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CINYRA ALBONOTATA (Castelnau and Gory) 



Ancylochira albonotata Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, 

 Buprestis, p. 149, pi. 36, fig. 205. 



Male. — Form elongate, slender, and moderately convex; head 

 aureo-viridis, becoming cupreous on the occiput; pronotum and 

 elytra aeneo-cupreous and ornated with numerous cinereous pubes- 

 cent spots; beneath similar in color to above, but more shining, the 

 sides of the abdominal segments ornated with dense cinereous pubes- 

 cent spots. 



Head feebly and evenly convex, without depressions, but with a 

 short longitudinal carina on the occiput; front with the sides ob- 

 liquely converging to the vertex; surface nearly glabrous, coarsely, 

 deeply, and rather densely punctate, the punctures regularly sepa- 

 rated and not confluent; intervals smooth; epistoma broadly and 

 deeply arcuately emarginate at middle, the lateral angles of the 

 emargination acutely rounded. Pronotum one and three-fifths times 

 as wide as long, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at 

 base; sides obliquely converging from base to anterior margin; 

 posterior angles nearly rectangular; anterior margin nearly trun- 

 cate, with an obsolete, broadly rounded, median lobe; base feebly 

 bisinuate; disk with an obsolete median sulcus, a deep ante-scutellar 

 fovea, and four densely punctured impressions, two at the base and 

 two in front of the middle, forming a transverse quadrangle, the 

 two basal ones more deeply, abruptly, and transversely impressed; 

 surface coarsely, deeply, and rather densely punctate the punctures 

 more remote on the post-median part, and the four impressions 

 rather densely clothed with short, cinereous hairs. Scutellum 

 rounded, subtruncate in front, and the surface obsoletely striolate. 

 Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, obtusely rounded at 

 humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind humeri, feebly sinuate at 

 posterior coxae, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are 

 truncate and feebly bidentate; surface striato-punctate, the stria 

 feebly impressed, and becoming obsolete at the base and toward 

 lateral margins, the stria punctures very small and obsolete, intervals 

 flat, coarsely, densely, and irregularly punctate, the foveae smaller, 

 more irregular, and less distinct than in costuUfera and multipunca- 

 tata, but the arrangement is similar and the foveae sparsely clothed 

 with very short, cinereous hairs. Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather 

 densely, and irregularly punctate, and sparsely clothed with short, 

 cinereous recumbent hairs; first segment feebly flattened at middle; 

 last segment broadly truncate and feebly sinuate at apex, with a 

 narrow transverse depression behind the apical margin. Prosternum 

 feebly convex; surface coarsely and rather densely punctate, and 

 sparsely clothed with fine, long, erect, cinereous hairs; anterior mar- 



