NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES — FISHER 349 



irregularly punctate, clothed with a few short, inconspicuous hairs 

 behind the epistoma, and with the two median pores along anterior 

 margin separated from each other by the diameter of the pores ; eyes 

 large, elongate, more acutely rounded beneath than above, but not 

 projecting; epistoma strongly elevated, broadly, deeply, arcuately 

 emarginate in front. 



Pronotum moderately convex, with a shollow, transverse depression 

 along anterior margin, nearly twice as wide as long, subequal in 

 width at base and apex, widest at apical third; sides when viewed 

 from above, arcuately rounded, more strongly narrowed posteriorly ; 

 posterior angles obtusely angulated ; anterior margin nearly truncate ; 

 base truncate on each side, deeply, arcuately emarginate in front 

 of scutellum; surface nearly glabrous, coarsely granulose, coarsely, 

 sparsely, shallowly, irregularly punctate, each puncture with a very 

 short, recumbent, inconspicuous hair. Scutellum triangular, rounded 

 in front. 



Elytra at base as wide as pronotum at apical third; humeral 

 angles broadly rounded; sides broadly, shallowly constricted along 

 basal halves, then obliquely narrowed to the tips, which are separately 

 broadly rounded and finely serrulate ; surface irregularly rugose, more 

 coarsely basally, with indistinct rows of shallow punctures, the punc- 

 tures becoming obsolete toward apices, and clothed with a few short, 

 recumbent, white hairs, and with the intervals finely granulose ; each 

 elytron with a broad, transverse basal depression. 



Abdomen beneath finely granulose, coarsely, very shallowly, 

 sparsely, irregularly punctate, with a few short, recumbent, white 

 hairs; last sternite narrowly flattened and truncate at apex, with a 

 deep, arcuate apical groove following outline of apical margin. Pres- 

 ternum finely, densely reticulate. Anterior and middle tibiae slightly 

 arcuate, posterior pair straight. 



Length 4 mm., width 1.25 mm. 



Type locality. — Lac Azuei, Haiti. 



Type and paratijpes. — U. S. N. M. No. 58799. Paratypes returned 

 to J. A. Ramos and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Described from 84 specimens. The type and 80 paratypes were 

 collected at the type locality during June 1938 by J. A. Ramos, by 

 sweeping over low vegetation in a mangrove swamp; one paratype 

 was collected at Petite Saline, Haiti, August 21, 1925, by W. A. 

 Hoffman; and two paratypes were collected at Trou Caiman, Haiti, 

 September 4, 1934, by P. J. Darlington. 



This species is closely allied to Taphrocerus aeneocupreus Fisher, 

 but it differs from that species in being black with only a vague 

 greenish or bronzy tinge, in having the head only shallowly depressed 

 between the eyes, the epistoma strongly elevated, the pronotum con- 

 vex posteriorly, and the two median pores along the anterior margin 



