, p. 41), in which he places Litis guadeloupensis Fleutiaux and Sall6 in his new 
genus Neotrachys. 
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cies have been described from America, including one from the 
Guadeloupe Islands. The American species are not entirely con- 
generic with the species from Malaysia and probably should form 
a new genus, but until more material is available for study it is ad- 
visable to retain them in the present genus. 
TRACHYS GUADELOUPENSIS (Fleutiaux and Salle) 
Lius gtiadeloupeiisis Fleutiaux and Sai.le, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, 
vol. 9, 1890, pp. 404-405 (separates pp. 54-55). 
Trachi/s chevrolati KERUE^rAxs, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 65, 1896, pp. 
26-27. 
Elongate, moderately convex, broadly rounded in front, attenuate 
posteriorly, and slightly narrower behind than in front, glabrous and 
strongly shining, uniformly aeneous above; beneath piceous, with a 
slightly aeneous tinge. 
Head broad, nearly flat, feebly longitudinally impressed on the 
front, deeply transversely impressed behind the epistoma, with a 
round deeper impression behind the antennal cavities; surface 
sparsely and irregularly punctate, the punctures shallow and rather 
coarse on the occiput, but becoming nearly obsolete toward the 
epistoma; intervals smooth; epistoma wide between the antennal 
cavities (about three times as wide as the cavities), the anterior mar- 
gin deeply, arcuately emarginate and strongly elevated; antennae 
rather short and entirely piceous. Pronotum slightly convex, two 
and one-half times as wide as long at middle, distinctly narrower 
in front than behind, and widest at base; sides obliquely arcuate 
from base to anterior angles and narrowly margined ; anterior an- 
gles acute; posterior angles nearly rectangular and slightly project- 
ing; anterior margin broadly arcuately emarginate, with an obsolete 
lobe at middle ; base transversely truncate to near middle of el^ytron, 
then feebly sinuate and turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, 
in front of which it is broadly rounded ; surface narrowly impressed 
along lateral margin, and with a broad, shallow impression near the 
posterior angles; punctuation similar to that on the head. Scutel- 
lum very small and triangular. Elytra moderately convex, dis- 
tinctly wider than pronotum at base; humeral angles broadly 
rounded ; sides feebly obliquely attenuate to behind the middle, then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly narrowly 
rounded, with the lateral margin entire ; each elytron with a broad, 
shallow impression at base, and a more elongate one behind the 
humerus close to the lateral margin, causing an obsolete elevation 
near the middle at lateral margin, which is less elevated than the 
humerus; surface without lateral carina, rather densely and irregu- 
larly punctate, the punctures coarse and stelliform at base, becom- 
ing more obsolete at the apex; intervals smooth. Abdomen beneath 
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coarsely and sparsely punctate, the punctures very shallow, ocellate, 
oval at middle, but becoming more elongate at the sides of first 
segment, and sparsely clothed with a few inconspicuous hairs ; inter- 
vals finely and densely granulose; last segment broadly rounded at 
apex. Prosternum sparsely, coarsely punctate; anterior margin 
broadly rounded; prosternal process broad, slightly expanded be- 
hind the coxal cavities, and broadly rounded at apex. 
Length, 2.4 mm.; width, .75 mm. 
This species was described and placed in the genus Lius by Fleu- 
tiaux and Salle from material collected by Delauney during August 
at Camp Jacobs, in the southern part of Guadeloupe. Kerremans 
(1896) described Trachys chcvrolati from Guadeloupe from mate- 
rial in the Chevrolat collection. I have carefully compared the de- 
scriptions of Lius guadeloupensis and Trachys chevrolati and find 
no differences, and since L. guadeloupensis was unknown to Kerre- 
mans at the time he described T. chevrolati^ I have placed his species 
iis a synonym of guadeloupensis. 
The above description was made from eight specimens collected 
at Gourbeyre, which is near the type locality in Guadeloupe, and 
Ivindly loaned to me by the American Museum of Natural History. 
(Two of these specimens have been donated to the United States 
National Museum collection.) These specimens agree very well with 
the description given by Fleutiaux and Salle for this species, but 
they belong to the genus Trachys, which can be easily distinguished 
from the genus Lius by the absence of grooves on the prosternum 
ior the reception of the antenna while in repose. 
Genus BRACHYS Solier 
Brachys Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 312-313.— 
Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 86-87. — Dejel
, Cat. Coleopt.. 
2 ed., 1833, p. 83.— Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1840, pp. 
1-9.— Gory, Mon. Bupr., Suppl., vol. 4, 1841, pp. 329-349.— LeContk. 
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., vol. 11, 1859, pp. 250-253. — Kerre- 
iiANs, Wytsman's Gen. Insectoruni, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 324-327. 
Head moderately large, front grooved; epistoma bisinuate in 
front, and strongly narrowed by the antennal cavities; antennal 
cavities large, oblique, rounded behind, and prolonged into a groove 
in front, and situated some distance from the eyes. Antennae 11- 
jointed; first joint thick and obconic; second cylindrical, nearly as 
long and thick as the first; third and fourth subequal in length, 
more slender and shorter than the second; the following joints 
dentate on the inner side, and armed with terminal poriferous fovae. 
Eyes rather large, oval, subparallel, and sometimes a little more 
widely separated on vertex than at front. Pronotum trapeziform, 
wider than long; disk convex, depressed at sides and base; sides 
180 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAX. MUSEUM vul. 65 
obliquely narrowed anteriorly; anterior margin nearly straight; 
base strongly bisinuate, with a distinct median lobe. Scutellum 
large, triangular, and wider than long. Elytra broad and short, 
abruptly attentuate behind; humeri prominent, and often ex- 
tending into a longitudinal carina along the lateral margin, the 
disk sometimes with distinct longitudinal carinae. Sternal cavity 
formed by the mesosternum and metasternum, the lateral branches 
of the former very short, transverse, and compressed upon the side 
or invisible. Metasternum broadly emarginate in front. Pro- 
sternum truncate in front, with the sides deeply grooved near the 
margin for the reception of the antennae; prosternal process with a 
large, deep, elongate fovea at middle. Middle coxae a little more 
widely separated than anterior ones ; posterior pairs are but slightly 
dilated internally, narrowest at middle, and broader externally. 
Legs very contractile, and while in repose are lodged in depressions 
beneath ; femora feebly swollen, the anterior and middle pairs arcu- 
late at apex; tibiae slender and cylindrical, usually straight, but in 
a few cases arcuate; tarsi very short; tarsal claws toothed at base. 
Body usually broad and ovate, attentuate in front and acuminate 
behind. 
The species of this genus are very numerous and their distribution 
heretofore has been confined to North, Central, and South America. 
The following new species extends the distribution to the West 
Indies. The adults are short, ovate and of various metallic colors, 
the dorsal parts usually ornated with pubescent designs, sometimes 
glabrous and occasionally with tufts of erect hairs, and are found 
during the warmer part of the day on flowers, or feeding on the 
foliage. The larvae are miners in the leaves of various trees and 
plants. 
BRACHYS THOMAE. new species 
Broadly cuneiform, distinctly longer than wide, broadly rounded 
in front, more acuminate posteriorly, and narrower behind than in 
front, shining, piceous, with feeble purplish and cupreous reflections, 
and ornated with indistinct irregailar pubescent designs; beneath 
uniformly piceous. 
Head feebly convex, longitudinally grooved from occiput to epis- 
toma, the groove very board and deep on the front, but becoming 
narrower and not as deeply impressed on the occiput, when viewed 
from above the front is deeply emarginate, and each side forming a 
semicircle with the eyes; surface densely, finely granulose, and 
sparsely clothed on the vertex, along the eyes, and behind the epis- 
toma with a few recumbent cinereous hairs; epistoma narrow be- 
tween the antennal cavities (about one-half as wide as the cavities), 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 181 
feebly concave and without transverse carina in front. Pronotum 
moderately convex, two times as wide as long at the middle, distinctly 
narrower in front than behind, widest at base; sides strongly 
arcuately attenuate from base to anterior angles; anterior margin 
truncate, without a median lobe; base transversely truncate to 
middle of elytron, then turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, 
in front of which it is feebly arcuately emarginate; posterior angles 
nearly rectangular, surface broadly depressed along the sides, the 
depression extending obliquely from the anterior angles to the base 
at middle of elytron, then transversely along the base, causing the 
anterior median part of the disk to be regularly convex, each side 
with a short straight indistinct lateral carina, the surface is also 
densely, finely granulose, with numerous shallow ocellate punctures 
in the depressed areas, and sparsely clothed with moderately 
long recumbent cinereous hairs. Scutellum obsoletely granulose 
broadly triangular, with the anterior margin feebly rounded. Elytra 
not quite as wide as pronotum at base, widest just behind the 
humeral angles, which are obtusely angulated ; sides strongly sinuate 
at basal third, then strongly obliquely attentuate to the tips, which 
are conjointly, broadly rounded, with the lateral margins entire; 
humeri prominent; each elytron with a moderately deep broad de- 
pression at the base, and an elongate one behind the humerus be- 
tween the lateral carina and lateral margin, and with a strongly 
elevated, sinuate smooth lateral carina extending from the humeral 
angle to near the apex; the surface with two fine longitudinal lines 
of fulvous hairs extending from the base to near the middle, and 
sparsely clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs ( with a few fulvous 
ones intermixed), the cinereous pubescence tending to form obsolete 
fasciae at middle and apical fifth; surface finely, sparsely punc- 
tate, with a longitudinal row of larger punctures on each side of 
the longitudinal lines of hairs; intervals obsoletely rugose on basal 
part, but becoming smoother toward apex. Abdomen beneath 
strongly convex, sparsely and ocellate-punctate, the punctures large, 
obsolete, open on the one side, and from each one arises a short recum- 
bent cinereous hair, the hairs more conspicuous toward the sides; 
intervals finely and densely granulose; last segment subtruncate 
at apex, with the margin very finely dentate. Front and middle 
tibiae strongly arcuate, the latter with a distinct tooth at the apex 
(hind tibiae missing). 
Length, 3 mm.; width, 1.4 mm. 
Tyfe locality. — La Belle, St. Thomas, West Indies. 
Type. — Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 
Described from a unique specimen received from the Carnegie 
Museum. 
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In general form this species resembles Brachys hellus Fisher from 
Panama, but can be easily distinguished from that species by the 
color being entirely different, and the pronotum having distinct 
lateral carinae. 
Genus TAPHROCERUS Solier 
Taphrocents Soliee, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 314- 
315. — Kereemans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, 
pp. 327-328. 
