ABT. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 9 



POLYCESTA CYANIPES (Fabricins) 



Ituprestis ciiampes Fabricius, Mant. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 178 



Paliicei<t(i cymitpefi Wateuhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, 



1904, p. 254.— Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1906, pp. 474r-475, pi. 9, 



fig. 5. 

 Poljjcestd rcsplendcns Thomson, Typ. Bupr., 1878, p. 45. 

 Polycesta jamaicensis White MSS. 



Female. — Oblong, broadly rounded in front, slightly more atten- 

 uate posteriorly and feebly convex above; color above green, some- 

 times the sides and suture aenco-cupreous, and usually with a strong 

 violaceous tinge when viewed in certain lights; beneath of the same 

 color as above. 



Head flat, with an obsolete depression on the front and a feeble, 

 narroAv longitudinal groove on the occiput ; surface somewhat rugose, 

 coai-sely, deeply, and rather densely punctate, the punctures variable 

 in size and irregularly placed, forming irregular, broadly rounded 

 intervals on the front, which are smooth, shining, and glabrous; 

 epistoma truncate or obsoletely arcuately emarginate in front. Pro- 

 notum strongly transverse, nearly two times as wide as long, dis- 

 tinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at the middle; sides 

 obliquely arcuately expanded to the middle, where they are broadly 

 rounded to the basal fifth, then parallel to the posterior angles, which 

 are rectangular (in some specimens the sides are obliquely attenuate 

 from the middle to the posterior angles) ; anterior margin deeply 

 arcuately emarginate, with a distinct, broadly rounded median lobe ; 

 base truncate or feebly bisinuate; disk feebly flattened, with a broad 

 obsolete depression extending over the entire median part, the de- 

 pression very shallow and with a feeble longitudinal median sulcus, 

 which is more deeply impressed on the basal half; surface declivous 

 on the sides toward apical angles and with a narrow groove along 

 the anterior margin, and sometimes with an obsolete one along the 

 base, coarsely, rather densely, but not deeply punctate, the punc- 

 tures finer and more remotely separated on the disk, but becoming 

 deeper, coarser, and somewhat confluent at the sides, the intervals 

 smooth and glabrous. Scutellum quadrate or oblong, and slightly 

 wider behind than in front. Elytra feebly flattened above, declivous 

 at the sides, and equal in width to the pronotum at base; humeral 

 angles rectangular; sides nearly parallel to the apical third, then 

 arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded; 

 lateral margins strongly and coarsely serrate near apex; surface 

 without distinct costae, but with punctured striae, which are feebly 

 impressed, with the punctures fine and irregularly placed; intervals 

 smooth, irregular in width, obsoletely rugose posteriorly, and with 

 a few obsolete punctures; sutural margins elevated posteriorly; hu- 

 meri obsoletely developed. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather densely, 



