ART. 27 NEW BUPRESTID .BEETLES FISHER 17 



inner tooth broad, distinctly shorter than outer one, and not turned 

 inward. 



Length, 4—1.5 mm; width, 1-1.25 mm. 



Type locality. — Tejupilco, Mexico, D.F. 



r2//?6.— U.S.N.M. No. 49559. 



Paratype. — In the H. E. Hinton collection, 



ReTnar'ks. — Described from two females (one type) collected at 

 the type locality at an altitude of 3,960 feet, during July 19:52. by 

 H. E. Hinton. 



This species is allied to proximulus Fisher, but it differs from that 

 species in having the humeral angles of the elytra cupreous, the pre- 

 humeral carinae on the pronotum feebly elevated, and the prosternal 

 lobe deeply emarginate at the middle and forming an arcuate lobe 

 on each side. The paratype differs slightl}' from the type in having 

 the pronotum more deeply, longitudinally depressed. 



AGRILUS PICEOLUS, new species 



Male. — Elongate, slender, rather strongly flattened above, and 

 rather strongly shining; head aeneo-virideous, becoming cupreous 

 on the occiput; pronotum, elytra, and beneath black, with a vague 

 purplish reflection in certain lights, each elj^tron ornamented with a 

 vague, whitish pubescent vitta, extending along the sutural margin 

 from basal depression to apex. 



Head with the front rather narrow, feebly convex, slightly wider 

 at top than at the bottom, lateral margins feebly, arcuately con- 

 stricted on lower half, and without distinct depressions; surface 

 coarsely, deeply, irregrdarly rugose, sparsely, finely punctate between 

 the rugae, and sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, white hairs 

 behind the epistoma; epistoma narrow between the antennae, not 

 elevated, and deeply but not broadly, arcuately emarginate in front ; 

 antenna rather short, serrate from the fourth joint, the outer joints 

 triangular and about as long as wide; eyes large, strongly oblong, 

 and about equally rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, about equal in width at base 

 and apex, and widest in front of middle; sides strongly, arcuately 

 rounded anteriorly, more obliquely narrowed posteriorly to the 

 posterior angles, which are rather acute ; when viewed from the side 

 the marginal and submarginal carinae strongly sinuate, narrowly 

 separated anteriorly, and connected to each other behind the middle ; 

 anterior margin strongly sinuate, the median lobe moderately pro- 

 duced and broadly rounded ; base strongly, arcuately emarginate at 

 middle of each elytron, with the median lobe rather strongly pro- 

 duced and broadly rounded ; disk moderately convex, feebly, trans- 

 versely depressed on basal half, the depression extending on each 

 side along lateral margin, but becoming narrower toward apical 



17550i— 33 2 



