ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 187 



of Spain, Trinidad, June 19, and the other one simply labeled 

 " Trinidad, W. I. Jime." 



This species can be distinguished from all the other species of this 

 genus described from the West Indies by the shape of the pronotum, 

 which is widest at the base and slightly wider than the base of the 

 elytra. It resembles somewhat aeneocolUs Fisher and tenuis Fisher, 

 but it is much broader in proportion to its length than either of these 

 two species. 



TAPHROCERUS ELEGANS, new species 



Male. — Elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, moderately con- 

 vex and strongly flattened above; head with the occiput and vertex 

 cupreous, front green; pronotum cupreous anteriorly, becoming oli- 

 vaceous toward the base ; scutellum dark green ; elytra dark shining 

 green at base, becoming a dull bronzy color and strongly opaque on 

 the apical two-thirds, and without pubescent spots; beneath piceous 

 with a strong aenous tinge. 



Head nearly as wide as pronotum at base, and when viewed from 

 above is transversely truncate in front, with a feeble emargination 

 at the middle; and broadly flattened behind the epistoma, causing 

 two obsolete gibbosities on the front, with a longitudinal groove ex- 

 tending from the occiput to the transverse flattened area behind the 

 epistoma, the groove obsolete on the occiput, but becoming deeper 

 and broader on the front, which is wide, with the sides more widely 

 separated above than in front, and nearly flat between the eyes; 

 surface finely and densely granulose, with a few moderately deep 

 punctures intermixed, the punctures becoming denser and more con- 

 fused behind the epistoma, where the surface is also sparsely clothed 

 with short cincereous hairs; eyes large, oval, about equally rounded 

 at both ends, strongly convex and feebly projecting; epistoma flat, 

 and deeply, arcuately emarginate in front. Pronotum moderately 

 convex, nearly two times as wide as long, apex and base about equal 

 in width, widest at about the basal third; sides when viewed from 

 above are obliquely dilated to the basal third, then abruptly nar- 

 rowed, and arcuately emarginate to the posterior angles, which are 

 rather obtuse; anterior margin broadly arcuate; base transversely 

 truncate to middle of elytron, then turning obliquely backward to 

 the scutellum, in front of which it is feebly, arcuately emarginate: 

 surface with a narrow transverse depression along the anterior mar- 

 gin, connected at each side to a broad concave depression along the 

 lateral margins, which extends to the posterior angles and then trans- 

 versely along the base, these depressions causing the surface to be 

 broadly gibbous on the disk, sparsely, irregularly ocellate-punctate, 

 the punctures nearly obsolete on the disk, but becoming denser and 

 larger in the depressed areas, sparsely clothed with a few incon- 



