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creniilcite to near the posterior angles; surface with the reliefs very 

 finely granulose, with a few coarse irregularly placed punctures, the 

 depressions coarsely and densely punctate, each puncture with a 

 small round elevation, in the middle of which arises a short incon- 

 spicuous hair, the depressions are also usually covered with a paie 

 yellow pulverulence. Scutellum transverse, more or less depressed 

 at middle, and the surface densely granulose. Elj^tra wider than 

 pronotum at base, strongly arcuately expanded behind the humeral 

 angles, nearly parallel to near the apical third, then arcuately at- 

 tenuate to the tips, which are truncate, and very feebly sinuate or 

 emarginate; lateral margins very coarsely crenulate on the basal 

 expanded parts, and entire posteriorly; humeral angles broadly 

 rounded; surfaces striato-punctate, the striae feebly impressed, and 

 the punctures coarse, shallow and remotely placed, intervals feebly 

 convex and finely granulose, the striae and intervals interrupted by 

 numerous transverse irregular depressions, which are coarsely and 

 densely punctate, rather densely clothed with short inconspicuous 

 hairs, and usually covered with a pulverulence similar to that on 

 the pronotum. Abdomen beneath with numerous irregular flattened 

 elevations, the depressions denselj'^, coarsely punctate, somewhat ru- 

 gose, and becoming stronglj^ scabrous on the sides of the basal seg- 

 ment, the depressions are also rather densely clothed with long re- 

 cumbent cinereous hairs, and the punctuation usually concealed by 

 the dense pulverulence; first segment broadly and rather deeply 

 longitudinally sulcate at middle; last segment at apex broadly 

 rounded in female, and subtruncate and feebly sinuate in the male. 

 Prosternum not transversely concave along anterior margin, which 

 is truncate or very feebly emarginate at middle; surface sparsely 

 and very coarsely punctate ; prosternal process broad, feebly convex, 

 smooth at middle, with a deep marginal groove, which is rather 

 densely punctate and sparsely clothed with a row of long erect cine- 

 reous hairs, sides parallel to behind the anterior coxal cavities, then 

 strongly attenuate, and arcuately emarginate to the apex, which is 

 ver}7 broadly rounded. 



Length, 17-27 mm. ; width, 6-llmm. 



Originally described by Olivier (1790) from a specimen which 

 he believed was found at Cayenne, Guiana, and this locality was 

 quoted by all of the older writers. The same species was also de- 

 scribed from Haiti by Castelnau and Gory (1837) under the name 

 amethysti'pes. Mannerheim (1837) described a species from Santo 

 Domingo under the name lourtembergi and recorded it from 

 Cephalantho salicifoUa. Kerremans has placed this species as a 

 synonym of torquata Dalman, but it is certainly not that species, 

 but should be placed as a synonym of aurifer Olivier. Jacquelin 