Head large, moderately convex and more or less grooved on front ; 
epistoma broadly emarginate in front, strongly narrowed by the 
antennal cavities, and separated from the front by a transverse 
carina; antennal cavities large, oblique, rounded behind, prolonged 
into a groove in front, and situated at some distance from the eyes. 
Antennae rather long, and while in repose inserted in a groove in 
the presternum ; first joint robust, elongate and somewhat arcuate; 
second robust, slightly shorter than the first; third and fourth 
and sometimes the fifth elongate, longer and more slender than the 
second; following joints triangular, dentate on the inner margin, 
and armed with terminal poriferous foveae. Eyes moderately large, 
oval, not touching the pronotum, sometimes projecting, and parallel 
or feebly oblique on the inner margin. Pronotum wider than long; 
disk sometimes very uneven, with or without lateral carina ; anterior 
margin usually truncate; sides more or less sinuate; base strongly 
bisinuate, with a distinct median lobe, which is more or less emargi- 
nate. Scutellum triangular, the anterior margin sometimes rounded, 
and apex rather acute. Elytra rather elongate and moderately con- 
vex, strongly acuminate posteriorly, sometimes with a distinct lateral 
carina, and the surface glabrous or pubescent. Sternal cavity 
formed by the mesosternum and metasternum, the lateral branches 
of the former very small. Metasternum rather deeply and angularly 
emarginate in front. Prosternum broadly rounded in front; pro- 
sternal process strongly constricted by the coxal cavities, behind 
which it is dilated, with the apex acute. Middle coxae a little more 
widely separated than the anterior ones; posterior pair very short, 
concave, and feebly dilated internally. Legs rather robust and not 
lodged in depressions beneath; anterior and middle femora feebly 
swollen, and arcuate at apex, the posterior pair more slender and 
nearly straight; anterior and middle tibiae cylindrical and more 
or less arcuate, the posterior ones less arcuate; tarsi rather longer 
than usual for this group ; tarsal claws dentate. Body elongate and 
broadly agriliform. 
This genus contains about 50 described species, which are confined 
in their distribution to the Western Hemisphere. So far seven 
species have been found in the West Indies, of which five are de- 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 183 
scribed as new in the present paper. The species are elongate, 
broadly agriliform, and usually of a piceous or aeneous color. They 
are closely allied to each other and veiy difficult to describe in such 
a way that they can be easily recognized, but the species from the 
West Indies can be separated by the characters given in the follow- 
ing table : 
KEY TO THE SPECIES 
1. Surface above unicolored 2. 
Surface above bicolored 6. 
2. Elytra with lateral carina 3. 
Elytra without lateral carina 4. 
3. Surface above aeneous laesicoUis Chevrolat. 
Surface above piceous tenuis Fisher. 
4. Pronotum widest at base - subglaber Fisher. 
Pronotum widest in front of base 5. 
5. Pronotum widest at apical third, then obliquely attenuate to posterior 
angles ; head transversely truncate in front when view from above ; color 
above aeneo-cupreous aeneocupreus Fisher. 
Pronotum widest at basal third, where it is abruptly constricted and then 
parallel to the posterior angles ; head broadly rounded in front when 
viewed from above; color above aeneo-piceous timidus Chevrolat. 
6. Sides of pronotum strongly constricted at base, which is broadly depressed 
in front of scutellum ; head and anterior part of pronotum cupreous, 
elytra dark shining green at base, becoming bronzy and strongly opaque 
on apical two-thirds elegans Fisher. 
Sides of pronotum arcuately rounded ; base not depressed in front of 
scutellum ; head and pronotum dark aeneous, elytra piceous, shining. 
aeneocollis Fisher. 
TAPHROCERUS LAESICOLLIS Chevrolat 
Taphrocerus laesicoUis Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, p. 1867, p. 587; (separate p. 163). — Gundlach, Contribucion k 
la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, pp. 170-171. 
The following is a translation of Chevrolat's original description : 
Allied to Brachys gentilis Dejean and alboguttatus Gory ; aeneous, 
somewhat shining, vaguely and deeply punctate: head punctate, 
anteriorly deeply sulcata and posteriorly more narrowly sulcate ; eyes 
black with a golden margin ; thorax transverse, vaguely punctata, in 
front straight, externally margined, and from there up to the base 
sulcate, on the sides obliquely bicarinate (the carina externally 
excavated), declivous anteriorly, nearly straight toward base, some- 
times very freely arcuate externally and subemarginate at middle, 
with two deep subquadrate median sulci, transversely limited on the 
disk; scutellum subrotund and shining; elytra elongate, toward the 
base feebly wider, and then gradually attenuate, separately obtusely 
rounded, at basal margin, suture and scutellum margined, humeral 
callosity elevated and produced into a longitudinal costa. minutely 
granulose, punctate-striate, the sutural stria inversely sulcate, iho^ 
striae beyond middle obsolete, and the punctures in the striae irregu- 
lar, posteriorly corinaceous and more shining; body beneath and 
legs dark aeneous. Length, 3.75 mm.; width, 1 mm. Habitat, Cu])a. 
Collections of Gundlach and Poey. 
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Gundlach (1891) states that: "Chevrolat records receiving a speci- 
men from me but the species is not represented in my collection." 
The species is not represented in either the Poey collection in Phila- 
delphia nor the Gundlach Museum in Habana, so I have been unable 
to examine any specimens of this species, and it is included in the 
key from the characters given in the original description. 
This species can be separated from all the described West Indian 
species of this genus, with the exception of tenuis Fisher, by the 
elytra having a distinct lateral carina, extending from the humeri 
backward for a short distance. From tenuis it can be separated 
by the color, which is recorded as aeneous, while in that Species it 
is entirely piceous, with only a slight aeneous tinge when viewed in 
certain lights. 
TAPHROCERUS TENUIS, new species 
Form elongate, subcylindrical, strongly attenuate posteriorly, 
moderately convex above, shining, uniformly piceous above, with a 
very feeble aeneous tinge in certain lights, and without pubescent 
spots ; beneath of the same color as above. 
Head slightly narrower than pronotum at base, and when viewed 
from above is transversely truncate in front, with a longitudinal 
groove extending from the epistoma to the occiput, the groove form- 
ing an elongated triangular space behind the epistoma, and becoming 
obsolete on the occiput; front wide, with the sides more widely 
separated above than in front, and feebly convex between the eyes; 
surface glabrous, finely and obsoletely reticulate, with a few shallow, 
irregularly j^laced punctures intermixed ; eyes oval, equally rounded 
at both ends, strongly convex, and slightly projecting; epistoma 
feebly elevated, and rather narrowly and deeply arcuately emar- 
ginate in front. Pronotum moderately convex, two times as wide 
as long, apex and base about equal in width, widest at about the 
basal third; sides when viewed from above are obliquely dilated to 
basal third, then abruptly narrowed and feebly arcuately emargin- 
ated to the posterior angles, which are nearly rectangular; anterior 
margin nearly truncate; base truncate to middle of elytron, then 
turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in front of which it 
is arcuately emarginate; surface with a shallow, broad transverse 
depression along anterior margin, connected on each side to a broad 
depression at lateral margin, which extends obliquely backward to 
the base, but not transversely along base in front of scutellum, caus- 
ing the surface near posterior angles to be feebly gibbose, surface 
with a few scattered ocellate punctures, from the center of which 
arises a short inconspicuous cinereous hair; intervals finely and 
densely reticulate. Scutellum triangular, rounded in front, with 
the surface nearly smooth. Elytra moderately convex, slightly 
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wider than pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely angulated; 
sides feebly arcuately concave from the humeral angles to middle, 
where they are broadly rounded and about equal in width to the 
base, then strongly obliquely attenuate to the tips, which are sepa- 
rately rounded and feebly serrulate; humeri well developed; each 
elytron with a broad and rather deep basal depression, and a dis- 
tinct lateral carina extending from the humeri to about basal third ; 
surface with indistinct rows of shallow, feebly defined punctures, 
which are obsoletely granulose at the bottom, the punctures rather 
large at base, but becoming very fine and indistinct toward the 
apex; intervals somewhat rugose at base, but nearly smooth at the 
apical region, and very sparsely clothed with a few short incon- 
spicuous hairs. Abdomen beneath moderately convex, sparsely and 
rather obsoletely punctate, the punctures very shallow, oblong, and 
open on the one side, each puncture bearing a short recumbent 
cinereous hair; intervals densely and obsoletely reticulate; last seg- 
ment broadly rounded at apex, with the apical groove deep, and 
following the outline of the lateral margin, but not extending to it. 
Prosternum rather coarsely punctate. Front and middle tibiae mod- 
erately arcuate. 
Length, 3.2 mm. ; width 1 mm. 
Tyye locality. — Trinidad, West Indies. 
Type and paraty pes. —Csit. No. 26815, U.S.N.M. 
Described from five specimens collected by August Busck, June 
12 and 21. 
This species can be easily distinguished from all the other species 
of this genus described from the West Indies (except laesicollis 
Chevrolat), by the elytra having a distinct lateral carina. From 
laesicoUis it can be separated by the color, which is piceous, and not 
aeneous, as in that species. 
TAPHROCERUS SUBGLABER. new species 
Form rather broadly elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, mod- 
erately convex above; shining, uniformly piceous, with a strong 
aenous or olivaceous tinge, and without pubescent spots; beneath 
slightly more aeneous than above. 
