ART. 7. NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES — FISHEK. 9 



BELIONOTA RUBRIVENTRIS, new species. 



Female. — Form robust, uniformly dark aeneous above, the pro- 

 notum and scutellum slightly more cupereous with the posterior 

 angles of the former fiery red. Beneath with the median parts fiery 

 red, forming triangular areas at the base of the last three abdominal 

 segments, the area becoming less distinct on the last segment and 

 divided into two small acute triangular spots on the lateral margin 

 of the median groove ; sides of prosternum and abdominal segments 

 broadly aeneous with a violaceous reflection, becoming steel-blue 

 along apical margin of the abdominal segments; femora and tibiae 

 aeneous, the latter becoming greenish toward the apex. 



Head with the front triangular, feebly convex, very coarsely and 

 rather closely punctate, the punctures becoming confluent anteriorly, 

 and finer and more closely placed along the margin of the eyes where 

 the surface is also sparsely clothed with a series of rather long re- 

 cumbent hairs ; inner margin of antennal cavities strongly elevated ; 

 occiput longitudinally carinate ; vertex with a moderately deep, broad 

 depression at the middle; epistoma feebly bisinuate along anterior 

 margin, the median tooth feebly developed. Pronotum feebly con- 

 vex, nearly two times as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front 

 than behind ; sides nearly parallel to middle, then obliquely narrowed 

 to anterior angles ; posterior angles rectangular and not protruding ; 

 anterior margin arcuately emarginate; posterior margin bisinuate, 

 the median lobe feebly emarginate in front of scutellum; surface 

 coarsely and rather densely punctate, the punctures becoming coarser 

 and confluent along lateral margin, with a broad oblique depression 

 on each side, the bottom of which is strongly strigose. Scutellum tri- 

 angular, elongate, about one-fifth as long as elytra, the apex very 

 acute; surface smooth without trace of punctures. Elytra feebly 

 convex, distinctly wider than pronotum at base, and more than three 

 times as long, broadly rounded at humeral angles; sides parallel to 

 middle, then strongly attenuate to the apex, which is acutely rounded, 

 with a sharp tooth at the sutural angle, lateral margin smooth, with- 

 out serration posteriorly ; surface coarsely and densely punctate, the 

 punctures becoming denser and somewhat confluent along the lateral 

 margin ; each elytron Avith four smooth, feebly elevated costae, as fol- 

 lows : The first parallel to suture and extending from base to apex ; 

 second very arcuate, extending from behind humerus to apical third ; 

 third sinuate and reaching from behind the humerus near lateral 

 margin to the apical sixth; and the fourth parallel to the lateral 

 margin beginning near the middle and joining it near the apex. 

 Prosternum flat along anterior margin, coarsely and sparsely punc- 

 tate, the punctures becoming transversely elongate along front mar- 



