NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FROM BORNEO AND THE 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By W. S. Fisher, 

 Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 



This paper is based on part of a collection of Buprestidae re- 

 ceived from Prof. Charles Fuller Baker, College of Agriculture, 

 University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Philippine Islands, to- 

 gether with the material from that region in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum. The bulk of the material has 

 been collected by Professor Baker, and much credit is due him for his 

 energetic collecting and additions to our knowledge of the insect 

 fauna of these islands. In working over this material, a number of 

 new species and one new genus have been found ; these are described 

 in the present paper. The Tribe Agrilini has been treated more 

 fully in a previous paper which has been published in the Philippine 

 Journal of Science.^ 



Through the kindness of Professor Baker, all the types of the new 

 species here described have been placed in the Collection of the 

 United States National Museum. 



PHRIXIA ALBOMACULATA, new species. 



Male. — Form elongate, subcylindrical, uniformly shining green 

 above with a slight golden reflection; each elytron with seven small 

 round white deciduous pubescent areas arranged as follows: Four 

 on the third interval, the first at the basal fourth, second at middle, 

 third at apical fourth, and a more elongate one a short distance from 

 the apex, also a feebly defined one near the humeral angle and two 

 others on the seventh interval, slightly in advance of the inner ones 

 on the third intervals at middle and apical fourth. Beneath golden 

 green, becoming more cupreous on the prosternum. 



Head as wide as pronotum, nearly flat, coarsely and densely punc- 

 tate, the punctures becoming somewhat elongate on the front, feebly 

 longitudinally grooved on occiput; epistoma not separated from 

 front, deeply depressed and emarginate at middle. Pronotum 

 strongly convex, one-fourth wider than long ; sides parallel, without 

 marginal carina except for a short smooth line at posterior angles; 



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