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sparsely punctate, the punctures becoming denser on the antero- 

 lateral part of the segments, and spaj-sely clothed at the sides with 

 rather long, fine recumbent hairs; intervals finely and densely granu- 

 lose; first segment convex, and not sulcate at middle; last segment 

 truncate at apex. Prosternum coarsely, sparsely punctate, and very 

 sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs, and the intervals 

 smooth; anterior margin truncate; prosternal process feebly flattened 

 on the top, and not longitudinally sulcate, the sides feebly expanded 

 behind the anterior coxal cavities, then arcuately emarginate and 

 attenuate to the apex, which is obtusely rounded. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but with the last abdominal segment 

 obtusely rounded at the apex. 



Length, 12-15 mm. ; width 3.5-5 mm. 



This name was first used by Dejean (1823) for a species from 

 North America, which he placed in his genus Le'ptia^ but without 

 describing either the genus or species. Gory (1840) described the 

 species under the same name from the specimen in the Dejean col- 

 lection, and placed it in the old genus Buprestis. It has been recorded 

 by Fleutiaux and Salle (1890) from Guadeloupe, as having been 

 collected by Delauney during September at Camp Jacobs, and also by 

 Vitrac at Trois Rivieres and Petit Bourg on a species of Melasto- 

 maceae. 



Specimens which I have determined as this species have been ex- 

 amined from the following localities. Coll. U. S. Xat. Mus. : Three 

 specimens, Dominica, June and July, collected by H. W. Foote of 

 the Yale Expedition of 1913; and one specimen from Gaudeloupe 

 (L. Defau). Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : One specimen, Gourbeyre, 

 Guadeloupe. Coll. British Mus. : One specimen, labeled Dominica, 

 G. A. Ramage, 97-67, May 12, 1888. 



The elytral depressions are slightly more cupreous in the specimens 

 from Guadeloupe, but there is considerable variation even in these 

 specimens. It is just possible that these specimens represent the 

 species described by Kerremans as pyropus from that island, but if 

 so, I can not see any reason for separating the two species. 



HALECIA PYROPUS Kerremans 



Ealecia pyropus Kerremans, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 37, 1893, pp. 504- 

 505.— Kerremans, Men. Bupr., vol, 3, 1909, pp. 41&-420. 



The following is a translation of Kerremans' original description : 



Elongate, at apex attenuate, metallic golden-green, with a cyaneous 

 tinge, the depressions on the head, pronotum and elytra are dark 

 purpureo-violaceous ; head granulose, the front excavated ; pronotum 

 trapezoidal, uneven, depressed on both sides, and the middle longi- 

 tudinally sulcate ; scutellum transverse ; elytra punctate-striate, trun- 

 cate and dilated at humeri, the apex attenuate and strongly muricate; 

 each elytron with three impressions, first an elongate one on disk, the 



