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SO short and incomplete, I am obliged to describe it as a new species. 

 In their description of pulchra they state that the pronotum has a 

 small longitudinal line at the middle, which is entirely absent in 

 the West Indian specimens. In comparing the specimen with their 

 figure of pulchra, that species seems to be larger and more elongate, 

 the pronotum not angulate near the anterior angles, and with a 

 longitudinal line at middle, the reddish fasciae on elj^tra are broader 

 in comparison to the green areas, and the tips of the elytra are con- 

 jointly acute, while in hella each elytron is produced into an acute 

 tooth at middle. 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS QUADRIMACULATA (Fabricius) 



Buprestis qiiadrhnaculata Fabricius, Gen. Ins. Mant, 1770, pp. 236-237 ; 

 Spec. Ins., vol. 1, 1781, p. 280; Mant. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 183.— 

 Olivier, Entomol., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, p. 76, pi. 10, fig. 110; Ency. 

 Method., vol. 5, 1790, p. 238.— Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, 1801, 

 p. 208. 



Male. — Form rather elongate and moderately convex, subopaque; 

 head aeneous, with a cupreous reflection ; pronotum violaceous, with 

 a transverse green fascia at the anterior margin, the fascia narrowly 

 margined anteriorly Avith a reddish-cupreous color, and a rather w ide 

 transverse reddish-cupreous fascia (strongly expanded at the sides) 

 at basal third; scutellum and elytra violaceous; each elytron with 

 base, suture, lateral margin, and a narrow transverse postmedian 

 fascia green, all the green areas narrowly margined wdth a reddish- 

 cupreous color; there is also a transverse oblong reddish-cupreous 

 spot in the middle of the anterior violaceous area, and a smaller, 

 somewhat triangular spot of the same color in the middle of the 

 posterior violaceous area; beneath aeneous, with a strong bluish- 

 green tinge, the sides of the posterior coxae and prosternum reddish- 

 cupreous and more shining than above; tarsi cyaneous. 



Head flat, with the front triangular, and the sides feebly arcuately 

 rounded ; occiput narrowly obsoletely longitudinally carinate ; front 

 not impressed; vertex with an arcuate transverse elevation forming 

 an arc with the sides of the front; surface sparsely, very coarsely, but 

 not deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed, becoming con- 

 fluent in some parts, and from the center of each puncture arises a 

 moderately long recumbent cinereous hair; inter%^als finely densely 

 granulose; eyes large, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at 

 bottom than on top, and separated on the occiput by one-half the 

 distance between the antennal cavities, epistoma broadly arcuatelj' 

 emarginate in front, the lobes broadly rounded; antennae short, third 

 joint as long as the following four joints united. Pronotum strongly 

 transverse, one and one-half times as wide as long, widest near apex, 

 front and base about equal in width; sides strongly, abruptly and 



