ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 115 



joints united. Pronotinn strongly transverse, nearly two times as 

 Avide as long, widest near apical third, slightly narrower behind than 

 in front ; sides ver}^ strongly angulated near apical third, then feebly 

 sinuate and obliquely narrowed to the posterior angles, which are 

 rather acute; anterior margin arcuately emarginate, with a broadly 

 rounded obsolete median lobe ; base arcuately emarginate on each side 

 at the elytral lobe, the median lobe broadly rounded, and truncate in 

 front of scutellum ; surface evenly convex, without impressions, 

 rather densely and deeply punctate, the punctures well separated on 

 the disk, but becoming coarser and more confluent toward the sides ; 

 intervals obsoletelj' granulose. Scutellum small, triangular, the sides 

 equal in length, and the surface obsoletely granulose. Eytra dis- 

 tinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides broadly rounded at 

 humeral angles, slightly sinuate and parallel to behind middle, then 

 arcuately attenuate to the tips, ^vhich are conjointly broadly rounded; 

 lateral margins strongly serrate to the middle, the teeth large, widely 

 and irregularly placed; humeri not very prominent; base broadly 

 arcuately lobed; surface without costae, but with all the green spots 

 deeply imj^ressed, except those on the humeri, rather densely, deeply, 

 and regularly punctate, the punctures becoming somewhat confluent 

 and rugose toward the sides; intervals densely and finely gi'anulose. 

 Abdomen beneath coarsely, sparsely, and irregularly punctate, and 

 very sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, cinereous hairs; intervals 

 obsoletely granulose; first segment feebly imj)ressed at middle; last 

 segment with the lateral margins entire, with an obsolete serrate 

 submarginal ridge, and the apex broadly but not deeply arcuately 

 emarginate. Prosternum with a distinct median lobe in front, be- 

 hind which the surface is abruptly and broadly depressed, with only 

 a few coarse punctures along the sides, and sparsely clothed with 

 long cinereous hairs ; prosternal process flat, nearly smooth, strongly 

 expanded behind the coxal cavities, and with a very large triangular 

 tooth at apex. Femora robust; anterior femora with a large acute 

 tooth on the outer edge near the middle, the exterior margin not ser- 

 rate. Anterior tibiae feebly arcuate, flattened on the inner margin, 

 and with a distinct dilatation near the apex; middle pair strongly 

 sinuate near apex ; posterior pair straight, subcjdindrical, and with a 

 series of stiff hairs on the outer margin near apex. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the front of head 

 slightly more convex, sides more arcuately rounded, elytral spots of 

 a brighter green color, and the posterior ones larger, sides of pro- 

 notum more concave posteriorly, apex of abdomen with two semi- 

 circular emarginations (the median tooth not as long as the lateral 

 ones), anterior tibiae without dilatations, and the middle and pos- 

 terior ones straight. 



Length, 10.5 mm. ; width, 4.25 mm. 



