NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES — FISHER 347 



Head shallowly, broadly, longitudinally depressed, with a narrow, 

 longitudinal groove on occiput, rather densely, coarsely, irregularly 

 punctate. Antenna extending to base of pronotum ; segments 3 to 11 

 narrowly elongate-triangular. 



Pronotum wider than long, slightly narrower at apex than at base ; 

 sides vaguely narrowed from bases to apices, slightly divergent at 

 posterior angles ; base slightly sinuate ; disk more or less uneven, with 

 an inconspicuous round gibbosity on each side toward apical angle; 

 surface rather densely, finely, uniformly punctate, the punctures well 

 separated; prescutellar fovea indistinct. Scutellum impunctate, 

 transversely oval, nearly twice as wide as long. 



Elytra at base slightly wider than pronotum ; sides nearly parallel 

 from bases to behind middles, then strongly narrowed to tips, which 

 are separately narrowly rounded and each armed with a short spine ; 

 disk feebly striate posteriorly, uneven toward sides, broadly depressed 

 along lateral margins behind humeri ; surface finely, rather densely, 

 irregularly punctate. 



Body beneath rather densely, finely, uniformly punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with very short, recumbent, inconspicuous hairs; last visible 

 abdominal sternite broadly, feebly, transversely sinuate at apex, and 

 deeply grooved along apical margin. 



Length 13-14.5 mm., width 4r-4.75 mm. 



Type locality. — Bluefields, Nicaragua. 



Type and paratypes.—V.S.^M. No. 58797. 



Described from three specimens ( one type) . The type was collected 

 at the type locality, April 20, 1909, by F. Knab, and the two paratypes 

 were collected at Punta Patuca, Honduras, April 11, 1909, by the same 

 collector. 



This species is closely allied to Euplectalecia heltii (Saunders), but 

 it differs from that species in being more slender, and of a brighter 

 green color, and in having the last visible abdominal sternite broadly 

 and transversely sinuate at the apex. The two paratypes are slightly 

 more greenish on the dorsal surface than the type. 



Genus PERONAEMIS Waterhouse 



PERONAEMIS CUPRICOLLIS, new species 



Broadly agriliform, broadly rounded in front, strongly narrowed 

 posteriorly, glabrous, and rather strongly shining; head green, median 

 part with a distinct reddish-purple tinge in different lights; pronotum 

 reddish cupreous, with anterior and lateral margins, and a large spot 

 at posterior angles greenish; elytra olivaceous-green, with distinct 

 purplish reflections in different lights; body beneath uniformly 

 bronzy green, with a distinct purplish tinge, the tarsi slightly more 

 bluish orreen. 