Head considerably narrower than pronotum at base, and when 
viewed from above is transversely truncate in front, with a feeble 
emargination at middle, with a longitudinal groove extending from 
the occiput to epistoma, the groove rather broadly and deeply im- 
pressed on the front, but becoming obsolete on the occiput; front 
wide, with the sides more widely separated above than in front, and 
feebly convex between the eyes; surface nearly smooth, with a few 
very shallow, irregularly placed punctures, and very sparsely clothed 
with short, inconspicuous, cinerous hairs; eyes large, oval, about 
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equally rounded at both ends, strongly convex and slightly project- 
ing; epistoma flat and rather narrowly and deeply arcuately emargi- 
nate in front. Pronotum moderately convex, two times as wide as 
long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base; sides 
when viewed from above are parallel at apical angles, then obliquely 
dilated to the base ; anterior margin feebly arcuate ; base nearly trans- 
versely truncate to middle of elytron, then turning obliquely back- 
ward to the scutellum, in front of which it is feebly arcuately emar- 
ginate; surface with a narrow transverse depression along the ante- 
rior margin, connected at each side to a broad concave depression ac 
the lateral margin, which extends obliquely backward and then 
transversely along base, these depressions cause the surface to be 
broadly transversely elevated on the disk anteriorly, sparsely irregu- 
lar ocellate-punctate, the punctures more widely separated on the 
disk, and from the center of each arises a short inconspicuous cine- 
reous hair: intervals nearly smooth (obsoletely reticulate under a 
high-power lens). Scutellum triangular, feebly rounded in fronc, 
with the surface finely and obsoletely reticulate. Elytra moderately 
convex, not quite as wide as pronotum at base; humeral angles ob- 
tusely angulated ; sides strongly arcuately concave from the humeral 
angles to middle, where they are broadly rounded and wider than at 
base, then strongly obliquely attenuate to the tips, w^hich are con- 
jointly broadly rounded and obsoletely serrulate ; humeri well devel- 
oped ; each elytron with a deep, broad basal depression, and without a 
lateral carina; surface with distinct rows of shallow, feebly defined 
punctures, which are larger at the base but gradually becoming 
smaller toward the apex, where they are nearly obsolete, the bottom 
of each puncture is obsoletely granulose, with a short inconspicuous 
cinerous hair arising from the center; intervals smooth on disk, be- 
coming feebly rugose at the sides, especially in the humeral regions. 
Abdomen beneath strongly convex, sparsely and rather obsoletely 
punctate, the punctures very shallow, rounded, open on the one side, 
larger and more closely placed on the first segment, but becoming- 
very small on the last one, each puncture bearing a short recumbent 
cinerous hair ; intervals finely and obsoletely reticulate ; last segment 
broadly rounded at apex, with the apical groove following the outline 
of the lateral margin, but not extending to it. Prosternum densely 
and finely reticulate-punctate. Front and middle tibiae moderately 
arcuate. 
Length, 3.5 mm.; width, 1.35 mm. 
Ty'pe locality. — Montserratt, Trinidad, West Indies. 
Type and paraty pes. —Cdii. No. 26816, U.S.N.M. 
Described from four specimens collected by August Busck, two of 
which were collected at the type locality, June 28 and 29, one at Port 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 187 
of Spain, Trinidad, June 19, and the other one simply labeled 
" Trinidad, W. I. Jime." 
This species can be distinguished from all the other species of this 
genus described from the West Indies by the shape of the pronotum, 
which is widest at the base and slightly wider than the base of the 
elytra. It resembles somewhat aeneocolUs Fisher and tenuis Fisher, 
but it is much broader in proportion to its length than either of these 
two species. 
TAPHROCERUS ELEGANS, new species 
Male. — Elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, moderately con- 
vex and strongly flattened above; head with the occiput and vertex 
cupreous, front green; pronotum cupreous anteriorly, becoming oli- 
vaceous toward the base ; scutellum dark green ; elytra dark shining 
green at base, becoming a dull bronzy color and strongly opaque on 
the apical two-thirds, and without pubescent spots; beneath piceous 
with a strong aenous tinge. 
Head nearly as wide as pronotum at base, and when viewed from 
above is transversely truncate in front, with a feeble emargination 
at the middle; and broadly flattened behind the epistoma, causing 
two obsolete gibbosities on the front, with a longitudinal groove ex- 
tending from the occiput to the transverse flattened area behind the 
epistoma, the groove obsolete on the occiput, but becoming deeper 
and broader on the front, which is wide, with the sides more widely 
separated above than in front, and nearly flat between the eyes; 
surface finely and densely granulose, with a few moderately deep 
punctures intermixed, the punctures becoming denser and more con- 
fused behind the epistoma, where the surface is also sparsely clothed 
with short cincereous hairs; eyes large, oval, about equally rounded 
at both ends, strongly convex and feebly projecting; epistoma flat, 
and deeply, arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum moderately 
convex, nearly two times as wide as long, apex and base about equal 
in width, widest at about the basal third; sides when viewed from 
above are obliquely dilated to the basal third, then abruptly nar- 
rowed, and arcuately emarginate to the posterior angles, which are 
rather obtuse; anterior margin broadly arcuate; base transversely 
truncate to middle of elytron, then turning obliquely backward to 
the scutellum, in front of which it is feebly, arcuately emarginate: 
surface with a narrow transverse depression along the anterior mar- 
gin, connected at each side to a broad concave depression along the 
lateral margins, which extends to the posterior angles and then trans- 
versely along the base, these depressions causing the surface to be 
broadly gibbous on the disk, sparsely, irregularly ocellate-punctate, 
the punctures nearly obsolete on the disk, but becoming denser and 
larger in the depressed areas, sparsely clothed with a few incon- 
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spicuous, recumbent, cinereous hairs; intervals finely and very 
densely granulose. Scutellum triangular, feebly rounded in fronty 
with the surface obsoletely granulose. Elytra moderately convex, 
strongly flattened on top, distinctly wider than pronotum at base; 
humeral angles obtusely angulated ; sides strongly arcuately concave 
from the humeral angles to the middle, where they are broadly 
rounded and slightly wider than at base, then rather strongly, ob- 
liquely attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded, 
and obsoletely serrulate ; humeri well developed ; each elytron with a 
deep, rather broad basal depression and without a lateral carina; 
surface with distinct rows of punctures, which are large and rather 
deep at the base, but gradually becoming smaller toward the apex, 
where they are nearly obsolete, sparsely clothed with a few very 
short, inconspicuous cinereous hairs, which tend to form longitudinal 
rows, and are only noticeable on the opaque area ; intervals finely and 
densely granulose, except for a transverse area at apical third, where 
the surface is more shining, the apical two-thirds so densely granu- 
lose that the surface is strongly opaque. Abdomen beneath strongly 
convex, sparsely and rather coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow, 
oblong, and open on the one side, each puncture bearing a very short 
recumbent cinereous hair ; intervals densely and obsoletely reticulate ; 
last segment broadly rounded at apex, with the apical groove more 
acutely rounded than apex, and extending to the lateral margins. 
Prosternum finely and densely rugose. Front and middle tibiae 
strongly arcuate. 
Length, 3.5 mm. ; width, 1.4 mm. 
Type locality. — El Yunque, Porto Rico. 
Type.— C?it. No. 26818, U.S.N.M. 
Described from a single male example received from G. N. Wolcott 
of the Porto Rico Experiment Station and which was collected at 
El Yunque, Porto Rico, by R. T. Cotton, March 23, 1917. El Yunque 
is a mountain 3,790 feet high, in the northeastern part of the island, 
between Mameyes and Fajardo. 
TAPHROCERUS AENEOCOLLIS, new species 
Form elongate, subcylindrical, strongly attenuate posteriorly, mod- 
erately convex above, and feebly shining; head and pronotum dark 
olivaceo-aeneous ; elytra piceous, without pubescent spots; beneath 
piceous, with a feeble aeneous tinge. 
Head slightly narrower than pronotum at base, and when viewed 
from above is transversely truncate, with a longitudinal groove 
extending from the occiput to a somewhat flattened transverse area 
in front of epistoma, the groove obsolete on the occiput, but becoming 
more broadly and deeply impressed on the front, which is wide, with 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 189 
the sides more widely separated above than in front, and feebly con- 
vex between the eyes; surface finely and densely graniilose, with a 
few large, shallow, irregularly placed punctures intermixed, sparsely 
clothed with a few vei*y short cinereous hairs behind the epistoma; 
eyes large, oval, more acutely rounded beneath than above, rather 
strongly convex, but only feebly projecting; epistoma flat, and rather 
narrowly and deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum 
moderately convex, nearly two times as wide as long, apex and base 
about equal in width, widest at about the middle ; sides when viewed 
from above are regularly arcuate; anterior margin nearly truncate; 
base transversely truncate to middle of elytron, then turning 
obliquely backward to the scutellum, in front of which it is feebly 
arcuately emarginate; surface with a narrow transverse depression 
along anterior margin, connected on each side to a broad depression 
at lateral margin, this depression extending obliquely backward and 
becoming nearly obsolete at base, and not extending transversely in 
front of scutellum, surface with a few scattered ocellate punctures, 
from the center of which arises a short inconspicuous cinereous hair ; 
intervals finely and densely reticulate. Scutellum triangular, feebly 
rounded in front, with the surface obsoletely reticulate. Elytra mod- 
erately convex, slightly wider than pronotum at base; humeral 
angles obtusely angulated ; sides strongly arcuately concave from the 
humeral angles to the middle, where they are about equal in width 
to the base, then strongly obliquely attenuate to the tips, which are 
conjointly broadly rounded and feebly serrulate; humeri well devel- 
oped; each elytron with a rather shallow, broad basal depression, 
and without a lateral carina; surface with distinct rows of shallow, 
feebly defined punctures, which are obsoletely granulose at the bot- 
tom and from the center of which arises a short, inconspicuous, cine- 
reous hair, the punctures larger at the base but becoming gradually 
smaller toward the apex, where they are nearly obsolete; intervals 
feebly rugose at the sides, but becoming smoother on the disk. Abdo- 
men beneath moderately convex, sparsely and rather obsoletely punc- 
tate, the punctures very shallow, oblong, open on the one side, larger 
and more closely placed on the first segment, but becoming small and 
indistinct on the last one, each puncture bearing a short recumbent 
cinereous hair; intervals finely and obsoletely reticulate; last seg- 
ment broadly rounded at apex, the apical groove following the out- 
line of lateral margin but not extending to it. Prosternum finely 
and densely reticulate-punctate. Front and middle tibiae moder- 
ately arcuate. 
Length, 3 mm. ; width, 1 mm. 
Type locality. — Trinidad, West Indies. 
Type and paratype.—Csit. No. 26817, T^.S.N.M. 
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Described from two specimens collected by August Busck. The 
type is labeled " Trinidad, W. I., June," and the paratype " Port of 
Spain, Trinidad, June 19." 
The species is closely allied to siibgldber Fisher, but can be easily 
distinguished from that species by the shape of the pronotum, which 
is widest at about the middle and arcuately rounded, while in suh- 
glaher it is obliquely dilated to the base, where it is the widest. It 
might also be confused with tenuis Fisher, but that species has a dis- 
tinct lateral carina on the elytra. 
TAPHROCERUS AENEOCUPREUS, new species 
Form rather broadly elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, 
moderately convex above, shining, uniformly aeneous, with a slighi 
cupreous tinge in certain lights, and without pubescent spots: be 
neath more olivaceo-aeneous than above. 
