ART. 31 BUPKESTID BEETLES FROM BOLIVIA FISHER 19 



clivous; prosternal process rather wide, the sides parallel to behind 

 the coxal cavities, then abruptly narrowed to the apex, which is 

 acute. Femora moderately robust, and w4th a few obsolete teeth on 

 the inner margin near apex. Tibiae slender, anterior and middle 

 pairs feebly arcuate, and armed with a sharp curved spine on inner 

 margin at apex ; posterior pair straight, subcylindrical, and strongly 

 ciliate on outer margin on apical half. Posterior tarsi seven-ninths 

 as long as the tibiae, and the first joint about equal in length to the 

 following three joints united. Tarsal claws dissimilar; claws on 

 anterior and middle tarsi deeply cleft at apex, the two teeth slender 

 and about equal in length; anterior claws cleft at middle, the inner 

 tooth broad, short, and not turned inward. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the head more convex, 

 slightly wider, sides more parallel, the front more sparsely, coarsely 

 punctured, and entirely reddish-cupreous, pronotum and elytra 

 more greenish, the pubescence more whitish, and the two posterior 

 pubescent spots along suture connected, abdomen acutely rounded at 

 apex, and the tarsal claws broadly cleft at middle on all feet, the 

 inner tooth broad, short, and not turned inward. 



Length, 8.5-9.5 mm.; width, 2-2.1 mm. 



Type locality. — Tumupasa, Bolivia. 



Type, allotype and paratypes.—Q^X. No. 26972, U.S.N.M. 



Described from six specimens, five males and one female, collected 

 at the type locality during December, 1921. 



In some of the paratypes the dorsal surface is more purplish and 

 the pubescence more whitish, otherwise they agree with the t^^pe. 



AGRILUS GORAI, new species 



Female. — Form rather small, slender, and moderately shining; 

 above black, with an obsolete purplish reflection, the head more or 

 less aeneous in front, and ench elytron ornated with cinereous pubes- 

 cence as follows: A sparsely clothed area surrounding the scutel- 

 lum and filling the basal depression ; a wide impressed vitta, extend- 

 ing along the sutural margin from basal fourth to middle, and then 

 transversely to the lateral margin; and a large spot covering the 

 entire apical third. Beneath aeneo-piceous, wdth the legs more or 

 less cupreous, and the tarsi blackish. 



Head with the front wide, feebly convex, the sides feebly ex- 

 panded on vertex and occiput, and with a broad shallow depression 

 extending from the occiput to epistoma, the depression more or 

 less obsolete on the front, but becoming more distinct on the vertex ; 

 surface densel}^, coarsely granulose, and coarsely, irregularly reticu- 

 late on the front, becoming coarsely longitudinally rugose on the 

 occiput, and with only a few cinereous hairs behind the epistoma; 



