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Duval (1857) records it from Santo Domingo and Cuba. Chevrolat 

 (1867) also records it from Santo Domingo, in the collection of 

 Chevrolat, and from Cuba in the collection of Dejean. Gundlach 

 (1891) states that it is very doubtful from Cuba, but that it is 

 found in Santo Domingo. Kerremans (1910) records it from Port 

 au Prince, Haiti, in the Paris Museum, Brussels Museum, and tlie 

 collections of Thery and Kerremans. This species is without any 

 doubt confined to Santo Domingo, and the records given by Chev- 

 rolat and Jacquelin Duval of a specimen in the Dejean collection 

 from Cuba, probably is based on aulica, which is a synonym of 

 torquata^ as Dejean never recorded a specimen in his collection 

 under the name of aurifer. 



Specimens have been examined from the following localities. 

 Coll. British Mus. ; One specimen, Antilles, Santo Domingo (Fry 

 Coll.) ; one specimen St. Domingo (Parry, Saunders 74-18) ; and 

 one specimen. Port au Prince, Haiti. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. : 

 One specimen labeled simply Haiti (E. Lemke). Coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.: Two specimens. Port au Prince, Haiti (C. Bencomo, and 

 W. L. Rockwell) . 



PSILOPTERA (LAMPETIS) AURATA (Saunders) 



Psiloptera mirifera Castelnau and Gory, Mon, Bupr., vol. 2, 1837, 

 Buprestis, p. 35, pi. 9, fig. 41. (Name preoccupied.) 



Psiloptera aurata Saunders, Catal. Bupr., 1871, p. 23. — Kerremans, Mon. 

 Bupr,, vol. 5, 1910, pp. 56-57. 



Form broadly elongate, attenuate and broadly rounded in front, 

 and more acuminate posteriorly; head golden-green; pronotum 

 black, with a slight bluish tinge, the depressions golden-green and 

 arranged as follows : A deep longitudinal groove at middle, broader 

 posteriorly and extending from the anterior margin to near the 

 scutellum, a rather broad depression on each side along the anterior 

 margin, a similar one along the lateral margin, becoming broader 

 posteriorly, extending obliquely over the postero-lateral region, and 

 forming two smooth oblique elevations on the disk; scutellum 

 bluish-black ; elytra without marginal grooves, aeneo-cupreous, some- 

 times becoming brownish or reddish-cupreous, and the intervals 

 more or less bluish-black; beneath bluish-black, with a strong 

 greenish or violaceous tinge, and the depressions aeneo-viridis. 



Head nearly flat; surface strongly, irregularly rugose on the 

 median parts, the elevations broadly convex, smooth and shining on 

 the top, there is a rather wide area along the margin of the eyes, 

 which is densely, coarsely punctate, densely clothed with long semi- 

 erect hairs, and usually covered with a dense yellow pulverulence ; 

 epistoma broadly, but not deeply arcuately emarginate in front, and 

 with an obtuse tooth on each side of the emargination. Pronotum 



