AKT. 27 NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FISHER 7 



This species resembles illectus Fall, but it differs from that species 

 in having the head more deeply depressed on the occiput, the pro- 

 notum more deeply, coarsely rugose, not longitudinally depressed at 

 the middle, and in having the prehumeral carina replaced by an 

 oblong swelling. 



AGRILUS HINTONI, new species 



Female. — Eobust and strongly flattened above ; head aureo-aeneous, 

 becoming reddish purple on occiput; pronotum and scutellum red- 

 dish purple, with a feeble bluish tinge and strongly shining; elytra 

 black, opaque; beneath black, rather strongly shining. 



Head with the front rather wide, flat, about equal in width at 

 top and bottom, lateral margins parallel, with a broad, shallow, 

 longitudinal depression extending from epistoma to occiput, and 

 with a more or less distinct, smooth, V-shaped carina on the front; 

 surface rather densely, coarsely, irregularly punctate, becoming 

 transversely rugose on occiput, and sparsely clothed with moderately 

 long, recumbent, yellow hairs ; epistoma scarcely transverse between 

 the antennae, slightly elevated, and broadly, deeply, arcuately 

 emarginate in front; antenna short, serrate from the fourth joint, 

 the outer joints strongly serrate and about as long as wide; eyes 

 large, equally rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum about one third wider than long, slightly narrower at 

 apex than at base, and widest at apical fourth; sides arcuately ex- 

 panded from apical angles to apical fourth, then obliquely narrowed 

 to the posterior angles, which are rectangular; when viewed from 

 the side the marginal carina rather strongly sinuate, the submar- 

 ginal carina feebly sinuate, the two carinae narrowly separated an- 

 teriorly but joined near the base; anterior margin strongly sinuate, 

 with the median lobe rather strongly produced and broadly rounded ; 

 base transversely truncate to the middle of each elytron, with the 

 median lobe strongly produced and very broadly rounded; disk 

 strongly convex anteriorly, broadly depressed on basal half, the 

 depression extending obliquely forward on each side to the apical 

 angle, with a rounded swelling replacing the prehumeral carina 

 near each posterior angle, and with a small, round, deep fovea be- 

 tween the swelling and basal margin ; surface coarsely but not very 

 deeply, irregularly rugose, the rugae concentric on the convex area, 

 finely, sparsely punctate between the rugae, sparsely clothed with 

 short, inconspicuous hairs, and densely clothed in the depressions 

 with long, recumbent, golden-yellow pubescence, which conceals the 

 surface. Scutellum longitudinally depressed, without transverse 

 carina, the surface finely, densely reticulate. 



Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, subequal in width 

 at base and behind middle; sides slightly expanded behind base, 



