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small irregular depressions, which are finely, densely rugose, and 

 sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous cinereous h'airs, and more 

 or less covered with pulverulence of the same color. Abdomen be- 

 neath coarsely and irregularly punctate, becoming feebly longitudi- 

 nally rugose at the sides, and rather densely clothed with short re- 

 cumbent cinereous hairs; first segment feebly longitudinally sulcate 

 at middle; last segment at apex, bro'adl}^ rounded in the female, 

 substruncate in the male. Prosternum strongly convex, not sulcate 

 along the anterior margin, which is truncate, the surface rather 

 denseh' and coarsely punctate and sparsely clothed with incon- 

 spicuous hairs; prosternal process broad, flat, and sparsely and very 

 coarsely punctured 'at middle, with a deep marginal groove, which 

 is sparsely, coarsely punctate, and sparsely clothed with a row of 

 erect inconspicuous hairs, sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal 

 cavities, then abruptly 'attenuate, and deeply arcuately emarginate 

 to the apex, which is subtruncate, or feebW rounded. < 



Length, 22-28 mm.; width, 8.5-10.5 mm. 



Castelnau and Gory (1S37) described this species from St. Vin- 

 cent, and it seems to be rare in collections. Material has been ex- 

 amined from the following localities. Coll. British Mus, : One speci- 

 men. Grand Ance, south end, Grenada; one specimen. Mustique 

 Island, Grenadines (H. H. Smith) ; and another labeled Antilles, 

 Trinidad (Fry Coll. 1905-100). Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.: One speci- 

 men, Grenada, August 2. 1906 (R. D. Amstead, collector. Ballon No. 

 800). 



This species is similar in shape to aurata Saunders, but can be 

 readily distinguished from any other West Indian species of this 

 genus by the uniform blue or bluish-green color above and by the 

 absence of longitudinal and transverse smooth spaces on the pro- 

 notum. 



PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) TORQUATA (Dalman) 



Bupreslis torquata Dalman, Anal. Ent., 1832, p. 54. — Jacquelin Duval, 

 in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. et Nat. de I'ile de Cuba, 

 Anim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), p. 59; (Spanish Edition) vol. 7, 

 1857, p. 27. 



Psiloptera torquata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 

 Bupreslis, p. 36, pi. 9, fig. 42. — Chevkolat, Ann. See. Ent. France, ser. 

 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 576 (separates p. 152). — Gundlach, Coutribucion 

 a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 159. — Kekremans, Mon. Bupr., 

 vol. 5, 1910, pp. 55-56. 



Buprestis aulica Dejean, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed. 1833, p. 76 ; 3 ed. 1836, p. 86. 

 (No description given.) 



Form broadly elongate, attentuate and broadly rounded in front, 

 and more acuminate posteriorly; head dark green; pronotum dark 

 green, with two transverse arcuate impressions, which are densely 

 covered with a golden-yellow pulverulence, one along the anterior 



