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rounded, the lateral margins strongly and very irregularly serrate 

 posteriorly; each elytron with four strongly elevated longitudinal 

 costae, of which the first and second are more distinct and extending 

 from the base to apex, the third more or less arcuate and extending 

 around the humeral callosity, and the fourth more or less parallel 

 with the lateral margin, uniting with the third at humeral callosity 

 and extending to the margin near apex, the scutellar costa entirely 

 absent; there are also nine or ten longitudinal rows of large, deep 

 round punctures, which are arranged in double rov,'s between the 

 costae, the punctures more or less confluent, irregularly placed and 

 forming a network of alveolus areas, the lateral margin coarsely and 

 rather densely punctured; humeri feebly developed. Abdomen be- 

 neath finely and rather densely punctate, rather densely clothed 

 wath fine short recumbent hairs, which are shorter and sparser on the 

 median part, but becoming denser toward the sides, the intervals 

 smooth and shining; first segment moderately convex and without a 

 densely punctured and pubescent spot at middle ; last segment rather 

 acutely rounded at apex. Prosternum moderately convex; surface 

 coarsely, sparsely punctate, and sparsely clothed Avith a few fine 

 inconspicuous hairs, anterior margin broadly obsoletely emarginate 

 in front ; prosternal process short, moderately broad, and with feeble 

 marginal grooves, the sides nearly parallel to middle of anterior 

 coxal cavities, where they are emarginate and abruptly narrowed, 

 the apex rather broadly rounded. 



Blale. — Not seen. 



Length, 18-24 mm. ; width, 7-8.5 mm. 



This species was originally described by Linnaeus (1771) from 

 " Oriente." Olivier (1790) gives a figure of this species and records 

 it from South America, Antilles and Cayenne, and states that speci- 

 mens are in the British Museum. It is the species listed and figured 

 by Herbst (1801) us porcafa from Cayenne, (xuiana, and the Antilles, 

 and also by Castelnau and Gory (1837) under the same name from 

 Guadeloupe. Chevrolat (1838) described this species as karakera 

 from specimens collected at Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, by Doctor 

 Lherminier, and which he says is the same species figured by Castel- 

 nau and Gory as porcata^ but is not the species described by Fabricius 

 under that name. Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) record specimens 

 collected at Vieux Fort, Guadeloupe, by Vitrac on a climbing shrub 

 {Tecoma 'pcnta'phylla). Kerremans (1906) records it from Cayenne, 

 Santa Lucia, and Guadeloupe in the collection of the Paris Museum. 



Through the kindness of the British Museum I have been able 

 to examine two females from their collection, one labeled Antilles 

 (Fairmaire) which had been compared and agrees with Buprestis 

 depressa in the Linnean Collection by C. O. Waterhouse, and from 

 which the above description was made; the other specimen is with- 



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