ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 157 



Castelnau and Gory (1838) g^ive a description and figure of a 

 species from Santo Domingo, which they supposed was the species 

 described by OHvier as Buprestis nnaura. A translation of their de- 

 scription is as follows: 



Length 9 lines, width 314 lines. Coppery bronze and very finely 

 granulose. Head with several yellow spots. Sides of pronotum of 

 the same color and with two small smooth spaces and a small im- 

 pressed fovea behind. Elytra feebly obliquely truncate at tips, the 

 surface striate and the interyals finely punctured. Abdomen with 

 a yellow spot on each side and a transverse band on the last segment. 

 Santo Domingo. 



It is certainly not the same as the species described by Olivier, of 

 which the following is a translation : 



Size of Buprestis austriaca. Antennae black and serrate. Above 

 entirely violet-black. Thorax with an impressed longitudinal groove. 

 Scutellum small and rounded. Elytra striate and bidentate at apex. 

 Found in South America. 



The specimens from Haiti which were loaned by the British 

 Museum are the same as the specimens of niaculativentria Say from 

 the United States, and also agree very well with the figure and de- 

 scription given by Castelnau and Gory for maura^ but since this is 

 not the species described by Olivier under that name I have place 

 niaura Castelnau and Gory as a synonym of maculativeyitris Say. 

 The true Buprestis maura described by Olivier is probably confined 

 to South America. 



BUPRESTIS CUBENSIS, new species 



Male. — Form narrowly elongate; head piceous, with a strong 

 purplish or bluish tinge, the entire front reddish-yellow, with two 

 irregular central spots, and a small spot at base of each antennae 

 cu]3reous or purplish black ; pronotum and scutellum piceous, with a 

 strong greenish or purplish tinge, the former with the anterior 

 margin narrowly pale yellow, and the sides more broadly margined 

 with reddish-yellow; elytra fulvous, becoming more reddish-yellow 

 laterally, and with the suture, lateral margins and bottoms of striae 

 purplish-cupreous; beneath brownish-cupreous, with the sternum, 

 median parts of abdomen, and under side of femora more or less 

 marked with a reddish-yellow color. 



Head feebly convex, with a very narrow obsolete carina on occiput ; 

 surface irregularly, coarsely, but not deeply punctate, the punctures 

 irregular in size and somewhat confluent on the occiput ; intervals 

 smooth and nearly glabrous; eyes feebly converging above, feebly 

 convex, oval, and about two times as long as wide ; epistoma broadly 

 but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum nearlj'^ two 

 times as wide as long, widest at basal fourth, distinctly narrower in 

 front than behind ; sides regularly arcuately expanded on basal half, 



