ART. 27 ITEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FISHER 37 



This species is allied to flnitimus Obenberger, but it differs from 

 that species in having the head distinctly depressed in front, the 

 pronotum widest at the basal third, with the sides strongly, arcu- 

 ately narrowed near the posterior angles, where the surface is 

 deeply depressed. 



BRACHYS HINTONI, new species 



Male. — Broadly cuneiform, twice as long as wide, broadly rounded 

 in front, more acuminate posteriorly, moderately shining, and 

 sparsely pubescent, the pubescence pale yellow and forming more 

 or less distinct designs on the elytra; above dark brown, with a 

 more or less distinct aeneous and cupreous reflection in certain 

 lights ; beneath piceous, with a distinct aeneous tinge. 



Head strongly flattened and vaguely depressed in front, without 

 gibbosities on the vertex, but with a narrow, longitudinal groove on 

 the front, the groove becoming obsolete on the occiput and behind 

 the epistoma; surface vaguely granulose, finely, sparsely, irregu- 

 larly punctate, and sparsely, irregularly clothed with long, recum- 

 bent, golden-yellow hairs ; epistoma transverse between the antennal 

 cavities, feebly elevated, but not transversely carinate in front; 



Pronotum moderately convex, nearly two and one half times as 

 wide as long at middle, distinctly narrower at apex than at base, 

 and widest at base; sides obliquely narrowed from base to apical 

 angles ; when viewed from the side the lateral margin nearly straight 

 anteriorly, arcuately sinuate near the posterior angle for the recep- 

 tion of the anterior leg ; anterior margin transversely truncate ; base 

 transversely truncate to middle of each elytron, where it is feebly, 

 arcuately emarginate, then turning obliquely backward to the scutel- 

 lum, in front of which it is feebly, arcuately emarginate; posterior 

 angles narrowly rounded; disk feebly, narrowly, transversely de- 

 pressed behind anterior margin, broadly, transversely concave on 

 basal half, the concavity extending obliquely forward to the apical 

 angles, causing the antero-median part of the disk to be regularly 

 convex, but without a distinct carina near posterior angles; surface 

 densely, obsoletely reticulate, coarsely, densely ocellate-punctate in 

 the depressions, sparsely, irregularly clothed with long, recumbent, 

 yellowish hairs. Scutellum triangular, feebly wider than long, the 

 anterior margin feebly rounded, the surface vaguely reticulate. 



Elytra as wide as pronotum at base ; humeral angles subrectangu- 

 lar; sides nearly parallel to middle (feebly, arcuately constricted at 

 basal fourth), then obliquely narrowed to the tips, which are sepa- 

 rately narrowly rounded, with the lateral margins entire; disk with 

 distinct lateral carinae, which are sinuate, strongly elevated, and 

 extend from humeral angles to near the apices, a broad depression 

 on each side behind the humeral angle, and with broad, moderately 



