AUT. 27 NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES — FISHER 47 



lateral margins feebly serrate; humeri rather strongly developed; 

 surface more or less rugose on basal halves, rather densely, coarsely, 

 irregularly punctate, each elytron with a broad, deep depression along 

 the lateral margin behind the humerus, and with a broad, deep, 

 basal depression. 



Abdomen beneath finely, densely reticulate, sparsely, finely punc- 

 tate, nearly glabrous; last segment broadly rounded, feebly sinuate, 

 narrowly truncate at apex. Prosternum glabrous, feebly reticulate, 

 vaguely punctate, the anterior margin elevated at middle; prosternal 

 process long, wide, sparsely, coarsely punctate, the sides arcuately 

 narrowed to the apex, which is broadly rounded. Metasternum 

 deeply, angularly emarginate in front. 



Length, 3.75 mm ; width, 1.4 mm. 



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



ry^oe.— U.S.N.M. No. 45579. 



Remarks. — Described from a unique female collected at the type 

 locality at an altitude of 3,960 feet, during July 1932, by H. E. 

 Hinton. 



This species resembles obtusa Waterhouse, but it differs from 

 that species in being slenderer and in having the pronotum more 

 deeply depressed along the base and the elytra more coarsely punc- 

 tured and more or less rugose. 



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