ART. 31 BUPEESTID BEETL.ES FROM BOLIVIA FISHER 45 



CALLIMICRA VIRIDIFRONS. new species 



Female. — Oblong, moderately convex, about equally broadly 

 rounded in front and behind, and strongly shining ; he'ad and preno- 

 tum bright green, with a distinct aureous tinge, the latter more or 

 less bluish-green on the disk ; scutellum aureo-cupreous ; elytra green, 

 with a violaceous tinge along the sides ; beneath piceous, with a more 

 or less distinct aeneous tinge. 



Head rather strongly convex, not distinctly longitudinally sulcate, 

 but with a rather deep triangular depression on the front; occiput 

 feebly longitudinally carinate; surface rather densely, coarsely and 

 irregularly punctate, the intervals smooth posteriorly, but becoming 

 densely and finely granulose toward the epistoma; antennae feebly 

 cupreous. Pronotum rather strongly convex, two times 'as wide as 

 long, slightly narrower in front than behind, widest along basal 

 half; sides feebly arcuate from base to middle, then more arcuately 

 attenuate to the anterior angles ; posterior angles obtusely angulated ; 

 'anterior margin deeply arcuately emarginate, with a broadly 

 rounded obsolete median lobe; base transversely tiimcate to middle 

 of elytron, then turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in 

 front of which it is broadly subtruncate; surface rather broadly de- 

 pressed along sides, with a deep, broadly concave transverse depres- 

 sion along base, extending to the posterior angles, 'and becoming 

 deeper and more triangular toward the sides, and with a distinctly 

 elevated arcuate lateral carina, which extends from base to middle 

 of pronotum, finely, sparsely and irregularly punctate, the punctures 

 obsolete on the disk, but becoming coarser toward the sides, the in- 

 tervals nearly smooth on the disk, but finely, densely reticulate along 

 the lateral margins. Scutellum triangular, and obsoletely reticulate. 

 Elytra moderately convex, about as wide 'as pronotum at base, hu- 

 meral angles obtusely angulated; sides parallel to apical third (ob- 

 soletely arcuately constricted at middle), then broadly arcuately at- 

 tenu'ate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded, with the 

 lateral margins finely and densely serrate posteriorly; humeri 

 strongly developed; each elytron with a rather broad, deep trans- 

 verse basal depression, and a similar one along lateral margin, ex- 

 tending from humer'al angle to near the middle, and becoming 

 broader behind the humerus ; surface finely and rather densely punc- 

 tate, the punctures more or less stelliform and very irregularly 

 placed, with the intervals obsoletely rugose. Abdomen beneath 

 densely and finely reticulate, with numerous fine, obsolete punctures 

 intermixed, and sparsely clothed with very short inconspicuous 

 hairs; last segment broadly rounded at apex. Presternum clothed 

 with 'a few rather long erect hairs, and sparsely, coarsely punctate; 

 prosternal process long, broad, sides parallel, and the apex broadly 



