ABT. 7. NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FISHER. 13 



Described from a unique specimen in the United States National 

 Museum collection labeled " Ace. No. 905, Bur. Agri., P. I., collected 

 by C. R. Jones," without any definite locality given. 



ANTHAXIA ATTENUATA, new species. 



Elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, shining blackish oliva- 

 ceous, with the head, front and sides of pronotum, and a narrow 

 band along base of elytra of a bright green color, beneath piceous 

 with a strong brassy tinge, sparsely clothed with inconspicuous re- 

 cumbent cinereous hairs ; legs greenish. 



Head small, not as wide as pronotum at anterior margin ; front flat 

 and feebly concave, the distance between the eyes equal to about two 

 times the diameter of the eye when viewed from the front ; surface 

 densely and coarsely ocellate-punctate ; eyes small and not project- 

 ing; epistoma small with the anterior margin broadly arcuately 

 emarginate. Pronotum transverse, about one and one-half times as 

 wide as long, front and base about equal in width, widest at middle ; 

 lateral margin strongly, regularly arcuate; anterior margin deeply, 

 arcuately emarginate with scarcely any median lobe; base truncate; 

 surface with a broad, shallow depression in front of posterior angles, 

 densely and coarsely ocellate-punctate, similar to that of the head 

 but not quite as deeply impressed. Scutellum ogival in shape, base 

 truncate, feebly convex and finely punctate. Elytra about equal in 

 width to the pronotum at base, strongly attenuate to the tips, which 

 are separately, narrowly rounded, not covering the sides of abdomen 

 which is broadly visible from above, moderately convex; each ely- 

 tron with a deep transverse groove situated a little distance below 

 the base, a narrow, very deep one between the humerus and lateral 

 margin, a broad, obsolete one behind the humerus and a similar one 

 at basal third along suture ; humeri rather prominent ; surface finely, 

 very densely rugose and sparsely clothed with very short, incon- 

 spicuous cinereous pubescence. Abdomen beneath finely ocellate- 

 punctate; last segment broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum finely 

 ocellate-punctate; prosternal process rather wide and flat. 



Length, 3.9 mm. ; width, 1.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Cuernos Mountains, Negros, Philippine Islands. 



7'7/pe._Cat. No. 246C7, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single specimen collected by Prof. C. F. Baker 

 (Baker No. 8348) in the Cuernos Mountains, Negros, Philippine 

 Islands. 



ANTHAXIA MINDANAOENSIS, new species. 



Elongate, nearly parallel, dull, piceous with a strong bronzy tinge; 

 posterior angles of pronotum of a reddish coppery color, a narrow 

 green band at base on inner half of elytra and a sim.ilar band behind 