Head slightly narrower than pronotum at base, and when viewed 
from above is transversely truncate in front, with an obsolete longi 
tudinal groove, which is shallow and broad near the epistoma, but 
becoming very narrow and resembling a carina on the vertex and 
occiput; front wide, with the sides nearly parallel and very feebly 
convex between the eyes ; surface densely, coarsely granulose, coarsely 
and sparsely punctate, the punctures very shallow and distinctly 
separated, and clothed with a few very short, cinereous hairs; eyes 
large, elongate, more acutely rounded beneath than above, strongly 
convex, and slightly projecting; epistoma slightly elevated and 
broadly arcuately emarginate in front. 
Pronotum moderately convex, two times as wide as long, apex and 
base nearly equal in width, widest at apical third ; sides when viewed 
from above are strongly obliquely expanded from the anterior 
margin to apical third, then obliquely attenuate to the posterior 
angles, which are obtusely angulated; anterior margin obsoletely 
rounded; base truncate to middle of elytron, then turning obliqueh' 
backward to the scutellum, in front of which it is rather deeply 
arcuately emarginate ; surface with a narrow, shallow, transverse de- 
pression along the anterior margin, and with a broader transverse 
depression behind the middle, connected on each side to the anterior 
depression, the surface with a few coarse widely separated punctures, 
from the center of which arises a short inconspicuous cinereous 
hair, the intervals finely and densely granulose. Scutellum tri- 
angular, rounded in front, acuminate behind, and with the 
surface finely, densely granulose. Elytra moderately convex, 
slightly wider than pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely 
angulated; sides strongly sinuate from the humeral angles to 
middle, where they are broadly rounded and about equal in width 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPEESTIDAE FISHER 191 
to the base, then obliquely attenuate to the tips, which are sepa- 
rately narrowly rounded and finely serralate; humeri well de- 
veloped; each elytron with a broad and rather deep basal de- 
pression, but without a lateral carina; surface with indistinct 
rows of coarse, shallow punctures, the punctures rather distinct on 
basal area, but becoming more indistinct toward the apex ; intervals 
densely, coarsely granulose, more or less rugose, and clothed with a 
few short recumbent cinereous hairs, which are more numerous in 
the apical region. Abdomen beneath moderately convex, coarsely 
and sparsely punctate, the punctures very shallow, oblong, and open 
posteriorly, each puncture bearing a very short recumbent cinereous 
hair; intervals densely and obsoletely reticulate; last segment nar- 
rowly flattened and truncate at apex, with the apical groove deep 
and following the outline of the lateral margin, but not extending 
to it. Prosternum coarsely and densely reticulate. Front and mid- 
dle tibiae slightly arcuate, the posterior pair nearly straight. 
Length, 4 mm. ; width, 1.25 mm. 
Type locality. — Cayamas, Cuba. 
Type and paratype.—Cvit. No. 26819, U.S.N.M. 
Described from two specimens collected by E. A. Schwarz, Febru- 
ary 28. 
This is one of the largest West Indian species, and is of a uni- 
formly bronzy-coppery color above. It is allied to laesicolUs Chev- 
rolat, but can be separated from that species by the absence of the 
longitudinal lateral carina on the elytra. 
TAPHROCERUS TIMIDUS Chevrolat 
Tapliroeerus timidtis Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser, 4, vol. 7, 
1867, pp. 587-588 (separates pp. 163-164).— Gundlach, Contribucion 
a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 171, No. 1053. 
Form elongate, subcylindrical, strongly attenuate posteriorly, 
moderately convex above, and rather shining; above uniformly 
piceous, with a distinct aeneous tinge^ and without pubescent spots; 
beneath slightly less aeneous than above. 
Head slightly narrower than pronotum at base, and when viewed 
from above is broadly rounded in front, with a narrow, feebly im- 
pressed longtiudinal groove, extending from the epistoma to the 
vertex, but becoming obsolete on the occiput; front wide, with the 
sides more widely separated above than in front and feebly convex 
between the eyes; surface densely and rather coarsely granulose, 
coarsely, densely punctate, the punctures shallow and distinctly 
separated, and clothed with a few very short cinereous hairs; eyes 
elongate, more acutely rounded beneath than above, nearly flat and 
not projecting ; epistoma flat and rather narrowly and deeply arcu- 
ately emarginate in front. Pronotum moderately convex, one and 
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one-half times as wide as long, apex and base about equal in width, 
widest at basal third; sides when viewed from above are feebly 
obliquely expanded from anterior margin to basal third, then 
abruptly constricted and parallel to the posterior angles, which are 
rectangular; anterior margin nearly truncate; base truncate to 
middle of elytron, then feebly oblique to the scutellum, in front of 
which it is truncate or feebly emarginate; surface with an obsolete 
transverse depression along the anterior margin, connected on each 
side to a broad depression at lateral margin, and then extending 
obliquely backward and connected to a broad transverse depression 
along the base, the surface rather coarsely and densely punctate, 
the punctures shallow, distinctly separated, and from the center 
of each arises a very short cinereous hair, the intervals rather 
coarsely and densely granulose. Scutellum subtriangular, truncate 
or feebly rounded in front, broadly rounded behind, and with the 
surface finely, densely granulose. Elytra moderately convex, slightly 
wider than pronotum at base; humeral angles obtusely angulated; 
sides strongly sinuate from humeral angles to middle, where they 
are broadly rounded and about equal in width to the base, then 
obliquely attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded 
and obsoletely serrulate; humeri well developed; each elytron with 
a broad and rather deep basal depression and without a lateral 
carina; surface with indistinct rows of shallow, irregularly placed 
stelliform punctures; intervals more or less rugose and clothed 
with a few short recumbent cinereous hairs. Abdomen beneath 
strongly convex, sparsely and coarsely punctate, the punctures shal- 
low, open posteriorly, equally distributed over the first two segments, 
but on the posterior three segments they are arranged along the 
posterior margin, and each puncture bearing a short recumbent 
cinereous hair; intervals finely and coarsely reticulate; last segment 
broadly rounded at apex, with the apical groove deep, and following 
the outline of the lateral margin but not extending to it. Pro- 
sternum finely and densely reticulate. Front and middle tibiae 
slightly arcuate, the posterior pair straight. 
Length, 3 mm. ; width, 1 mm. 
This spe^^ies was described by Chevrolat from the central part of 
Cuba from material in the collections of Gundlach, Poey, and 
Chevrolat, and he writes that the insect is found on a species of 
rushes. Gundlach (1891) records collecting it on one of the rushes 
(J uncus, species) at Cienago de Zapata, Cuba. 
The following Cuban material has been examined, and from which 
the above description was made. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : One 
specimen from Cuba, collected 7 kilometers north of Vinales, Sep- 
tember 16-24, 1913, by F. E. Lutz, the vegetation consisting of 
grasses and weeds (largely Solanum and Bidens) of pasture and 
'*RT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 193 
roadside in dry places. Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : One specimen received 
from S. C. Bruner labeled " Nagua, Oriente," collected July 7, 1922, 
by C. H. Ballon. No specimens of this species have been found in 
the Poey collection in Philadelphia, but Mr. Bruner reports that 
there is a single example labeled No. 1053 in the Gundlach Museum 
in Habana, but this specimen has not been examined by the writer. 
Genus LEIOPLEURA H. Deyrolle 
Leiopleura H. Deyrolle, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 8, 1864, p. 219.— Kebbe- 
MANS, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 32&-330. 
Head narrow, declivous in front, moderately convex behind, and 
with the front grooved ; epistoma broadly emarginate in front, nar- 
row and elongate between the antennal cavities; antennal cavities 
large and nearly contiguous and extending almost to interior margin 
of the eyes. Antennae short and slender; first and second joints 
short and thick, the first slightly longer than the second; third to 
fifth elongate, very slender, and subequal in length to each other; 
the following joints abruptly dentate on the inner side, and armed 
with terminal poriferous fovea. Eyes moderately large, suboval, 
and parallel on the inner margin. Pronotum wider than long, nar- 
rower in front than behind ; disk convex ; sides impressed, with the 
margin sinuate or arcuate; base frequently depressed, strongly 
bisinuate, with a large median lobe. Scutellum large and triangu- 
lar. Elytra broad, strongly convex, often strongly impressed at the 
sides behind the humeri, strongly attenuate posteriorly to the apex, 
which is separately or conjointly rounded. Sternal cavity formed 
by the mesosternum and metasternum, the lateral branches of the 
former invisible. Metasternum broadly emarginate or truncate in 
front. Prosternum with a deep oblique groove at the sides for the 
insertion of the antennae while in repose; anterior margin some- 
times with a median lobe; prosternal process usually very broad, 
and broadly rounded at apex, and not constricted by the coxal cavi- 
ties. Middle coxae a little more widely separated than the anterior 
ones; posterior coxae dilated internally, narrowest at middle, and 
feebly dilated externally. Legs rather robust and not lodged in 
depressions beneath; femora feebly swollen; tibiae slender, sub- 
cylindrical and nearly straight, the anterior and median ones feebly 
arcuate; tarsi very short and the joints nearly subequal in length; 
tarsal claws dentate at base. Body elliptical or oval, more or less 
elongate, and very convex above. 
This genus was erected by Deyrolle and placed in his table for 
separating the genera of Malaysian Trachytes, without giving a 
further description, but in a footnote gives the following: "Type 
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due genre, Brachys concinna Gory, etc." The species of this genus 
are very numerous, and their distribution has been confined to the 
warmer parts of Mexico, Central and South America, with the 
exception of one species, which has been described from the West 
Indies. 
LEIOPLEURA COMPACTILIS Cheyrolat 
Leiopleura compactllis Chrevolat, Anu. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 
1867, p. 588 (separates p. 164). — Gundlach, Contribucion {\ la Entom. 
Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 171-172, no. 862. 
The folloAving is a translation of Chevrolat's original description: 
Broad, short, and cupreous; head rounded, convex, green and 
deeply sulcate in its entire length; antennae black; eyes large, some- 
what oblong and luteous; thorax pale cupreous, distinctly punctu- 
late, attenuate anteriorly, straight, at vertex arcuate, within slightly 
margined and sulcate, posteriorly broader, broadly biarcuate, and 
truncate in front of scutellum, sides deflexed and rounded, the four 
angles shortly prominent; scutellum triangular and aeneous; elytra 
aureous (quadratical in form), parallel, margins reflexed, then 
toward the apex conjointly angularly and obtusely produced, at 
middle of the base transvei^ely reflexed, beyond the middle semi- 
circularly elevated, and posteriorly transversely depressed, strongly 
and almost regularly punctate; body beneath and legs cupreous. 
