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the outer edge, closer to the apex than base, and not serrate on the 

 exterior margin. Anterior tibiae arcuate, feebly flattened on the 

 inner surface, and without any dilatations; middle and posterior 

 pairs straight and subcylindrical. 



Length, 4.5 mm; width, 2.1 mm. 



Type locality. — Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 



Type.—Q^t. Xo. 2G811, U.S.N.M. 



This species was described from a single female received from H. 

 F. Wickham, and was collected by R. J. Crew at the type locality. 

 It is closely allied to C. thoracica Fabricius, but differs from it in a 

 number of ways. The head is more finely punctured, more strongly 

 granulose, and the sides of the punctures not forming a network of 

 polygonal areas as in thoracica. The pronotum is more arcuately 

 attenuate posteriorly, the punctures on disk more elongate, and 

 widely separated: and the elytra has an obsolete costa along the 

 lateral margin, the basal fovese more rounded and deeply impressed, 

 the green basal fascia not extended along the suture behind the 

 scutellum, and the disk with four round green foveae, the median 

 ones deeply impressed. 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS THORACICA (Fabricius) 



Buprestis thoracica Fabeicius, Ent. Syst. Suppl., 1798, p. 138. 

 BupresUs amabilis Herbst. Nat. Syst. Ins. Kiifer, vol. 9, 1801, pp. 144-145. 

 pi. 147, fig. 5. 



Male. — Form small, short, rather robust and feebly convex, and 

 subopaque; head bright green, with the reliefs on front cupreous; 

 pronotum reddish-cupreous with the anterior margin aureous; scu- 

 tellum dark green; elytra brownish-aeneous, and each elytron 

 omated with nile-green markings as follows: A broad fascia along- 

 base, extending backward for a short distance along suture, this 

 fascia is also extended around the humeral angle, an irregular trans- 

 vei'se spot in front of middle, and a small post-median spot, which is 

 closer to the lateral margin than the suture; there is also a black spot 

 behind the humerus and a similar one along the lateral margin at 

 middle. Beneath piceous, with a strong aeneous tinge at middle, 

 and becoming aeneo-purpureous at the sides of abdomen ; prosternum 

 green, becoming cupreous at the sides; legs violaceous, the anterior 

 femora green on the exterior surface. 



Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides 

 feebly arcuately rounded; occiput narrow and longitudinally cari- 

 nate : front not impressed ; vertex with an obsolete transverse arcuate 

 elevation, forming an arc with the sides of the front ; surface densely 

 and coarsely punctate, the punctures rather shallow, irregular, and 

 nearly confluent, the sides forming a network of polygonal areas, 

 bottom of punctures granulose, and from the center of which arises 



