ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPKESTIDAE FISHER 125 



(1801) described and figured the same species from an unknown 

 locality under the name mndbidls. 



In the U. S. National Museum collection are two specimens from 

 Porto Rico, which I have placed under this species, one collected by 

 G. B. Merrill at Guanica, April 15, 1914, and the other by E. G. 

 Smyth at Santa Rita, during July, 1913. The specimen from 

 Guanica is a male, of the same size as the specimen from the type 

 locality, and only differs from it in a few minor details. The elytral 

 markings, with the exception of the basal ones, are aeneous, and the 

 blackish area is more extended on the disk. The specimen from 

 Santa Rita is a female and is larger than the other specimens, meas- 

 uring 6.25 mm. in length and 2.75 mm. in width, the head is cupreous 

 in front and a little more convex, elytral markings about the same 

 as specimen from Guanica, the under side is uniformly piceous, the 

 first abdominal segment feebly impressed at middle, and the last 

 segment more broadly rounded at the apex. 



CHRYSOBOTHUIS INSULANA, new species 



Female. — Form broadly elongate, moderately convex, and sub- 

 opaque; head and pronotum aeneous, with a slight cupreous tinge; 

 scutellum and elytra reddish-cupreous, the latter somewhat pur- 

 pureous on disk, and each elytron ornated with bluish-green spots 

 as follows: A rather broad fascia extending from basal depression 

 transversely along the base and around the humeral angles, an ob- 

 long depressed spot on disk just in front of middle, an irregular 

 transverse fascia at apical third, extending from the lateral margin 

 to the disk but not reaching the suture, a small spot covering the 

 apical area ; beneath piceous, with a slight aeneous or greenish tinge, 

 and more shining than above, the elytral epipleura cupreous; tarsi 

 cyaneous. 



Head feebly convex, with the front triangular and the sides feebly 

 arcuately rounded; occiput narrow, and feebly longitudinally 

 carinate; front not impressed; vertex with an obsolete arcuate trans- 

 verse elevation forming an arc with the sides of the front; surface 

 densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures very shallow, without 

 well-defined sides, and from each arises a short recumbent cinereous 

 hair; intervals densely and rather coarsely granulose; eyes large, 

 reniform, strongly convex, more acutely rounded at bottom than 

 on top, and separated on the occiput by about one-third the distance 

 between the antennal cavities; epistoma broadly triangularly 

 emarginate in front, with the lobes broadly rounded; antennae 

 short, the third joint only slightly longer than the following two 

 joints united. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and two third 

 times as wide as long, widest near middle, and the base and apex 