Length, 3.5 mm. ; width, 2 mm. Cuba, in the central region. Collec- 
tions of Gundlach and Poey. 
Gundlach (1891) records collecting it at Guamacaro, between Ma- 
tanzas and Cardenas, Cuba. 
The species is not represented in the Poey collection in Philadel- 
phia, but there is a single example labeled No. 862 in the Gundlach 
Museum in Habana, which has not been available for study. 
Genus PARADOMORPHUS Waterhouse 
Paradomorphiis Watekhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1887, p. 183 ; Biol. 
Centr. Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1889, pp. 51-57. — Keruemans, 
Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 263-264. 
Head more or less tuberculate, front grooved ; epistoma emarginate 
in front and strongly narrowed by the antennal cavities; antennal 
cavities large, elliptical, oblique and placed at some distance from the 
ej'es; cheeks armed with a short, acute tooth. Antennae 11-jointed, 
not received in a groove in prosternum while at rest, moderately 
long, and serrate from the fourth or fifth joint, the serrate joints 
. armed with terminal poriferous foveae. Eyes rather large, oblong, 
strongly convex, parallel on the inner margin (sometimes a little 
more widely sepai-ated in front than on occiput), Pronotum more 
or less uneven; bisinuate in front, with the median lobe rounded; 
sides more or less sinuate and arcuate ; base strongly bisinuate, with 
a distinct median lobe, Scutellum large, triangular, truncate in 
front and acuminate behind; surface transversely carinate. Elytra 
AKT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 195 
elongate, lobed at base, apex rounded or acuminate; humeri promi- 
nent. Sternal cavity formed by the metasternum, and mesosternum, 
the former arcuately emarginate in front. Mesosternum divided, 
the lateral branches short and scarcely visible. Prosternum Avide in 
front, attenuate behind, and the anterior margin with a distinct lobe. 
Middle coxae not more widely separated than the anterior ones. 
Posterior coxae short, slightly dilated internally, narrowest at mid- 
dle, and strongly dilated anteriorly at the lateral margin. Abdomen 
not distinctly visible from above, first and second segments united. 
Legs slightly robust ; femora fusiform, the anterior and median ones 
dentate on the inner margin ; anterior and median tibiae feebly arcu- 
ate, the posterior ones straight ; tarsi more or less elongate and com- 
pressed, the joints armed with distinct lamellae, first joint of pos- 
terior pair as long or longer than the following three joints united; 
tarsal claws dentate, appendiculate or bifid. Body oblong, elongate, 
and slightly attenuate posteriorly. 
Waterhouse has erected this genus for Agrilus frontalis Castelnau 
and Gory, and allied species, which differ from Agrilus in having 
the basal joint of the posterior tarsi comparatively short, but this 
seems to be a variable character as intermediate forms exist, and in 
a large series of species the two genera will run together. Kerre- 
mans is his classification of this family has retained Paradomorphus 
as a valid genus for the species having the anterior and middle 
femora finely dentate on the inner margin. 
The species of this genus is Avidely distributed throughout Mexico, 
Central America, and the northern part of South America, but so 
far only one species has been found in the West Indies. 
PARADOMORPHUS ALBICOLLIS Waterhouse 
Paradomorphus alMcollis Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1887, 
p. 184. 
Elongate, broadly rounded in front, feebly attenuate behind, and 
only slightly narrower behind than in front, subopaque ; head black, 
with bluish and cupreous reflections; pronotum entirely covered 
with a dense white tomentose, which conceals the surface sculpture; 
elytra piceous, cyaneo-aeneous at base, more strongly aeneous at 
lateral sides near middle, and with strong cyaneous reflections pos- 
teriorly; each elytron ornated with cinerous pubescence as follows: 
Three small irregular spots on the disk, the spots arranged in a 
straight line between the suture and longitudinal costa, the first 
rather obsolete just behind the scutellum, a larger one at basal third, 
and a similar one just behind the middle, there is also a narrow zig- 
zag fascia at apical third extending from the lateral margin slightly 
forward, then turning obliquely backward, and finally a little trans- 
verse, but not reaching the suture ; there is also a broad white tomen- 
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tose fascia extending from suture to lateral margin and separated 
from apex by an narrow glabrous area ; beneath piceous, with a pur- 
plish and aeneous reflection. 
Head feebly convex; with four round nodules, two on the occiput 
and two on the front, the anterior ones strongly cupreous, the front 
longitudinally grooved from occiput to epistoma; surface sparsely 
punctate, the punctures rather deep and becoming somewhat con- 
fused behind the epistoma, the intervals nearly smooth; epistoma 
slightly wider than the antennal cavities and broadly arcuately 
emarginate in front. Antennae extending to about the middle of 
pronotum; first joint short and feebly arcuate; second feebly clavate, 
and slightly shorter than the first; third and fourth cylindrical, 
slightly shorter and more slender than the second, and subequal in 
length ; following joints strongly triangular. Pronotum evenly con- 
vex, one and one-third times as wide as long at middle, slightly nar- 
rower in front than behind, widest at about middle; sides broadly, 
arcuately rounded; posterior angles nearly rectangular; anterior 
margin bisinuate, with a broadly rounded median lobe ; base nearly 
truncate to elytral lobe, then turning obliquely backward, and 
broadly truncate in front of scutellum. Scutellum finely and densely 
granulose. Elytra about as wide as pronotum at base; sides feebly 
expanded behind humeral angles, which are obtusely rounded, feebly 
sinuate to behind middle, where they are broadly rounded, then ob- 
liquely attenuate to the tips, which are separately, broadly rounded, 
and finely dentate; humeri strongly elevated; surface broadly im- 
pressed at base, with an obsolete, irregular costa on each elytron, 
densely but not very deeply punctate, and strongly transversely 
rugose, besides the cinereous pubescent designs, the surface is also 
sparsely clothed witli inconspicuous black hairs. Abdomen strongly 
convex, sparsely and finely punctate, the punctures shallow and con- 
nected transversely by shallow, sinuate striae, the striae and punc- 
tures much coarser at sides of basal segment and from each puncture 
arises a short recumbent hair, and with a conspicuous white tomen- 
tose spot on the sides of the third and fifth segments ; intervals finely, 
obsoletely granulose; last segment broadly rounded at apex. Pros- 
ternum feebly, transversely rugose, and densely granulose; pros- 
ternal lobe broad, with the anterior margin broadly, arcuately emar- 
ginate, and broadly rounded on each side of the emargination ; pros- 
ternal process nearly flat, feebly attenuate posteriorly, and broadly 
rounded at apex. Tarsal claws with a broad, obtuse tooth at base. 
Length, 8.5 mm. ; width, 2.3 mm. 
This species was described from Jamaica by Waterhouse and is 
slightly larger (Qi^ mm.) than the one examined by the writer. The 
above description was made from a specimen kindly loaned by the 
British Museum and simply labeled "Jamaica." 
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Genus AGRILUS Curtis 
Agrilus Curtis, British Entomology, vol. 2, 1825, No. 67. — Stephens, Illustr. 
British Ent., vol. 3, 1830, pp. 239-241, pi. 19, fig. 2.— Eschscholtz, Zool. 
Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint, p. 8). — Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 300-303, pi. 12, fig. 24.— Castelnau and Gory, 
Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, pp. 1-70, pis. 1-15. — Lacordaire, Gen. Col., 
vol. 4, 1857, pp. 83-84.— Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 18, 1891, 
pp. 277-336, pi. 8. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, 
pt. 4, 1903, pp. 266-292. 
Head vertical, and quite variable, grooved, flat, tuberculate or 
simply convex behind; epistoma emarginate in front and narrowed 
by the antennal cavities, cheeks unarmed or with an obtuse tooth on 
each side ; antennal cavities rather large, oblique and prolonged into 
a groove in front and situated at some distance from the eyes. An- 
tennae variable, often short, and dentate from the fourth or fifth 
joint, and not inserted in a groove in the prosternum while in repose ; 
first joint rather elongate and robust; second, third, and sometimes 
the fourth short and feebly clavate; the following joints triangular, 
dentate on the inner side, and armed with a terminal poriferous 
fovea. Eyes large, oval, parallel on the inner margin (sometimes a 
little more widely separated in front than on occiput). Pronotura 
wider than long, rather convex, broadly emarginate or bisinuate in 
front; sides more or less arcuate, with two distinct margins, the 
inner one abbreviated and joined to the outer one posteriorly; base 
bisinuate, with a broad median lobe, more or less truncate, rounded 
or emarginate in front of scutellum ; surface with or without impres- 
sions, and sometimes with a distinct lateral carina near posterior 
angles. Scutellum broad, acute posteriorly, and sometimes trans- 
versely carinate. Elytra elongate, sinuate at base, with or without 
longitudinal costae; humeri prominent; sides sinuate, and often not 
covering the sides of the abdomen; apex very variable, sometimes 
expanded, acute, broadly rounded, or strongly dentate. Sternal 
cavity formed by the metasternum and mesosternum, the former 
arcuately emarginate in front. Mesosternum divided, the lateral 
branches very short. Prosternum wide, and more or less lobed in 
front ; anterior margin truncate, rounded or emarginate ; prosternal 
process broad, with the apex acute, truncate, rounded or expanded. 
Middle coxae not more widely separated than the anterior ones; pos- 
terior coxae short, slightly dilated internally, narrowest at middle, 
and strongly dilated anteriorly at the lateral margin. Abdomen 
sometimes visible from above. Legs slender; femora fusiform, not 
dentate on inner margin, and frequently more strongly swollen in the 
male than female ; tibiae slender and subcylindrical, the anterior ones 
sometimes ciliate; tarsi long and slender, and the joints armed with 
distinct lamellae, first joint of posterior pair as long or longer than 
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the following three joints united ; tarsal claws bifid or dentate. Body 
elongate, feebly convex, broadly rounded in front, and acuminate 
behind. 
This is a very large genus containing over 1,000 described species 
which are distributed throughout the entire world, with the exception 
of the extreme northern parts. The species of this genus seem to be 
rare in the West Indies, as only two have been described from that 
region, and the specimens are extremely rare in collections. 
AGRILUS DOMINICANUS Thomson 
Agrilus dominicanus Thomson, Typi Buprestidarum, 1878, pp. 88-89. 
Elongate, rather robust, broadly rounded in front, strongly attenu- 
ate behind, and distinctly wider in front than behind, olivaceous- 
green, with cupreous and purplish reflections in certain lights, the 
cupreous tinge more pronounced on the head and pronotum; be- 
neath aeneous, with a strong purplish tinge. 
