NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES — FISHER 345 



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

 Presternum coarsely, sparsely, deeply punctate at middle, coarsely, 

 shallowly ocellate-punctate at sides, sparsely clothed with short, fine, 

 recumbent, white hairs ; anterior margin sinuate, with two indistinct, 

 obtusely rounded, slightly produced lobes near the middle. 



Length 7.5 mm., width 2.25 mm. 



Type locality. — Caracas, Venezuela. 



Type.—\J. S. N. M. No. 58795. 



Described from a single specimen collected May 13, 1938, at San 

 Juan, Puerto Rico, in "box cuttings" from Caracas, Venezuela. 



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

 Acmaeodera meridionalis Kerremans, but it diffei^ from that species 

 in being more cylindrical and in having the pronotum widest at the 

 middle, with the sides regularly rounded, the sides of the elytra con- 

 verging from the bases to the apices, the strial punctures on the 

 elytra finer, and the interstrial spaces on the sutural regions about 

 three times as wide as the strial punctures, and the abdominal ster- 

 nites finely and sparsely punctured. 



ACMAEODERA DANFORTHI, new species 



Narrowly elongate, subcylindrical, slightly convex above, broadly 

 rounded in front, strongly narrowed posteriorly, strongly shining, 

 black, with a distinct cupreous or purplish tinge above and a feeble 

 aeneous tinge beneath, and ornamented with yellow markings as 

 follows. A round, median spot on head at vertex, a large triangular 

 spot on each side of pronotum covering basal half, extending along 

 base to near middle and obliquely forward to near apical angle, the 

 spot not extending to base or lateral margin, and each elytron with 

 three broad, transverse lateral spots (one at basal fourth, one at 

 middle, and one at apical third), and an elongate, triangular spot 

 at apex, the spots extending from lateral margin to near sutural 

 margin. 



Head nearly flat in front, coarsely, deeply, confluently punctate, 

 and with a few short, erect, inconspicuous hairs; clypeus broadly, 

 arcuately emarginate in front. Antenna extending to basal fourth 

 of pronotum; segment 1 elongate, as long as following three seg- 

 ments united ; segment 2 globose ; segments 3 and 4 narrower, slightly 

 longer than wide, and subequal in length to each other, the fourth 

 slightly triangular; segments 5-10 compact, twice as wide as long; 

 segment 11 oblong. 



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

 at base, widest at basal third ; sides broadly rounded, more obliquely 

 anteriorly, with the margins narrowly flattened and visible from 

 above; disk moderately convex, narrowly, transversely depressed 



