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gin broadly, abruptly declivous on each side of the middle; pros- 

 ternal process flat, parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then 

 obliquely attenuate to the apex, which is acutely rounded. 



Femnle. — Similar to the male, except that the head is aeneo-cupre- 

 ous, and the prosternum and abdomen beneath not quite as densely 

 pubescent. 



Length, 13 mm.; width 4.5 mm. 



This species was described by Castelnau and Gory (1838) from 

 Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and seems to be confined to that island. 



The following material has been examined. Coll. British Mus. : 

 One specimen, labeled Haiti (Obert), compared with type, Kerre- 

 mans, 1903-59, and two other specimens simply labeled St. Domingo. 

 Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. : Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 



Genus BUPRESTIS Linnaeus 



Buprestis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, 10 ed., 175S, pp. 408-ilO. — Solier, Ann. 



Soc. Ent. France, sen 1, vol. 2, 1833, pp. 279-281, pi. 10, fig. 10.— 



Lacokdaire, Gen. Col., vol. 4, 1857, pp. 40-42. — Kekremans, Wytsman's 



Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 3. 1903, pp. 140-143.— Casey, Proc. Wash. 



Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 87-128.— Nicolay and Weiss, Journ. N. Y. 



Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 75-109, pis. 5-6. 

 Ancylochira Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, vol. 1, 1829, p. 9 (reprint p. 8). — 



Castelnau and Gory, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1838, Buprestis pp. 125-149, 



pits. 30-31; addenda p. 3. 

 Anoplis KiRBY, Richardson's Fauna Bor. Axner., vol. 4, 1837, pp. 151-154. 



Head flat or feebly convex, the sides nearly parallel; front not 

 narrowed by the insertion of the antennae, and sometimes feebly 

 grooved; epistoma short, and usually more or less emarginate in 

 front; antennal cavities small, rounded, and situated a considerable 

 distance from the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae rather long 

 and slender, nearly as long as the head and pronotum united; first 

 joint elongate, more or less clavate; third joint at least two times as 

 long as the second ; the following joints elongate, triangular, dentate 

 on the inner side, and armed with a poriferous fovea situated on the 

 inferior side at the apical margin of the joint. Eyes rather large, 

 about two times as long as wide, moderately convex, and very feebly 

 converging above. Pronotum wider than long ; sides oblique, or more 

 or less arcuate, with the lateral edges feebly and narrowly margined 

 posteriorly; base bisinuate. Scutellum small and rounded. Elytra 

 dilated behind the humeri, attenuate posteriorly, truncate or rounded 

 at apex, which is more or less bidentate; disk striato-punctate, with 

 the intervals flat or elevated, sometimes the alternate intervals costate. 

 Sternal cavity formed by the mesosternum and metastemum; Mesos- 

 ternum divided, the lateral branches elongate and feebly oblique; 

 metasternum emarginate in front and grooved at the middle. 