Head broadly but not very deeply concave, the concavity deeper 
and narrower on the vertex, becoming broader on the front and ex- 
tending to the epistoma and transversely to the margin of the eyes, 
the margins parallel on the front and strongly constricted on the ver- 
tex; surface coarsely, irregularly rugose, becoming coarsely punctate 
on the occiput, with a narrow smooth carina along the margin of the 
eyes, rather densely clothed with moderately long, wide, recumbent 
fulvous hairs, having a tendency of forming denser spots on the 
front; intervals finely and densely granulose; epistoma wider than 
long, about two times as wide as the antennal cavities, separated from 
the front by a transverse arcuate carina, deeply and broadly arcu- 
ately emarginate in front, with the surface finely granulose; eyes 
feebly reniform, moderately convex, and two times as long as wide. 
Antennae extending to about the middle of pronotum, and serrate 
from the fourth joint. Pronotum rather evenly convex, one and one- 
third times as wide as long, about equal in width at base and apex, 
slightly narrower at basal fifth; sides nearly parallel, with a feeble 
sinuation near the base, and not explanate; lateral marginal edge 
sinuate when viewed from the side, and the two margins uniting 
near basal third; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a 
broadly rounded median lobe; base truncate to elytral lobe, then 
abruptly emarginate and turning obliquely backward to the scutel- 
lum, in front of which it is broadly truncate; posterior angles rec- 
tangular, with a rather broad, strongly sinuate carina extending to 
the apical angles ; surface with a broad, moderately deep longitudinal 
median impression extending from the anterior margin to scutellum, 
and on the inner side of the lateral carina, a very sinuate impression 
extending from base to the anterior margin, the surface is also 
coarsely, transversely, and irregularly strigose; intervals finely and 
densely granulose, with a few fine punctures along the strigae, the 
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punctures becoming closer toward the sides, and sparsely clothed 
with a few inconspicuous fulvous hairs in the impressions. Scutel- 
lum very broad, with a sharply defined transverse carina, and the 
surface rather coarsely and densely granulose. Elytra slightly wider 
than pronotum at base, nearly parallel to basal fifth, feebly sinuate 
to behind middle, where they are broadly emarginate, then obliquely 
attenuate to the tips, which are separately broadly rounded, and 
strongly dentate, the teeth well separated; sides of abdomen nar- 
rowly visible from above ; each elytron feebly flattened along sutural 
margin, rather broadly, deeply impressed at base, and with a dis- 
tinct sinuate and broadly rounded costa extending from the humeri 
to apex; humeri moderately elevated; surface densely, irregularly, 
but not very deeply punctate, somewhat rugose at the sides and basal 
region, and very sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous fulvous 
hairs. Abdomen beneath strongly convex, rather densely punctate, 
the punctures rather shallow and widely separated at the middle, 
but becoming coarser and somewhat rugose at the sides; rather 
densely clothed with short, recumbent, cinereous and fulvous hairs, 
the hairs long and erect at the apex; intervals finely and densely 
granulose; first segment convex, not impressed nor more pubescent 
than rest of abdomen; last segment broadly rounded at apex; ver- 
tical portions of segments only sparsely pubescent; pygidium not 
carinate. Prosternum coarsely and rather densely punctate, sparsely 
clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs, and the intervals finely gran- 
ulose ; prostemal lobe long, declivous and broadly arcuately rounded 
in front; prostemal process broad, flat, strongly expanded behind 
coxal cavities, then obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is rather 
broadly rounded. Posterior tarsi three-fourths as long as the tibiae ; 
first joint as long as the following three joints united ; anterior and 
middle tibiae slightly arcuate, with a feeble mucro at the inner apex, 
the posterior pair simple ; tarsal claws divergent, with a small tooth 
at base, which is not turned inward. 
Length, 11,5 mm.; width, 3 mm. 
This species was described in a short description by Thomson from 
Santo Domingo and seems to be rare in collections. The only speci- 
men examined by the writer which agrees very well with Thomson's 
description for this species, and from which the above description 
was made, is in the collection of the American Museum of Natural 
History at New York. This specimen was collected at Kio Seco, San 
Carlos Estate, Guantanamo, Cuba, on June 16, 1916, by Chas. T. 
Ramsden. There is a single example of this species in the British 
Museum which has not been examined by the writer. 
The species is closely allied to macer LeConte, from the United 
States, but differs from it in having the pronotum longitudinally 
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impressed ffrom base to anterior margin, disk more finely rugose and 
granulose, the lateral carina extending to the apical angles, and the 
prostemal process strongly expanded behind the coxal cavities. 
AGRILUS DENTICORNIS Chevrolat 
Agrilus denticornis Chevtiolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, 
p. 586 (separates p. 162). — Gundlach, Contribucion a, la Entom. Cuba, 
vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 170, No. 959. 
The following is a translation of Chevrolat's original description : 
Form of Arrilus gemmata Say, linear, granulose and dark vio- 
laceous; head densely punctate, vertex truncate, moderately convex 
and bronzy-green ; frontal sulcus transversely impressed posteriorly, 
antennae attaining the base of thorax, slender and black, joints 5 
to 10 angulated (5 to 8 triangular) ; thorax just as wide as long, in 
front straight, disk arcuate, base exteriorly strongly sinuate, at 
sides arcuately dilated, with the margins deplanate, above deeply 
f ossulate, disk longitudinally convex and densely transversely granu- 
lose ; scutellum transversely reflexed ; elytra granulose, parallel, sepa- 
rately rounded, apex denticulate, base impressed, at humeri reflexed ; 
wings violaceous ; legs slender and black ; body beneath bright cupre- 
ous, densely and lightly punctate. Length, 4.5 mm.; width, 1 mm. 
Cuba, from central part of the island. Collections of Gundlach and 
Poey. 
This small species rather approaches by its form to our slender 
species from Europe. 
Gundlach (1891) records collecting in the Cienago de Zapata, Cuba. 
The species is not represented in the Poey collection in Philadelphia, 
but there is a single example labeled No. 959 in the Gundlach Museum 
in Habana, which has not been available for study. 
Genus MICRASTA Kerremans 
Micrasta Kebbemans, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 37, 1893, p. 115 ; Wytsmau's 
Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 333-334. 
Head feebly convex, with a feeble longitudinal groove; epistoma 
rather elongate and feebly emarginate in front; antennal cavities 
small, rounded and situated close to the inner margin of the eyes. 
Antennae short, glabrous, and dentate from the fourth joint; first 
and second joints thick, the first slightly longer than second; third 
small; the following joints triangular, (except sometimes the apical 
joint), dentate on the inner side, and armed with a terminal porif- 
erous fovea. Eyes moderately large, oval, feebly projecting, and 
parallel on the inner margin. Pronotum wider than long, strongly 
convex; anterior margin arcuately emarginate; sides arcuately 
rounded; base transversely truncate. Scutellum very small and sub- 
triangular. Elytra very convex, truncate, and transversely im- 
pressed at base ; sides parallel in front ^nd broadly rounded behind. 
Sternal cavity formed entirely by the metasternum, the mesosternum 
ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHEE 201 
invisible. Metasternum broadly truncate in front. Prosternum 
wide and flat; anterior margin truncate; prosternal process rec- 
tangular and truncate at apex. Middle coxae not more widely sepa- 
rated than the anterior ones, the posterior pair nearly rectangular, 
feebly dilated internally and externally. Legs feebly robust and 
not contractile; femora feebly swollen at middle; tibiae slender, 
straight, and subcylindrical ; tarsi very short; tarsal claws broadly 
toothed at base. Body oblong, subcylindrical, and equally rounded 
in front and behind. 
This genus was erected by Kerremans (1893) for a number of 
species from Brazil. Obenberger (1917) described two species from 
Guadeloupe, neither of which has been examined by the writer. 
MICRASTA GYLEKI Obenberger 
Micrasta gyleki Obenbebgeb, Eutomol. Blatter, vol. 13, 1917, p. 90. 
The following is a translation of Obenberger's original descrip- 
tion: 
Habitat: Guadeloupe. 
Length : 2-2.7 mm. 
Beautiful golden-bronzy color. Head convex, the surface sha- 
greened, moderately, strongly, sparsely, somewhat finely striate, uni- 
formh^^ punctate. Middle of front with a small, round impression. 
Eyes situated in the same curve with the front. Antennae long, 
filiform, black, and extending beyond the base of prothorax. 
The proportional length of the single joints: 
I.:=3 ; wide, conical, about two times as long as the width at apex. 
II. =2; like I, apical part broad, nearly spherical, 
III. = 1; very short, about two times as slender as II, and as long 
as wide. 
IV.=3; long, triangular, about two times as long as wide. 
V.=2i/2 ; as wide as the IV. 
VI. =2; as wide as the IV. 
Vn.rz:Same as VL 
VIII.=Same as VL 
IX. = 134; long, fusiform. 
X.=:Same as IX. 
XI.r=2; long, acuminate. 
The prothorax one and one-half times as wide as long at the mid- 
dle ; anterior margin feebly arcuate ly emarginate ; sides expanded at 
apical third, anteriorly strongly rounded, and posteriorly very feebly 
arcuately narrowed ; posterior angles acutely rectangular ; laterally 
with a small, very sharp, acute, emarginate, marginal line; when 
viewed laterally this line is entire and straight ; under this line there 
is a submarginal line, which is somewhat obliquely placed, inclined 
toward the hind angles and converging with the marginal line. The 
entire upper side of the prothorax is shagreened, sparsely, somewhat 
finely striate, moderately strongly punctured ; some of the punctures 
are finely transversely confluent with each other. Base almost trun- 
cate, the posterior angles slightly produced outward. Scutellum 
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somewhat longer than wide, triangular, and shagreened. Elytra 
wide, moderately, strongly, obliquely convex, parallel to apical 
fourth, then broadly conjointly rounded, two times as long as wide, 
strongly shining and not shagreened, everywhere (nearly as strongly 
as on the prothorax) simply punctate. Legs bronzy, and the tarsi 
dark brown. 
This magnificent, charming little species, the first species of this 
genus from the Antilles, I have received from my highly honored 
friend and fellow traveler, Mr. Gylek, president of the Wiener 
Coleopt. Society. I beg leave to name this pretty, new species after 
my friend, who has always offered assistance in my studies with his 
entomological material. 
MICRASTA PYGMAEOLA Obenberger 
Micrasta pygmaeola Obenberger, Entomol. Blatter, vol. 13, 1917, p. 91. 
