ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE— FISHER 107 



scutellum; surface evenly convex, without impressions, but trans- 

 versely rugose, and coarsely, sparsely punctate, the punctures ir- 

 regularly placed, and becoming denser and more oblong toward the 

 sides; intervals finely and densely granulose. Scutellum small, tri- 

 angular, with the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely 

 granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides 

 broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to middle, then 

 strongly, arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are produced into 

 an acute tooth at the middle of each elytron; lateral margins 

 strongly serrate to middle, with the teeth rather widely separated: 

 humeri moderately prominent ; base strongly angularly lobed ; surface 

 without costae, but each elytron with a round deep impression behind 

 the basal lobe, as shallow one near humerus, and with a very feeble im- 

 pression on the median and postmedian green fasciae, sparsely and 

 regularly punctate, the punctures much coarser and denser on the 

 green fasciae, and becoming nearlj'- obsolete at the apex; intervals 

 finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath coarsely and very 

 irregularly punctate; first and second segments feebly depressed at 

 middle; last segment with the lateral margins entire, without a 

 serrate submarginal ridge, and the apex with two deep semicircular 

 emarginations, with the median tooth as long as the lateral ones. 

 Prosternum with a narrow declivous lobe at middle ; surface sparsely, 

 coarsely punctate, and somewhat rugose, and sparsely clothed with 

 recumbent cinereous hairs; prosternal process flat, strongly ex- 

 panded behind the coxal cavities, and with a triangular tooth at 

 apex ; anterior coxal cavities separated by about their own diameter. 

 Femora robust; anterior pair armed with a large rounded tooth on 

 outer margin near middle, the tooth with a double row of fine 

 teeth on its exterior margin. Anterior tibiae flattened, feebly 

 arcuate, and without any dilatations; middle and posterior pairs 

 subcylindrical and straight. 



Length, 7-9.5 mm. ; width, 8.2-4 mm. 



Ty'pe locality. — Mustique Island, Grenadines, W. I. (H. H. 

 Smith). 



Other localities. — ^Woburn (south end), Grenada, W. I. (H. H. 

 Smith). 



Type. — British Museum. 



Paratype.—Q^t. No. 26808, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females received from the British Museum. 

 The type is from Mustique, and the paratype, which only differs 

 from the type in being smaller, is from Woburn, both specimens 

 having been collected by H. H. Smith. The species is very closely 

 allied to pulchra Castelnau and Gory described from South America, 

 without any definite locality. Not having anj^ specimens of pulchra 

 for comparison, and on account of the authors' descriptions being 



