AET. 9 WEST INDIAlSr BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 47 



Length, 8.5 mm. ; width, 3.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Guanica, Porto Rico. 



Other localities. — Anasco, Santa Rita, Tallaboa, Aibonito, and 

 Martin Pena, all in Porto Rico. 



Types and paratypes.—Q,dX. No. 26804, U.S.N.M. 



Paratypes also in American Museum Natural History; Carnegie 

 Museum ; Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia ; British Museum ; 

 Porto Rico Experimental Station at Rio Pedras; and also in the 

 collection of G. B. Merrill. 



This species is described from a series of 15 specimens collected 

 at the following localities in Porto Rico. The type and paratypes 

 A, B, and C, collected at Guanica, April 15, 1914, by G. B. Merrill; 

 paratype D, collected at the same locality June 5, 1920, by G. N. 

 Wolcott; paratypes E, F, and G, collected at Anasco, September, 



1913, by E. G. Smyth; paratj^pes H and I, collected at Santa Rita, 

 July, 1913, by E. G. Smyth; and paratypes J, K, and L, collected 

 at Martin Pena, July 10, 1917, by R. T. Cotton. Coll. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. : Paratype M collected at Aibonito, July 15, 1914, by F. E. 

 Watson, and a paratype N collected at Tallaboa, near Ponce, July 23, 



1914, by Harry G. Barber. 



This species is quite variable in size, form and elytral markings. 

 Paratypes B, H, I, K, and N, agree very closely with the type in 

 size, form and markings ; paratype D is not quite as triangular, more 

 flattened above, pronotum more longitudinally sulcate at middle, and 

 the elytral markings are not quite as numerous; paratypes E, F, L, 

 and M, are slightly smaller, and more parallel and subcylindrical; 

 paratypes A, C, G, and J, have the color much darker, and the yellow 

 markings are more or less obliterated. 



Genus PSILOPTERA Solier 



Psiloptcm SoLiEK, Ann Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 283-284, 

 pi. 11. fig. 13.— Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837-1838, 

 Buprestis, pp. 20-77, pis. 5-19. — Lacokdaike, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, 

 pp. 27-30. — Kerremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 

 1903, pp. 90-103 ; Mon. Bupr., vol. 5, 1910-1911, pp. 1-506, pis. 27-32. 



Lampetis, Dejean, Cat. Coleopt, 2 ed., 1833, p. 76 ; 3 ed., 1836, p. 86.— 

 Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 6, 1837, p. 113. 



Head rugose, sometimes feebly depressed, and wider in front 

 than on the vertex; front not narrowed by the insertion of the 

 antennae; epistoma short, broadly and rather deeply emarginate in 

 front; antennal cavities small, triangular, and armed posteriorly by 

 a strongly elevated, oblique carina, and situated at some distance 

 from the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae moderately long; first 

 joint rather short and robust ; second and third very short, globular 

 more slender than the first, the third sometimes slightly longer than 



