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CHRYSESTHES LANIERI (Chevrolat) 



Buprestis {Chrysesthes) lanieri Chevrolat, Rev. ZooL, 1S38, p. 280. 

 Buprestis lanieri Goey, Mod. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 3840, p. 123-124, pi. 21. 



fig. 121 — Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. Phys. Polit. 



et Nat. (le I'ile de Cuba, Auim. Arctic, 1857 (French edition), p. 61, pi. 



7, figs. 6-7; (Spanish edition), vol. 7, 1857, p. 28; vol. 8, pi. 7, figs. G-7. 

 ■ Pelecopselaphns lanieri Chkvrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Franco, ser. 4, vol. 7, 



1867, pp. 574-575, (separates pp. 150-151).— Gundlach, Contribucion 



a la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, p. 157, No. 244. 

 Chrysesthes lanieri Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 3, 1908, pp. 269-270. 



Male. — Form rather narrowly elongate, navicular, feebly convex : 

 above violaceous, with a strong greenish reflection ; head and prono- 

 tum obsoletely margined with green ; each elytron ornated with three 

 round bright green impressions, one at the basal fourth, one at the 

 middle, and the other near the apical third; beneath golden-green, 

 more shining than above, and the abdominal segments bro'adly tinted 

 with steel-blue along posterior margins; tarsi bine. 



Head feebly transversely depressed behind the epistoma, with a 

 longitudinal sulcus, Avhich is deeply impressed on occiput and vertex, 

 but becoming more obsolete on the front; surface more or less rugose, 

 glabrous, coarsely but not very densely punctate, the punctures 

 irregular in size and distribution, and bright green or ruby-red at 

 the bottom; intervals coarsely and densely granulose; epistoma 

 broadly and rather deeply arcuately emarginate in front, forming 

 a large obtuse lobe on each side of the emargination. Antennae 

 with the serrate joints armed with two large foveae on the under 

 side, and a single obsolete one on the upper surface. Pronotum one 

 and one-half times' as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than 

 behind ; sides obliquely expanded from apical angles to near middle, 

 then nearly parallel to the posterior angles, which are nearly rect- 

 angular; anterior margin nearly truncate; base slightly bisinuate, 

 with the median lobe very broadly and feebly arcuately rounded: 

 laterally the sides are sharply margined posteriorly, the margins 

 smootli, arcuate, inflected in front, but not extending to the anterior 

 margin; surface evenly convex, and not sulcate at middle, coarsely, 

 transversely rugose, and finely and rather sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures irregularly placed between the rugae, and of a bright 

 ruby-red color at the bottom; reliefs finely and densely granulose. 

 Scutellum transversely oblong, and obsoletely granulose. Elytra 

 wider than pronotum at base, obliquely expanded behind the humeral 

 angles, strongly sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuately attenuate 

 to the tips, which terminate in a short, acute tooth; lateral margins 



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