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Vol. 99 Washington : 1949 No. 3240 



NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FROM MEXICO, CENTRAL 

 AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE WEST INDIES 



By W. S. Fisher 



A STUDY lias been made of new buprestid beetles that have accumu- 

 lated in the collection of the United States National Museum, Speci- 

 mens have been received at various times for identification, many of 

 which are undescribed forms, and they are described in this paper so 

 that names will be available for use in economic studies. Twenty 

 species in eight genera are herein described as new. 



Genus POLYCESTA Solier 



POLYCESTA CAMPOSI, new species 



Female. — Elongate, broadly rounded in front and behind, mod- 

 erately convex above, uniformly black, with distinct greenish or 

 purplish reflections in different lights, and the bottom of the punc- 

 tures sometimes cupreous ; body beneath more strongly shining than 

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

 the tarsi violaceous-blue. 



Head in front slightly depressed and uneven, densely, coarsely, 

 confluently punctate, sparsely clothed with moderately long, semi- 

 erect, inconspicuous hairs; epistoma shaJlowly emarginate in front. 



Pronotum strongly transverse, twice as wide as long, slightly nar- 

 rower in front than behind, widest just behind middle ; sides strongly 

 obtusely angulated just behind middles, strongly, obliquely converg- 

 ing anteriorly and posteriorly; anterior margin truncate, without a 

 median lobe; base nearly truncate, feebly lobed in front of scutellum; 

 disk broadly, rather deeply depressed at middle; surface coarsely, 

 deeply, irregularly punctate, the punctures more or less confluent to- 

 ward sides, intervals irregular in shape shining on anterior part, 



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