NEW SPECIES OF BUPRESTID BEETLES FROM MEXICO 

 AND CENTRAL AMERICA 



By W. S. Fisher 



Associate Entomologist, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of 



Agriculture 



This paper is the result of a study of the beetles of the family 

 Buprestidae from Mexico and Central America found in the collec- 

 tion of the United States National Museum, together with a large 

 number received for identification from H, E. Hinton, of Berkeley, 

 Calif. 



Thirty species of eight genera are herein described as new, and 

 through the kindness of Mr. Hinton the type specimens have been 

 placed in the collection of the United States National Museum. 



COLOBOGASTER AUREOVIRmiS, new species 



Female. — Broadly oblong, feebly narrowed in front and behind, 

 and feebly convex; head and antennae aureo-virideous, the latter 

 slightly aeneous; pronotum, scutellum, and elytra aureo-virideous, 

 with a distinct cupreous tinge in certain lights; beneath aureo- 

 virideous, with the tarsal lobes and posterior margin of the second, 

 third, and fourth abdominal segments feebly bluish black. 



Head with the front rather flat, uneven, broadly, longitudinally 

 depressed on the front, the depression deeper between the antennal 

 cavities and near the vertex, where there is a vague heart-shaped 

 elevation, and with a narrow, longitudinal groove on the occiput; 

 surface coarsely, irregularly, and more or less confluently punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with inconspicuous hairs, and the intervals finely, 

 densely granulose; epistoma vaguely, broadly, arcuately emarginate 

 in front. 



Pronotum moderately, uniformly convex, distinctly narrower at 

 apex than at base, widest near base, with a round, vague depression 

 on each side of middle, and a more distinct depression on each side 

 near posterior angle; sides feebly sinuate, strongly, obliquely ex- 

 panded from apical angles to near base, then obliquely narrowed 

 to the posterior angles, which are acute, but not projecting beyond 

 the elvtra; anterior margin transversely truncate; base broadly. 



No. 2968.— Proceedings U.S. National Museum, Vol. 82, Art. 27 



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