NEW SPECIES OF AGRILUS FROM TRINIDAD — FISHER 377 



having the front of the head narrower with the sides strongly con- 

 verging anteriorly, the clypeus narrow between the antennae, and the 

 prosternal process not expanded behind the coxal cavities. 



AGRILUS PRAEDAE, new species 



Female.— Elongate, slender, subcylindrical, strongly shining, glab- 

 rous on dorsal surface, uniformly black, with a faint purplish reflec- 

 tion, except pronotum, which is reddish coppery. 



Head with front broad, wider at top than at bottom, with a vague, 

 broad, median depression; sides slightly sinuate, feebly converging 

 from top to bottom; surface densely granulose, coarsely, vaguely 

 punctate; clypeus rather narrow between antennae, shallowly, 

 arcuately emarginate in front; antenna short, extending slightly be- 

 yond apex of pronotum, separate from fourth segment. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, subequal in width at base and 

 apex, widest near apex; sides vaguely arcuate anteriorly, slightly, 

 obliquely converging posteriorly; posterior angles rectangular; mar- 

 ginal carina straight, submarginal carina short, the two carinae par- 

 allel and widely separated anteriorly, united at middle ; anterior mar- 

 gin strongly sinuate, median lobe strongly produced and broadly 

 rounded ; base arcuately emarginate on each side, median lobe slightly 

 produced, subtruncate or vaguely emarginate in front of scutellum; 

 disk broadly, shallowly, transversely depressed along base, more deeply, 

 broadly depressed at middle along lateral margins, vaguely, trans- 

 versely flattened at middle behind anterior margin, but without longi- 

 tudinal, median depressions or prehumeral carinae; surface densely, 

 finely granulose, finely, transversely rugose on disk, indistinctly punc- 

 tate between rugae. Scutellum strongly, transversely carinate. 



Elytra broadly, shallowly constricted in front of middle; tips sep- 

 arately broadly rounded and finely dentate ; surface slightly flattened, 

 densely, finely granulose, coarsely, densely imbricate-punctate. 



Abdomen broadly exposed above, strongly convex beneath ; surface 

 densely, finely granulose, indistinctly punctate, sparsely, uniformly 

 clothed with very short, recumbent, inconspicuous hairs; suture be- 

 tween first and second sternites vaguely indicated near middle. Pro- 

 sternum densely granulose, coarsely, shallowly punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with very short, erect, inconspicuous hairs; prosternal lobe 

 long, broadly rounded in front; prosternal process broad, sides 

 obliquely converging to apex, which is broadly rounded, with an acute, 

 median tooth. Tarsal claws similar on all feet, cleft near middle, 

 inner tooth slightly shorter than outer one, turned inward, touching 

 tooth on opposite side. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Length 5.6-G mm., width 1.4 mm. 



