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ACMAEODERA CRUENTA (Olivier) 



Buprestis cruentu Oi.ivikk. Kntninol., vol. 2, fien. 32. 1790, pp. 48-49. pi. 

 3. fig. 21. 



Acmaeodera omenta Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 1, 1835, p. 2, 

 pi. 1, fig. 1. — MANNERHEI^t, BuU. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, no. 8, 

 1837, p. 24.— Kekeemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1906, pp. 50-53. 



Robust, rather short, strongly triangular, broadly rounded in front, 

 more acuminate posteriorly, and feebly flattened above, nearly 

 straight beneath and moderately arcuate above when viewed in pro- 

 file; head and pronotum aeneous, the latter with a large triangular 

 reddish-yellow spot, situated on each side along the lateral margin, 

 broader posteriorly and not reaching to the apical angles; elytra 

 black, with a strong bluish or greenish tinge, each elytron with an 

 oblong reddish-yellow spot near apex and ornated with from seven 

 to nine rather large irregular yellow spots arranged in two longi- 

 tudinal rows, one near the suture, the other along the lateral margin, 

 the spots in the lateral row usually consists of a very small one at 

 humeral angle, and three transverse ones, one at the basal third, one 

 at the middle, and the other at the apical third, those in the sutural 

 row vary in number from four to five, irregular in size, and not 

 always arranged in a straight line; beneath aeneous, with a distinct 

 olivaceous tinge, and more shining than above. 



Head flat, with a distinct longitudinal carina on the occiput; sur- 

 face densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures rather deep, ir- 

 regular, and nearly confluent, smooth in the bottom, and from the 

 center of which arises a long, erect inconspicuous hair, the intervals 

 smooth and shining ; epistoma broadly arcuately emarginate in front, 

 forming a broadly rounded lobe on each side of the emargination ; 

 antennae serrate fix)m the fifth joint. Pronotum strongly transverse 

 and moderately convex, two and one-fourth times as wide as long, 

 distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base, with a broad 

 triangular obsolete depression at the middle along the base, and on 

 each side a round, deep, foveate depression, situated a certain dis- 

 tance from the base and at the inner margin of the lateral yellow 

 spot, which is gibbose ; anterior margin very deeply arcuately emar- 

 ginate, with an obsolete median lobe ; sides arcuately expanded from 

 the anterior margin to posterior angles, which are obtuse, the mar- 

 gins narrowly flattened, bent under posteriorly, and not visible from 

 above, except toward the apical angles: base transversely truncate; 

 surface densely and deeply punctate, the punctures fine and rather 

 widely separated on the disk, and becoming much coarser and more 

 confluent at the sides, especially on the yellow spaces, sparsely 

 clothed with long, erect, inconspicuous hairs, intervals smooth and 

 shining. Elytra slightly concave on disk, and abruptly declivous on 

 the sides and at apex, and slightly wider than pronotum at base: 



