ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 151 



BUPRESTIS AURULENTA Linnaeus 



Buprestis aurulenta Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12 ed., 1767, p. 661. — Olivier, 

 Entom., vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 18-19, pi. 9, fig. 98.— Fleutiaux and 

 SAXLfi, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 9, 1890, p. 405 (separates 

 p. 55). — NicoLAY and AVeiss, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 26, 1918, pp. 

 82-^4. 



Ancylochira radians LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 7, 1854, 

 p. 17. 



Ancylochira lauta LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 7, 1854. p. 17. 



Ancylochira viUosa LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, p. 331. 



Buprestis fabulosa Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 119-120. 



Buprestis aemula Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 121. 



Buprestis tacomae Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 121. 



Buprestis nupta Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, pp. 121-122. 



Buprestis venusta Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 122. 



Buprestis prospera Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 123. 



Buprestis affinis Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 123. 



Buprestis adulans Casey, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1909, p. 123. 



Male. — Elongate-suboval, broader than decora; head and pro- 

 notum green, with the front of head and sides of pronotiim more or 

 less cupreous ; elytra pale green to ultramarine, the suture and lateral 

 margins usually bright cupreous; beneath bright green or cupreous. 



Head feebly convex, with a distinct longitudinal carina; surface 

 densely and coarsely punctate, the punctures confluent and forming 

 longitudinal rugae on the front, and rather sparsely clothed with 

 long recumbent cinereous hairs; epistoma broadly, but not deeply 

 arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum not quite two times as 

 wide as long, widest near basal third, narrower in front than behind; 

 sides arcuately rounded to middle, then more attenuate to the apical 

 angles; posterior angles nearly rectangular; anterior margin feebly 

 arcuately emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe; disk 

 obsoletely longitudinally sulcate at middle; surface coarsely, rather 

 densely, and deeply punctate, the punctures irregularly placed, and 

 becoming denser and more confluent toward the sides, and with a 

 few inconspicuous hairs; intervals obsoletely granulose. Scutelluni 

 oval, truncate at base and more or less depressed at middle. Elytra 

 wider than pronotum at base, feebW dilated behind the humeri, 

 sinuate at posterior coxae, then arcuatel}^ attenuate to the tips, which 

 are more or less rounded or subtruncate, the sutural angle frequently 

 minutely dentate; each elytron with four discal costae, a short post- 

 scutellar costa, suture and lateral margin elevated, the summits of 

 which are smooth and not punctate; intervals very densely and 

 evenly cribrate. Abdomen beneath rather finely strongly, but not 

 closely punctate, and rather densely clothed with long, fine cinereous 

 hairs; intervals obsoletely granulose; first segment not sulcate at 

 middle; last segment truncate at apex. Prosternum feebly convex, 

 the anterior margin somewhat sinuate, and the surface coarsely,. 



