NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES — FISHER 343 



nearly to base of pronotum ; segment 1 elongate, as long as following 

 three segments united ; segments 2 and 3 globose ; segment 4 obconic, 

 slightly longer than 3 ; segments 5-11 not compact more or less trian- 

 gular, distinctly wider than long, and subequal in length and width 

 to one another. 



Pronotum twice as wide as long, distinctly narrower at apex than 

 at base, widest at base; sides arcuately converging from bases to 

 apices, the margins narrow and visible anteriorly from above; disk 

 slightly convex, narrowly, transversely depressed on each side along 

 anterior margin, broadly flattened toward sides, with a broad, rather 

 deep, median, triangular depression; surface rather densely, deeply 

 punctate, the punctures rather fine at middle becoming coarser and 

 deeper toward sides, and sparsely clothed with rather long, erect, 

 brownish hairs. 



Elytra slightly convex, flattened on disk, at base subequal in width 

 to pronotum at base ; sides converging from bases to tips, which are 

 conjointly broadly rounded ; lateral margins finely serrate near apices. 

 Surface striately punctate, the punctures in the striae small, and 

 separated from one another by about their own widths; interstrial 

 spaces on sutural regions slightly convex, and twice as wide as the 

 strial punctures, wider toward sides, sparsely, finely, regularly punc- 

 tate, with a rather long, fine erect, brownish hair arising from each 

 puncture. 



Abdomen beneath sparsely, finely punctate, sparsely clothed with 

 long, fine, erect and recumbent, white hairs; intervals smooth; last 

 visible sternite broadly rounded at apex, without a subapical carina. 

 Prosternum coarsely, rather sparsely, deeply punctate at middle, 

 coarsely, confluently ocellate-punctate at sides, sparsely clothed with 

 short, fine, erect, white hairs ; anterior margin sinuate, with two dis- 

 tinct, obtusely rounded, slightly produced lobes near the middle. 



Length T.5-11.5 mm., width 2.6-4.5 mm. 



Type locality. — ^Maracaibo, Venezuela. 



Type arid paratypes. — U.S.N.M. No. 58794. 



Described from nine specimens (one type). The type and six 

 paratypes were collected at the type locality ; one paratype from the 

 Mason Collection was collected July 11, 1920, at the Cartagena chap- 

 arral, Bolivar, Colombia; and one paratype was collected May 13, 

 1938, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, in "box cuttings" from Caracas, Vene- 

 zuela. 



This species belongs to Horn's Sinuatae group. It is allied to 

 Acmaeodera fiavoinarginata Gray, but it differs from that species 

 in having the lateral margins of the pronotum narrow, scarcely vis- 

 ible from above, and not narrowed near the posterior angles, with 

 the surface strongly shining, finely punctured at the middle, and with 



