ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE — FISHER 111 



broadly rounded median lobe; base broadly arcuately emarginate on 

 each side at the elytral lobes, the median lobe broadly rounded, and 

 truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, without im- 

 pressions, rather densely, deeply, and coarsely punctate, the punc- 

 tures becoming- larger and more confluent at the sides; intervals 

 densely and obsoletely granulose. Scutellum very small, triangular, 

 the sides equal in length, and the surface obsoletely granulose. 

 Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly rounded 

 at liumeral angles, nearly parallel to near apical third, where they 

 are slightly wider, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 

 conjointly broadly rounded; lateral margins strongly, coarsely ser- 

 rate to near the middle; humeri not prominent: base broadly ar- 

 cuately lobed ; surface without costae, but each elytron with a round, 

 deep impression at the basal lobe, and a broad, shallow one on the 

 premedian green fascia, densely and finely punctate, the punctures 

 coarse and more confluent on the green areas and at sides and apex : 

 intervals finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath sparsely 

 and coarsely punctate, the punctures shallow and irregularly placed, 

 and from each puncture arises a short semierect cinereous hair; in- 

 tervals nearly smooth and more shining than above; first segment 

 not impressed at middle ; last segment with the lateral margins entire, 

 with an obsolete serrate submarginal ridge, and the apex broadly 

 arculately emarginate. Prosternum with a narrow, broadly rounded 

 median lobe, which is feebl}^ declivous in front, the surface more 

 coarsely and deeply punctate than the abdomen; prosternal process 

 flat, angularly emarginate between the coxal cavities, then strongly 

 expanded on each side, with a rather acute tooth at apex; anterior 

 coxal cavities separated by a little more than their own diameter. 

 Femora robust ; anterior pair with a large, acute tooth on the outer 

 edge near middle, the tooth not serrate on the exterior margin. An- 

 terior and middle tibiae slightly arcuate, the former flattened and 

 with an obsolete dilatation at the apex ; posterior pair subcylindrical 

 and straight. 



Female. — Diflers from the male in having the head olivaceous- 

 green, occiput more strongly carinate, eyes more widely separated, 

 first and second abdominal segments feebly flattened, last ventral 

 segment truncate at apex, with a sharp tooth at each side, and an 

 irregular submarginal ridge, and the anterior tibiae without any 

 dilatations. 



Length, 6 mm. ; width, 3 mm. 



Described from Cuba by Castelnau and Gory. Recorded from the 

 same island by Jacquelin Duval. Chevrolat (1867) records it from 

 the eastern and central part of Cuba, in the collections of Gundlach, 

 Poey, and the author. Gundlach (1891) records having collected it 

 in ail parts of the island of Cuba and in Porto Rico. The specimens 