The following is a translation of Obenberger's original descrip- 
tion : 
Habit: Guadeloupe. 
Length : 2 mm. 
Head and prothorax blue, elytra of a golden-bronzy color, antennae 
and femora blackish, the tibiae and tarsi yellow. 
Head with a dimple-like depression in the middle, convex, smooth, 
shining, and not shagreened, everywhere sparsely, moderately, 
strongly, and simply punctate. Antennae long, reaching almost to 
the base of prothorax; each joint, beginning at the third, is serrate 
and expanded. Prothorax one and one-third times as wide as long, 
convex, and in front and at base evenly truncate ; at the middle the 
sides are expanded, from there (at the front somewhat stronger than 
at the base) anteriorly and posteriorly arcuately narrowed. Above 
convex, shining, not shagreened, simply, moderately, densely, but not 
too strongly punctate, similar to that on the head. Elytra somewhat 
more than two times as long as wide, parallel, shining, densely, mod- 
erately, strongly, simply punctate, everywhere with feebly distinct, 
very short, whitish hairs (this pubescence not very distinct, and only 
visible with a very strong lens). Elytra parallel to the apical third, 
then broadly rounded to the tips, which are conjointly rounded. The 
dorsal part of the abdomen which is covered by the elytra is dark 
bronzy-green, otherwise the part is yellow. 
This pretty little species is separated from gyleki by the color, 
and the upper side not shagreened, the color of the tarsi, the different 
form of the prothorax, etc. 
Genus MASTOGENIUS Solier 
Mastogenius Solier, Gay's Hist. Nat. Chile, Zool., vol. 4, 1851, pp. 507-508.— 
Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, p. 85. — Kerremans, Wytsman's 
Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 4, 1903, pp. 332-333. 
Haplostethus LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., vol. 11, 1859, 
pp. 253-254. 
Head regularly convex, with or without a feeble longitudinal 
groove; epistoma moderately wide between the antennal cavities and 
AUT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 203 
arcuately emarginate in front; antennal cavities large, triangular, 
and extending to the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae rather 
long, and dentate from the fourth joint; first and second joints 
thick, the first slightly longer than the second, which is globular; 
third elongate and more slender than the second; the following joints 
elongate, triangular, wider in front, dentate on the inner side, and 
armed with a terminal poriferous fovea. Eyes rather large, oval, 
partially covered bj' the pronotum, a little oblique, and slightly 
closer together on the occiput than at the bottom of front. Prono- 
tum wider than long, convex ; anterior margin arcuately emarginate ; 
sides arcuately rounded, with a lateral carina parallel to the anterior 
margin, which is not visible from above; base transversely truncate. 
Scutellmn small and feebly triangular. Elytra convex, truncate, 
and transversely impressed at base; sides nearly parallel in front, 
and broadly rounded behind. Sternal cavity formed entirely by the 
metasternum, the mesosternum invisible. Metasternum broad and 
nearly truncate in front. Prosternum wide, convex at middle; an- 
terior margin truncate or arcuately emarginate; prosternal process 
rectangular and truncate at apex. Middle coxae not more widely 
separated than the anterior ones, the posterior pair nearly contig- 
uous, and the sides parallel and scarcely dilated internally. Legs 
only feebly robust and not contractile; femora slightly swollen at 
middle; tibiae slender and cylindrical; tarsi very short; tarsal claws 
broadly toothed at base. Body oblong, subcylindrical, and equally 
rounded in front and behind. 
This genus contains a small number of species which are dis- 
tributed from the United States to South America, and so far only 
one has been recorded from the "West Indies. 
MASTOGENIUS UNIFORMIS Waterhouse 
Mastogenius uniformis Waterhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 
vol. 18, 1896, pp. 105-106. 
The following is a copy of Waterhouse's original description: 
Aureo-aeneous, convexus, sat nitidiis, subtiliter punctulatus ; capite convexa, 
fronte vix canalieulata ; thorace lateribiis leviter arcuatis, basi triincato ; elytris 
subparallelis, apice arciiatim attenuatis ; antennis pedibiisque fere nigris, tarsis 
brevibus flavescentibus. 
Long. 2 mill. 
Hab. Mount Gay Estate (Leeward side), Grenada, W. I. (H. H. Smith). I 
do not know of any Buprestid quite of this form; it reminds me somewhat of 
Aurigena in its outline, but has the thorax rather broader and more convex^ 
The surface, when examined with the microscope, has somewhat the appear- 
ance of leather. Head convex, finely and not very closely punctui-ed, with a 
slight median impressed line; below with a groove bordering the eye for the 
reception of the basal joints of the antennae, the groove continued on the 
sternum, but becoming gradually narrower and terminating about halfway 
between the front margin and the coxae. Antennae as long as the head and 
thorax together, the two basal joints moderately stout, the third joint rather 
slender, the following joints triangular, the terminal joint elliptical. Thorax 
transverse, convex, almost rectilinear at the base, not much narrowed at the 
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base, arcuately rounded at the sides; finely and not very closely punctured. 
Scutellum rather small, curvilinear. Elytra at base not quite as broad as 
the broadest part of the thorax, about three times as long as the thorax, w'ith 
a very slight transverse impression at the base, without other impressions; the 
punctuation irregular, fine but distinct, the punctures moderately separated 
from each other. Underside sculptured as above. Front and intermediate 
coxae rather widely separated. The prosternal process broad, flat, parallel, 
truncate posteriorly, and fitting close to the metasternum, the process bordered 
on each side by a distinct but fine line, the lines diverging slightly as they 
approach the anterior margin of the prosternum ; with a few large shallow 
punctures. Abdomen with no division between the first and second segments, 
together about half the length of the abdomen, the third and fourth short, fifth 
semicircular. Tarsi short, the first joint scarcely longer than the second. Claws 
dilated at the base, the dilation appearing in some positions like a large tri- 
angular tooth. 
From the foregoing description it will be seen that this species 
differs from the typical species of Mastogenius in having a groove in 
the sternum for a portion of the antennae, and in having the basal 
joint of the tarsi short, etc. 
My first impression was that it must be made the type of a new 
genus; but an examination of some allied forms has convinced me 
that this would be premature. 
The type of this species is in the British Museum, and has not 
been examined by the writer. 
CORRECTIONS 
In my paper on The Leaf and Twig Mining Buprestid Beetles 
of Mexico and Central America ^^ the following errors have occurred : 
Page 6: The paragraph beginning with line 29 should be placed 
under the genus PacJiyschelus^ just before the key to the species on 
page 7. 
Page 73 : The first six lines in the key to the species of Leiopleura 
should read as follows : 
5. Narrow species, more than two times as long as wide ; pronotum with a deep 
depression near posterior angles, where the surface is obsoletely rugose, 
the sides distinctly margined minuta Kerremans. 
Broader species, not two times as long as wide; pronotum without a deep 
depression near posterior angles, where the surface is strongly rugose, the 
sides obsoletely margined nigra Waterhouse 
« Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, Art. 8. 
INDEX 
The following index includes all the genera and species treated in this paper. 
Valid genera are in bold face type; valid species in Roman; and synonyms in 
italics. 
Page 
Acantha Castelnau and Gory 78 
Acmaeodera Eschscholtz 28 
Actenodes Lacordaire 83 
acuminata (De Geer). Melano- 
phila 173 
acuta (Gmelin). Melanophila. _ 173 
adulans Casey. Buprestis 151 
aernula Casey. Buprestis 151 
aeneocoUis Fisher. Taphrocerus 188 
aeneocupreus Fisher. Taphro- 
cerus 190 
affinis Casey. Buprestis 151 
Aglaostola Saunders 165 
Agrilus Curtis 197 
albicollis Waterhouse. Para- 
domorphus 195 
albonotata (Castelnau and 
Gory). Cinyra 142 
amabiiis (Herbst) . Chrysobo- 
thris 123 
amethystipes Castelnau and Gory. 
Psiloptera 54 
Ancylochira Eschscholtz 143 
angulosa Jacquelin Duval. Poly- 
cesta 20 
Anoplis Kirby 143 
Anthaxia Eschscholtz 167 
antillarum Fisher. Chrysobo- 
thris 101 
Apatura Castelnau and Gory 170 
appendiculata (F a b r i c i u s). 
Melanophila 173 
apricans Herbst. Buprestis 147 
atropurpureus (Say) . Melano- 
phila 173 
aulica (Dejean). Psiloptera 51 
aurata Saunders. Psiloptera 56 
aureomicans (Nonfried). Hil- 
arotes 70 
aurichalcea Melsheimer. Di- 
cerca 132 
aurifer (Olivier). Psiloptera 54 
aurifera Castelnau and Gory. 
Psiloptera 56 
aurifera (Fabricius). Psiloptera 54 
auriguttata (Sturm). Actenodes 88 
auronotata (Castelnau and 
Gory). Actenodes 88 
auronoto (Castelnau and Gory). 
Actenodes 90 
aurulenta Linnaeus. Buprestis. 151 
bahamica Fisher. Psiloptera 60 
bella Fisher. Chrysobothris 106 
bella heConte. Actenodes 88 
bellula Dejean. Actenodes 88 
bellula Mannerheim. Actenodes 87 
bifoveata Fisher. Anthaxia 168 
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bosci (Castelnau and Gory). 
Buprestis 147 
Brachys Solier 179 
Buprestis Linnaeus 143 
calcarata Chevrolat. Actenodes 84 
carolinensis Wickham. Gyascu- 
tus 60 
Chalcophora Solier 74 
chalcoptera (Jacquelin Duval). 
Hilarotes 73 
chalybeitarsis Chevrolat. Acte- 
nodes 84 
characteristica (Harris) . Chry- 
sobothris 103 
chevrolati (Kerrmans). Neotra- 
chys 178 
chevrolati Thomson. Poly- 
cesta 15 
chlorosticta Thomson. Chryso- 
bothris 114 
Chrysesthes Solier 66 
Chrysobothris Eschscholtz 91 
Chrysobotris Eschscholtz 91 
chrysomelina Thomson. Tetra- 
gonoschema 176 
Cinyra Castelnau and Gory 136 
compactilis Chevrolat. Leiop- 
leura 194 
confusa Fisher. Acmaeodera. _ 41 
contigua Kerremans. Acmaeo- 
dera 36 
corwsca (Fabricius) . Aglaostola. 166 
costulifera Chevrolat. Cinyra. 138 
Cratomerus Solier 167 
cribrata Thomson. Polycesta.. 12 
cribripennis Casey . Buprestis.. 147 
cruenta (Olivier) . Acmaeodera. 38 
cubae Chevrolat. Polycesta 10 
cubaecola Fall . Acmaeodera 34 
cubaecola Jacquelin Duval. 
