ART. 27 NEW BUPEESTID BEETLES — FISHER 19 



This species resembles nigripennis Waterhouse, but it differs from 

 that species in being uniformly black above, and in having each 

 elytron ornamented with a vague, longitudinal, white pubescent 

 vitta. 



AGRILUS PRODIGIOSUS. new species 



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

 moderately shining; head brown, with a vague cupreous tinge; pro- 

 notum aureo-cupreous ; elytra violaceous-black; beneath black, with 

 a vague cupreous tinge. 



Head with the front wide, feebly convex, about equal in width at 

 top and bottom, lateral margins parallel, and vaguely, broadly, longi- 

 tudinally depressed; surface coarsely, rather deeply, confluently 

 rugose, the rugae transverse on occiput, rather densely, coarsely punc- 

 tate between the rugae, and nearly glabrous ; epistoma rather narrow 

 between the antennae, slightly elevated, and deeply but not broadly, 

 arcuately emarginate in front ; antenna rather short, serrate from the 

 fifth joint, the outer joints triangular and about as long as wide; 

 eyes large, oblong, and about equally rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum subequal in length and width, equal in width at base and 

 apex, and widest at middle; sides arcuately rounded from apical 

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

 the side the marginal and submarginal carinae nearly straight, rather 

 widely separated anteriorly, and connected to each other at the base ; 

 anterior margin strongly sinuate, the median lobe strongly produced, 

 and broadly rounded ; base strongly, arcuately emarginate at middle 

 of each elytron, with the median lobe moderately produced and 

 broadly rounded; disk strongly convex, with a rather deep, broad, 

 median depression extending from base to near the anterior margin, 

 and with vague, short, arcuate prehumeral carinae; surface very 

 coarsely, deeply, transversely rugose, the rugae widely separated and 

 more or less interrupted, finely, sparsely punctate between the rugae, 

 and glabrous. Scutellum feebly, transversely carinate, 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 near middle, broadly, arcuately expanded 

 behind middle, then arcuately narrowed to the tips, which are sepa- 

 rately broadly rounded and rather coarsely serrulate; sides of 

 abdomen narrowly exposed above ; disk feebly flattened along sutural 

 margins, which are strongly elevated near apices, and with broad, 

 deep, basal depressions; surface rather coarsely, densely imbricate- 

 punctate, sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, white hairs, which 

 form a more or less distinct vitta along flattened area on each elytron 

 and are uniformly distributed over apical third. 



