^RT. 31 BUPRESTID BEETLES FROM BOLIVIA FISHER 35 



BRACHTS TAKANA, new species 



Female. — Broadly oblong, two times as long as wide, broadly 

 rounded in front, and more acuminate behind, moderately shining 

 and sparsely pubescent, the pubescence forming two more or less dis- 

 tinct fasciae on the elytra; head, pronotum, scutellum and body be- 

 neath piceous, with a feebly aeneous tinge ; elytra black, with a strong 

 purplish and bluish tinge. 



Head feebly convex, not depressed behind epistoma and without 

 gibbosities on the vertex, broadly and rather deeply longitudinally 

 grooved on the front, the groove becoming obsolete on the occiput 

 and at epistoma; surface finely, densely reticulate, with a few fine 

 scattered punctures, and very sparsely clothed with rather long re- 

 cumbent cinereous hairs, except for two glabrous spaces on the front ; 

 epistoma narrow between the antennal cavities, elevated, and not 

 transversely carinate in front. Pronotum moderately convex, two 

 and one-half times as wide as long at middle, distinctly narrower in 

 front than behind, and widest at the base ; sides obliquely attenunate 

 from base to anterior angles (when viewed laterally the margin is 

 feebly sinuate and more arcuate near the posterior angles for the 

 reception of the anterior legs) ; anterior margin truncate ; base 

 ti*ansversely truncate to middle of each elytron, where it is feebly 

 arcuately emarginate, then turning obliquely backward to the 

 scutellum, in front of which it is feebly arcuately emarginate; pos- 

 terior angles nearly rectangular; surface broadly depressed at the 

 sides, the depression extending obliquely from the anterior angles to 

 the base at middle of eljtron, then transversely along base (but not as 

 deeply depressed in front of scutellum), causing the antero-median 

 part of the disk to be feebly, regularly convex, there is also an ob- 

 long elevation, with a more or less distinct carina on each side near 

 the posterior angles; surface also densely, obsoletely reticulate, and 

 spai-sely, irregularly punctate, the punctures fine and deep on the 

 convex area, but becoming ocellate-punctate in the depressed areas, 

 and from each puncture arises a moderately long, recumbent, cin- 

 ereous hair. Scutellum triangular, slightly wider than long, with 

 the anterior margin feebly arcuately rounded, and the surface dense- 

 ly, obsoletely reticulate. Elytra slightly narrower than pronotum 

 at base; humeral angles obtusely rounded; sides nearly parallel to 

 middle (feebly arcuately emarginate at basal fourth), then obliquely 

 attenuate (and obsoletely sinuate) to near the tips, which are con- 

 jointly broadly rounded, with the lateral margins entire; humeri 

 prominent. Each elytron with a deep, broad, transverse depression 

 at base, a narrower one between humerus and lateral margin, and 

 Avith a distinct lateral carina, Avhich is sinuate, strongly elevated, and 

 extending from the humeral angle to near the apex, with a single 



