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and which is probably the specimen referred to by Chevrolat, 

 Fleutiaux, and Salle, the other in the collection of S. C. Brunery 

 labeled Camagiiey, Cuba (J. Acuna). 



The species is not represented in the Poey collection in Phila- 

 delphia, but there are two specimens labeled No. 1416 in the Gund- 

 lach Museum in Habana, which have not been examined. 



BUPRESTIS FASCIATA Fabricius 



Buprestis fasciata Fabricius, Maut. Ins., vol. 1, 1787, p. 177. — Olivier, 

 Entom., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, p. 21, pi. 9, fig. 92.— Fleutiaux and 

 Sall^, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, p. 405 (separates, p. 55). — 

 NicoLAY and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 102-103. 



Buprestis sewmaculata Herbst, Nat. Syst. Ins., Kafer, vol. 9, 1801, pp. 

 163-164, pi. 148, fig. 5. 



Ancylocheira {Buprestis) Ihermmieri Chevuolat, Silbennann's Rev. Ent., 

 vol. 5, 1838, pp. 68-69. — Fleutiaux and Sall6, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 ser. 6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 405 (separate, p. 55). 



Ancylochira sexplagiata LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., n. ser., 

 vol. 11, 1859, pp. 205-200. 



Buprestic fulgen-s Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 106-107. 



Buprestis fortunata Casey, Proc. Wash, .\cacl. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 107. 



Buprestis saturata Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 114. 



Male. — Elongate oval, bright green to dark blue ; elytra each with 

 a conspicuous irregular pale fascia at apical third, a small oblique 

 subapical spot, and with a large oblong or oval yellow discal spot 

 behind the scutellum, but not quite attaining the base; beneath 

 bright green, cupreous, or violaceous. 



Head feebly convex, with an obsolete longitudinal carina on occi- 

 put; surface densely, coarsely, and confluently punctate and clothed 

 with a few long inconspicuous hairs; epistoma rather deeply arcu- 

 ately emarginate in front. Pronotum nearly two times as wide 

 as long, widest near base, slightly narrower in front than behind; 

 sides somewhat variable, evenly converging, and distinctly arcuate 

 from a short and very feeble, although abrupt, basal swelling to 

 the apex, and sometimes incurved at the base; posterior angles 

 rather acute; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly 

 rounded median lobe; disk more or less impressed along the mid- 

 dle, and the ante-scutellar fovea distinct; surface deeply and rather 

 densely punctate, the punctures coarse and irregularly placed. 

 Scutellum small, subquadrate, truncate in front, but somewhat 

 variable. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, feebly ex- 

 panded behind humeri, nearly parallel to apical third, then arcu- 

 ately attenuate to the tips, which are more or less bidentate; sur- 

 face strongly striate, the striae distinct, evenl}^, and rather closely 

 punctate; intervals feebly convex, obsoletely, and remotely punc- 

 tate. Abdomen beneath rather finely and densely punctate, the 

 punctures becoming coarser and denser toward the sides; intervals 



