ART. 27 NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FISHER 1 1 



tate, with a more or less distinct, small, smooth spot on each side of 

 middle near bottom, and sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, 

 white hairs; epistoma slightly transverse between the antennae, 

 slightly elevated, broadly, feebly, arciiately emarginate in front, and 

 the surface feebly depressed ; antenna short, serrate from the fourth 

 joint, and the outer joints transverse; eyes large, and about equally 

 rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum about two fifths wider than long, subequal in width at 

 base and apex, and widest at apical third; sides feebly, arcuately 

 rounded from apical angles to posterior angles, which are rectan- 

 gular; when viewed from the side the marginal carina feebW sin- 

 uate, the submarginal carina straight, the two carinae narrowly sep- 

 arated anteriorly but joined behind the middle; anterior margin 

 strongly sinuate, with the median lobe strongly produced and 

 broadly rounded; base transversely truncate to middle of each ely- 

 tron, with the median lobe slightly produced and broadly rounded; 

 disk moderately convex anteriorly, feebly, transversely flattened on 

 basal half, with a broad, moderately deep depression on each side 

 extending obliquely backward from the lateral margin at apical 

 third to the flattened basal area, and with a round swelling replac- 

 ing the prehumeral carina near each posterior angle ; surface feebly, 

 irregularly rugose, the rugae shallow, widely separated, and more 

 or less concentric on the convex area, sparsely, rather coarsely punc- 

 tate between the rugae, and sparsely clothed with short, semierect, 

 inconspicuous hairs. Scutellum without a transverse carina, the 

 surface finely, densely reticulate. 



Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, narrower at base 

 than at apical fourth; sides feebly expanded behind the base, 

 broadly, arcuately constricted in front of middle, strongly, arcu- 

 ately expanded behind middle, then arcuately narrowed to the tips, 

 which are separately narrowly rounded and finely serrulate; sides 

 of abdomen not exposed above ; disk rather strongly flattened along 

 sutural margins, which are scarcely elevated, with a vague, longi- 

 tudinal costa on each elytron at middle, and with broad, deep, basal 

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

 uniformly clothed with distinct, short, semierect, white hairs. 



Abdomen beneath vaguely granulose, lather densely marked with 

 fine, transverse, crenulate lines, somewhat scabrous at sides of basal 

 segments, finely, rather denselj^ punctate, and sparsely, uniformly 

 clothed with short, recumbent, white hairs; first segment convex at 

 middle, suture between first and second segments not distinct at 

 the sides; last segment broadly rounded at apex; vertical portions 

 of segments not cons^Dicuously pubescent; pygidium densely, coarsely 

 punctate, without a projecting carina at apex. Prosternum feebly 

 rugose, sparsely, coarsely punctate, and sparsely clothed with short, 



