NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES — FISHER 331 



Elytra at base as wide as pronotum at base; sides nearly parallel 

 from bases to behind middles, then arcuately converging to the tips, 

 which are broadly truncate, each with a distinct serrate preapical 

 carina and armed at each angle with large tooth; lateral margin 

 thick, armed posteriorly with two rows of broad teeth ; disk strongly 

 convex, slightly uneven; surface finely, shallowly striate, densely, 

 finely and coarsely, irregularly punctate, sparsely clothed with short, 

 recumbent, scalelike, white hairs, each elytron with an elongate, 

 smooth, impunctate space along sutural margin extending from basal 

 fifth to apex. 



Abdomen beneath finely, densely, uniformly punctate, impunctate 

 along posterior margins of sternites, densely, uniformly clothed with 

 moderately long, recumbent and semierect, white hairs; posterior 

 margin of second sternite broadly lobed at middle ; last visible stern- 

 ite broadly depressed, and acutely angulated at apex, with a finely, 

 densely toothed preapical carina. 



Length 10.5 mm., width 4 mm. 



Type locality. — Argentine Republic (no definite locality). 



Type.—V. S. N. M. No. 58784. 



Described from a single specimen intercepted at New York, March 

 21, 1936, in a shipment of grapes from Argentine Republic. 



This species is allied to Tyndaris planata Castelnau and Gory, but 

 it differs from that species in having the pronotum deeply and tri- 

 angularly depressed on the disk, and uniformly brownish black, and 

 the elytra more deeply striate, with distinct zigzag yellow markings. 



TYNDARIS UNICOLOR, new species 



Short, robust, strongly shining, uniformly brownish black, with dis- 

 tinct purplish, greenish, and bronzy reflections in different lights, and 

 with last tergite and margins of last visible sternite bluish. 



Head flat in front, without depressions or median carina, densely, 

 rather finely, uniformly punctate, sparsely clothed with moderately 

 long, recumbent, whitish hairs; intervals smooth; epistoma deeply, 

 arcuately or angularly emarginate in front ; antenna serrate beginning 

 with sixth segment. 



Pronotum moderately convex, one-third wider than long, distinctly 

 narrower at apex than at base, widest behind middle ; sides strongly 

 arcuately rounded, more strongly converging anteriorly; lateral 

 margin when viewed from side entire and slightly arcuate ; base nearly 

 truncate, feebly, acutely angulated in front of scutellum ; disk broadly, 

 shallowly depressed at middle; surface finely, densely, uniformly 

 punctate, more or less rugose, nearly glabrous at middle, densely 

 clothed at sides, with short, recumbent, white hairs. Scutellum very 

 small and round. 



