ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTTDAE FISHER 183 



scribed as new in the present paper. The species are elongate, 

 broadly agriliform, and usually of a piceous or aeneous color. They 

 are closely allied to each other and veiy difficult to describe in such 

 a way that they can be easily recognized, but the species from the 

 West Indies can be separated by the characters given in the follow- 

 ing table : 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



1. Surface above unicolored 2. 



Surface above bicolored 6. 



2. Elytra with lateral carina 3. 



Elytra without lateral carina 4. 



3. Surface above aeneous laesicoUis Chevrolat. 



Surface above piceous tenuis Fisher. 



4. Pronotum widest at base - subglaber Fisher. 



Pronotum widest in front of base 5. 



5. Pronotum widest at apical third, then obliquely attenuate to posterior 



angles ; head transversely truncate in front when view from above ; color 



above aeneo-cupreous aeneocupreus Fisher. 



Pronotum widest at basal third, where it is abruptly constricted and then 

 parallel to the posterior angles ; head broadly rounded in front when 

 viewed from above; color above aeneo-piceous timidus Chevrolat. 



6. Sides of pronotum strongly constricted at base, which is broadly depressed 



in front of scutellum ; head and anterior part of pronotum cupreous, 

 elytra dark shining green at base, becoming bronzy and strongly opaque 



on apical two-thirds elegans Fisher. 



Sides of pronotum arcuately rounded ; base not depressed in front of 

 scutellum ; head and pronotum dark aeneous, elytra piceous, shining. 



aeneocollis Fisher. 

 TAPHROCERUS LAESICOLLIS Chevrolat 



Taphrocerus laesicoUis Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 

 1867, p. 1867, p. 587; (separate p. 163). — Gundlach, Contribucion k 

 la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, pp. 170-171. 



The following is a translation of Chevrolat's original description : 



Allied to Brachys gentilis Dejean and alboguttatus Gory ; aeneous, 

 somewhat shining, vaguely and deeply punctate: head punctate, 

 anteriorly deeply sulcata and posteriorly more narrowly sulcate ; eyes 

 black with a golden margin ; thorax transverse, vaguely punctata, in 

 front straight, externally margined, and from there up to the base 

 sulcate, on the sides obliquely bicarinate (the carina externally 

 excavated), declivous anteriorly, nearly straight toward base, some- 

 times very freely arcuate externally and subemarginate at middle, 

 with two deep subquadrate median sulci, transversely limited on the 

 disk; scutellum subrotund and shining; elytra elongate, toward the 

 base feebly wider, and then gradually attenuate, separately obtusely 

 rounded, at basal margin, suture and scutellum margined, humeral 

 callosity elevated and produced into a longitudinal costa. minutely 

 granulose, punctate-striate, the sutural stria inversely sulcate, iho^ 

 striae beyond middle obsolete, and the punctures in the striae irregu- 

 lar, posteriorly corinaceous and more shining; body beneath and 

 legs dark aeneous. Length, 3.75 mm.; width, 1 mm. Habitat, Cu])a. 

 Collections of Gundlach and Poey. 



