ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE- — FISHER 35 



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

 lateral margins rather coarsely serrate from apex to the posterior 

 coxae ; humeri feebly developed ; surface with a more or less distinct 

 costa on each side at the lateral declivity, the sutural margins rugose, 

 with a strongly elevated carina at the middle, and without any 

 visible suture between the elytra, the surface is also striato-punctate, 

 the striae very wide, the punctures coarse, extremely deep and 

 nearly connected in the striae, the intervals between the striae very 

 narrow, acute on top, with the surface coarsely granulose, and 

 clothed with a few remotely placed, coarse, erect black hairs, the 

 striae becoming broader and more convex on the lateral deflexed 

 areas. Abdomen beneath densely and coarsely punctate, the punc- 

 tures deep and nearly confluent on the basal segments, becoming 

 more shallow toward the apex, sparsely clothed with long recumbent 

 cinereous hairs, and with the intervals obsoletely granulose; last 

 segment broadly rounded at apex, without a subapical carina. Pro- 

 sternum coarsely, densely punctate, and sparsely clothed with re- 

 cumbent cinereous hairs, intervals coarsely and finely granulose; 

 anterior margin with a distinct median lobe, which is elevated and 

 feebly arcuately emarginate in front; prosternal process strongly 

 convex, parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, about two 

 times as wide as the cavities, and very broadly rounded at the apex. 



Length, 7.5 mm.; width, 3.5 mm. 



Described by Chevrolat (1867) from Cuba and recorded by him 

 from the central part of the island, from material in the collections 

 of Gundlach and Poey. Gundlach (1891) reports collecting it on 

 the flowers of a shrub at Caimanera and Cienfuegos. Kerremans 

 (190G) records it from Cuba but states that the species is unknown 

 to him. This species is not represented in the Poey collection in 

 Philadelphia, but there is a single example labeled No. 809 in the 

 Gundlach Museum in Habana, which has not been available for 

 stud}'. 



Tliis species seems to be very rare in collections and I have not seen 

 any specimens of it from the West Indies, but there is a specimen 

 in the United States National Museum from Key Largo, Florida, 

 Avliich agrees with the description given by Chevrolat, and from 

 which the above description was made. It is a very distinct species, 

 extremely coarsely and deeply punctate, sides of the elytra strongly 

 deflexed at lateral margins, humeral angles produced into a narrow 

 lobe, and w^ith a large yellow basal spot at middle of the first abdo- 

 minal segment. In the specimen examined the elytra seem to be 

 connate, as no suture could be seen between the two elytron, but on 

 account of it being a unique specimen, no dissections could be made. 

 This is the specimen recorded by Fall (1899) as cuhaecola Jacquelin 

 Duval, based on an identification made by Linell. 



