PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



issued 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Vol. 93 Washington: 1943 No. 3167 



NEW SPECIES OF BTJPKESTID BEETLES OF THE GENUS 

 AGRILUS FROM TRINIDAD 



By W. S. Fisher 



A small collection of Agrilus beetles, reported as being the prey of 

 a crabronid wasp in Trinidad, British West Indies, was received from 

 E. McC. Callan for identification. These specimens have been com- 

 pared with the descriptions of all the species described from the Gui- 

 anas, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, the Canal Zone, and Costa Rica, 

 and since no species of Agrilus have been described from Trinidad, 

 and none of the specimens received seem to be any of the species de- 

 scribed from the localities listed above, they are here described as new. 



Genus AGRILUS Curtis 



AGKILUS CALLANI, new species 



Male. — Elongate, slender, subcylindrical, moderately shining; head 

 in front green, bronzy brown on occiput ; pronotum dark green on disk, 

 with a distinct purplish tinge, and narrowly bronzy along lateral mar- 

 gins ; scutellum bronzy brown ; elytra black, with a faint purplish tinge 

 and ornamented with white pubescent spots; body beneath black, with 

 a feeble bronzy tinge, and femora slightly greenish. 



Head with front broad, wider at top than at bottom, without distinct 

 median depression; sides parallel posteriorly, strongly converging an- 

 teriorly ; surface nearly glabrous, coarsely, shallowly, confluently punc- 

 tate, and densely granulose on front and vertex, longitudinally costate 

 on occiput; clypeus narrow between antennae, deeply, arcuately emar- 

 ginate in front ; antenna short, extending to apical third of pronotum, 

 serrate from fourth segment. 



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