ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE — FISHER 163 



strongly convex, and nearly parallel on the inner margin. Prono- 

 tum a little wider than long, narrower in front than behind, strongly 

 convex anteriorly, with three deep ovate impressions at the base; 

 lateral margins not visible anteriorly from above. Scutellum trans- 

 verse and trapezoidal. Elytra elongate, sinuate at base and strongly 

 acuminate toward the apex. Sternal cavity formed by the meso- 

 sternum and metasternum, the lateral branches of the former elon- 

 gate. Metasternum truncate in front. Prosternum truncate in front 

 and not grooved at middle. First and second segments of abdomen 

 distinctly separated by a suture. Posterior coxae feebly dilated in- 

 ternally, the anterior and posterior margins arcuately emarginate. 

 Legs rather robust; femora feebly swollen at middle; tibiae slender, 

 cylindrical and straight; tarsi short, the first joint of posterior pair 

 scarcely as long as the second and third united ; tarsal claws broadly 

 angularly dilated at base. Body agriliform. 



This is a monobasic genus and was erected for thoracicus Water- 

 house. 



It is closely allied to Mixochlorus but differs from it in having the 

 pronotum narrower in front than behind, more strongly convex 

 anteriorly, and the three basal impressions deeper and only reaching 

 to the middle; scutellum transverse and the elytral intervals more 

 costiform. 



PERONAEMIS THORACICUS Waterhouse 



Peronaemis thoracicus Watekhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1887, pp. 

 178-179, figure. 



Broadly agriliform, broadly rounded in front and strongly acumi- 

 nate behind, narrower behind than in front, shining and glabrous: 

 head green, the entire median part reddish-cupreous; pronotum 

 reddish-cupreous, with the base brownish- aeneous and the lateral 

 impressions partialh^ greenish; scutellum green; elytra aeneous and 

 ornated with irregular brownish areas: elytral epipleura bluish- 

 green; beneath bluish-green, with aeneous and purplish reflections, 

 and the sides of prosternum reddish-cupreous. 



Head feebly and evenly convex, nearly flat betAveen the eyes and 

 with a short, obsolete, longitudinal carina on the occiput, and with- 

 out any distinct impressions; surface densely and deeply punctate, 

 the punctures coarse, irregularly placed, and becoming somewhat con- 

 fluent at the sides; intervals finely and densely granulose; epistoma 

 wide between the antennal cavities (about four times as wide as the 

 cavities), feebly, broadly arcuately emarginate in front with the sides 

 strongly angulated. Pronotum strongly convex anteriorly, one and 

 one-third times as wide as long, slightly Avider at base than at apex, 

 and widest at base; sides broadly, arcuately rounded from apical 

 angles to basal fourth, then obliquely expanded to the posterior 



