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22 SEREICOENIA. 



In Mr. E. Saunders's ' Catalogue of Buprestidae ' the locality against this species is 

 Guadaloupe, but (although it is not an unlikely habitat for the species) I know of no 

 other authority for it. There is a specimen in the British Museum which appears to 

 be marked Chili, but the label is not distinct. M. Chevrolat, in his Coleoptera of 

 Mexico, gives a reference to Griffith's 'Animal Kindgom,' but adds " sine descriptione," 

 which is misleading, as Gray fairly describes the species. 



8. Acmaeodera flavosparsa. (Tab. II. fig. 4.) 



A. cuprince affinis, nigro-senea, nitida, pilosa ; thoraee fortiter punctate, disco concavo, lateribus impressis 

 confertim punctatis; elytris gradatim bene attenuates, dimidio apicali guttis nonnullis notato, fortiter 

 striato-punctatis, latera versus clathrato-punctatis, interstitio quarto sextoque elevatis. 



Long. 5-5| lin. 



Hab. Mexico (Coffin, Mus. Brit.). 



This species comes nearest to A. cuprina, but is of different form and is of a brassy 

 black colour. The head is closely punctured, but has a short smooth line in the 

 middle. The thorax is very broad, broadest at the base, obliquely narrowed anteriorly, 

 deeply excavated in the middle (more so than in A. cuprina), sloping down at the sides, 

 with a round impression near the base ; strongly but not very thickly punctured on the 

 raised parts, very closely punctured at the sides. The elytra are at the base as broad 

 as the thorax, gradually narrowed to the apex, flattened on the disk ; the apical half 

 with numerous orange-yellow spots, which in one specimen partially coalesce and form 

 four irregular patches on the sides; the punctures which form the rows are deep, 

 generally elongate-ovate, not crowded together as. in A. cuprina, but those which would 

 form the fifth and sixth rows and the seventh and eighth unite transversely and form 

 double-sized punctures ; the third interstice is very narrow and interrupted and partly 

 hidden by the wider and elevated fourth interstice ; the fifth interstice is only traceable 

 at the bottom of the large punctures; the sixth is distinct and elevated (but lost 

 posteriorly) ; the seventh is lost in the large punctures ; the eighth is narrow. 



9. Acmaeodera rubronotata. 



Acmaodera rubronotata, Lap. & Gory, Mon. i. p. 5, 1. 1. f. 5\ 



Acmaeodera hamorrhoa, LeConte, Proc. Ac. Phil. 1858, p. 69 2 ; Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, xi. p. 223, 



t. 12. f. 4. 

 Acmaodera stellaris, Spinola ?, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 364. 



Hab. Texas, Laredo 2 . — Mexico, Izucar, Puebla, Cuernavaca, Orizaba (Salle). — 

 "Chili" 1 . 



This species was originally described as from Chili, but no doubt by mistake. 



10. Acmaeodera impluviata. 



Acmeeodera impluviata, Mann. Bull. Mosc. 1837, pt. viii. p. 26 \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca 1 , Tehuantepec (Salle) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 



