ART. 7 BUPRESTID BEETLES FROM SIBERIA FISHER 7 



pubescence toward the sides. Scutellum strongly transversely cari- 

 nate, the carina acute on the top; sides parallel anteriorly, and 

 strongly arcuately attenuate posteriorly to the apex, which is acute; 

 surface finely, densely granulose. 



Elytra about as wide as anterior part of pronotum at base, and 

 five times as long as it; sides parallel for a short distance behind 

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

 ately rounded behind middle, then obliquely attenuate to the tips, 

 which are separately feebly broadly rounded or subtruncate, and 

 finely, irregularly dentate; disk slightly flattened, and each elytron 

 with a broad, deep basal depression, and with a broad, obsolete longi- 

 tudinal depression along the suture, which is scarcely elevated pos- 

 teriorly; surface coarsely and densely imbricate punctate. 



Abdomen with the sides broadly exposed above, and beneath finely, 

 sparsely punctate, and more or less transversely striolate, sparsely 

 clothed with short recumbent cinereous hairs, and with the intervals 

 smooth; first segment convex at middle, and with a broad shallow 

 depression on each side; last segment rather narrowly rounded at 

 apex, with a shallow arcuate emargination at the middle; pygidium 

 not longitudinally carinate. Prosternum coarsely, densely scabrous, 

 sparsely clothed with short semierect cinereous pubescence, and the 

 intervals obsoletely granulose; prosternal lobe large, broadly rounded 

 in front, broadly arcuately emarginate at middle, and strongly de- 

 clivous; prosternal process flat, the sides parallel to behind the coxal 

 cavities, then strongly attenuate to the tip, which is rather acute. 

 Femora slightly flattened and not armed with teeth on the inner 

 margin. Tibiae slender, straight, and not mucronate at apex. Pos- 

 terior tarsi much shorter than the tibiae, and the first joint about as 

 long as the following three joints united. Tarsal claws cleft at 

 middle, the inner tooth broad, about one-half as long as the outer 

 tooth, and not turned inward (claws on middle and posterior tarsi 

 missing) . 



Male. — Dift'ers from the female in being smaller, more slender, head 

 without a depression on the front, and the epistoma not as distinctly 

 and broadly emarginate in front, elytra more convex and scarcely 

 depressed along the suture, and the last abdominal segment more 

 deeply emarginate at apex. 



Length, 4.75-6 mm.; width, 1.5-2 mm. 



Type locality. — Vladivostok, Siberia. 



Type and allotype.— Qs.i. No. 27563, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two specimens, male and female, both collected at 

 the type locality during 1923 by V. Prinada. 



