ART. 27 NEW BUPEESTID BEETLES FISHEE 9 



AGRILUS MEGERLEI, new species 



Male. — Elongate, slightly flattened above, strongly shining, uni- 

 formly olivaceous-green above and beneath. 



Head with the front rather narrow, slightly convex, feebly nar- 

 rower at top than at bottom, lateral margins feebly, obliquely con- 

 verging from bottom to top, and with a shallow, longitudinal depres- 

 sion extending from occiput to epistoma, the depression becoming 

 triangular on lower half of front; surface coarsely, irregularly, but 

 not deeply rugose, sparsely, coarsely punctate, with a small, smooth 

 spot on each side of middle near bottom, and sparsely clothed with 

 short, recumbent, whitish hairs; epistoma rather strongly transverse 

 between the antennae, slightly elevated, broadly, arcuately emargi- 

 nate in front, and the surface deeply depressed; antenna short, ser- 

 rate from the fourth joint, the outer joints triangular, and about as 

 long as wide; eyes large, equally rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum about one fourth wider than long, about equal in width 

 at base and apex, and widest at apical fourth; sides nearly parallel 

 from apical angles to posterior angles, which are rectangular; when 

 viewed from the side the marginal carina feebly sinuate, the sub- 

 marginal carina straight, the two carinae narrowly separated an- 

 teriorly but joined behind the middle ; anterior margin strongly sin- 

 uate, with the median lobe strongly produced, and broadly rounded ; 

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

 lobe slightly produced and broadly rounded ; disk moderately convex 

 anteriorly, feebly, transversely flattened on basal half, with a deep 

 depression on each side extending obliquely backward from the lat- 

 eral margin at apical third to the flattened basal area, and with a 

 round swelling, which is slightly carinate, near the posterior angles ; 

 surface feebly, irregularly rugose, the rugae shallow, widely sep- 

 arated, and more or less concentric on the convex area, sparsely, 

 rather coarsely punctate between the rugae, and sparsely clothed with 

 short, semierect, inconspicuous hairs. Scutellum without a trans- 

 verse 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, 

 broadly, arcuately constricted in front of middle, arcuately ex- 

 panded behind middle, then arcuately narrowed to the tips, which 

 are separately narrowly rounded and finely serrulate ; sides of abdo- 

 men not exposed above ; disk rather strongly flattened along sutural 

 margins, with a vague, longitudinal costa on each elytron at middle, 

 the sutural margins scarcely elevated, and with broad, deep, basal 

 depressions ; surface finely, densely imbricate-punctate, and sparsely, 

 uniformly clothed with short, semierect, yellowish hairs. 