Acmaeodera 39 
cubaecola Wickham. Acmaeo- 
dera 44 
cubensis Fisher. Buprestis 157 
cupreomaculatus (Goeze). Chal- 
cophora 76 
cyanipes (Fabricius). Poly- 
cesta 9 
cyanura Chevrolat. Actenodes. 85 
Cynira Saunders 136 
decipiens Fisher. Buprestis.. 158 
decora Fabricius. Buprestis 148 
deficiens Casey. Buprestis 145 
denticollis Gory. Chrysoboth- 
ris 96 
denticornis Chevrolat. Agrilus. 200 
denticulata Castelnau and Gory. 
Chrysobothris • 96 
205 
206 
INDEX 
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dentipes (Germar). Chryso- 
bothris 103 
depressa Castelnau and Gory. 
Polycesta 12 
depressa (Linnaeus). Poly- 
cesta 25 
depressa (Olivier) . Polycesta... 23 
Diana Castelnavi and Gory 170 
Dicerca Eschscholtz 129 
divaricata (Say). Dicerca 132 
dominicanus Thomson. Agrilus. 198 
dubia Melsheimer. Dicerca 132 
elegans Fisher. Mixochlorus 161 
elegans Fisher. Taphrocerus 187 
erythropus (Gory). Halecia 81 
Euchroma Solier 61 
excavata Kerremans. Polycesta. 20 
excavata (Olivier) . Chrysoboth- 
ris 96 
fabulosa Casey. Buprestis 151 
fasciata Fabricius. Buprestis. _ 154 
flavomarginata (Gray). Ac- 
maeodera 36 
f ort unata C&sey. Buprestis 154 
fraterna Mannerheim. Chryso- 
bothris 96 
fulgens Casey. Buprestis 154 
fulgida (Olivier). Psiloptera... 49 
fulminata (Schonherr) . Acten- 
odes 85 
Jusiformis Casey. Buprestis 145 
gigantea Fleutiaux and Sall6. 
Euchroma 62 
goryi Saunders. Polycesta 12 
gossei Waterhouse. Polycesta. 16 
guadeloupensis (Fleutiaux and 
Sall^). Neotrachys 178 
guildini Castelnau and Gory. 
Psiloptera 50 
gundlachi Fisher. Acmaeodera 45 
gyleki Obenberger. Micrasta. . 201 
Halecia Castelnau and Gory 78 
Haplostethus LeConte 202 
harperi Sharp. Euchroma 62 
/ti/aris LeConte. Dicerca 130 
Hilarotes Thomson 69 
hispaniolae Fisher. Chryso- 
bothris 121 
humboldti (Castelnau and 
Gory) . Chalcophora 76 
immaculata Mannerheim. Me- 
lanophila 173 
impressa (Fabricius 1787). 
Chrysobothris 96 
impressa (Olivier) . Chrj^so- 
bothris 94 
inaequalis (Mannerheim). Hi- 
larotes 72 
inconstans Melsheimer. Bu- 
prestis 145 
insulana Fisher. Chrysobothris 125 
jamaicensis Fisher. Acmaeodera 32 
jamaicensis Fisher. Actenodes 90 
jamaicensis Fisher. Chryso- 
bothris ^. 128 
jamaicensis Fisher. Psiloptera. 53 
jamaicensis White. Polycesta. . 9 
Fage 
karakera Chevrolat. Polycesta 25 
laesicollis Chevrolat. Taphro- 
cerus 183 
Lampetis Dejean 47 
lanieri (Chevrolat) . Chryses- 
thes 67 
lateralis Waterhouse. Mixo- 
chlorus 160 
lauta (LeConte). Buprestis 151 
leiopleura H. DeyroUe 193 
lepida Castelnau and Gory. 
Chrysobothris 110 
lepida Gundlach. Chrysoboth- 
ris 119 
leporina Casey. Buprestis 145 
Leptia Dejean 78, 136 
Iherminieri Chevrolat. Bupres- 
tis 154 
lineata Fabricius. Buprestis 152 
longipes (Say). Melanophila.. 173 
luteosignata Mannerheim. Me- 
lanophila 171 
maculativentris Say. Buprestis 155 
maculipennis Gory. Buprestis. 145 
macuUventris Gemminger and 
Harold. Buprestis 155 
manca LeConte. Dicerca 130 
mannerheimi (Mannerheim) . 
Hilarotes 72 
manni Fisher. Polycesta 17 
marginenotata Chevrolat. Ac- 
maeodera 34 
marmorata (Castelnau and 
Gory). Actenodes 84 
Mastogenius Solier 202 
maura (Castelnau and Gory). 
Buprestis 155 
megacephala Castelnau and 
Gory. Chrysobothris 112 
Melanophila Eschscholtz 170 
Micrasta Kerremans 200 
minuta Kerremans. Leiopleura. 204 
Mixochlorus Waterhouse 160 
montezuma Castelnau and 
Gory. Polycesta 17 
morio (Fabricius) . Melanoph- 
ila 173 
multipunctata (Oliver). Cin- 
yra 140 
Nemaphorus Solier 6 
Neotrachys Obenberger 177 
nigra Waterhouse. Leiopleura. 204 
ni^ncorms Sturm. Buprestis.. 147 
nitidicollis (Castelnau and 
Gory). Hilarotes 70 
nobilis Fabricius. Actenodes 83 
notata (Castelnau and Gory). 
Melanophila 171 
novaeboracensis Fitch. Chalco- 
phora 76 
nupta Casey. Buprestis 151 
obscura Casey. Buprestis 149 
octosignata Waterhouse. Chry- 
sobothris 114 
Odontomus Kirby 91 
olivieri Waterhouse. Polj^cesta- 23 
opaca LeConte. Melanophila. _ 171 
INDEX 
207 
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Oxypterus Kirby 170 
Pachypyga Steinheil 175 
Pachyschelus Solier 204 
Paracinyra Fisher 133 
Paradomorphus Waterhouse 194 
parumpunctata Melsheimer. Di- 
cerca 132 
parvofoveata Fisher. Chryso- 
bothris 116 
pecchiolii (Castelnau and Gory). 
Melanophila 173 
Pelecopselaphus Solier 64 
perfecta Kerremans. Polycesta. 16 
Peronaemis Waterhouse 162 
planata Castelnau and Gory. 
Chrysobothris 103 
plicata Dejean. Chrysobothris. 103 
Polycesta Solier 6 
porcata (Fabricius). Polycesta. 19 
porcata (Herbst). Polycesta.. 25 
posticalis Castelnau and Gory. 
Chrysobothris 103 
Prinophora Dejean 78 
Pristiptera Dej ean 78 
prospera Casey. Buprestis 151 
proxima Waterhouse. Acmaeo- 
dera 36 
Psiloptera Solier 47 
pulcherrima Jacquelin Duval. 
Acmaeodera 42 
pulchra Castelnau and Gory. 
Chrysobothris 107 
pygmaeola Obenberger. Mi- 
crasta 202 
pyropus Kerremans. Halecia.. 82 
quadrata (Buquet). Tetrago- 
noschema 176 
quadricolor Chevrolat. Hale- 
cia 80 
quadrimaculata (Fabricius). 
Chrysobothris 108 
radians (LeConte). Buprestis. 151 
reduda Casey. Buprestis 145 
regularis Castelnau and Gory. 
Actenodes 84 
regularis Waterhouse. Poly- 
cesta 14 
resplendens Thomson. Poly- 
cesta 9 
rotundicollis Castelnau and 
Gory. Chrysobothris 104 
ruficornis (Sturm) . Chrysobo- 
thris 104 
rugosa Mannerheim. Chryso- 
bothris 96 
saturata Casey. Buprestis 154 
scripta Casey. Buprestis 145 
sexfasciata Schaeffer. Chryso- 
bothris 127 
sexviaculata Herbst. Buprestis. 154 
sexnotata (Castelnau and Gory). 
Buprestis. . 155 
sexplagiata (LeConte). Bupres- 
tis 154 
sexpunctata (Fabricius). Chry- 
sobothris 94 
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signata Beaudet Lafarge. Ac- 
tenodes 85 
sobrina Mannerheim. Acte- 
nodes 87 
solieri Thomson. Polycesta.. 12 
splendens (Voet). Chrysobo- 
thris ^ 94 
Slenuris Kirby 129 
straba Chevrolat. Psiloptera. 58 
striata Fabricius. Buprestis 149 
strictus (Linnaeus). Pelecopsela- 
phus 65 
subcylindrica Fisher. Acmaeo- 
dera 30 
subglaber Fisher. Taphrocerus 185 
subsinuata Gory. Anthaxia.. 169 
sulcicoUis Chevrolat. Cinyra. 137 
suturalis Waterhouse. Mixo- 
chlorus 160 
tacomae Casey. Buprestis 151 
Taphrocerus Solier 182 
tenuis Fisher. Taphrocerus.. 184 
tereticolHs (Pallas). Aglaostola 166 
Tetragonoschema Thomas 175 
thomae Chevrolat. Polycesta. 27 
thomae Fisher. Brachys 180 
thomae Kerremans. Chryso- 
bothris 118 
thoracica (Fabricius). Chryso- 
bothris 123 
thoracicus Waterhouse. Pero- 
naemis 163 
timidus Chevrolat. Taphro- 
cerus 191 
torquata (Dalman). Psiloptera 51 
Trachypteris Kirby 170 
Trachys Fabricius 177 
tranquebarica (Gmelin). Chry- 
sobothris 96 
tuberculata Castelnau and 
Gory. Dicerca 130 
tumida Chevrolat. Chryso- 
bothris r. . _ 99 
uniformis Waterhouse. Mas- 
togenius 203 
variolosa (Fabricius). Psilop- 
tera 50 
velasco Wickham. Polycesta.. 12 
venusta CiLsey. Buprestis 151 
verecunda Chevrolat. Halecia. 79 
villosa (LeConte). Buprestis.. 151 
virginica (Gmelin). Chalcop- 
hora 76 
virginiensis (Drury). Chal- 
cophora 76 
viridiaurea (Schonherr). Psilop- 
tera 49 
viridifasciata Chevrolat. Ac- 
tenodes 84 
viridimaculata Fisher. Para- 
cinyra 134 
wickhami Fisher. Acmaeodera. 44 
wolcotti Fisher. Chrysobo- 
thris 119 
wurtembergi Mannerheim. Psil- 
optera 54