ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHEE 81 



HALECIA ERYTHRQPUS (Gory) 



Buprestis erythropus Gory, Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1840, p. 126, pi. 22, 



fig. 124. 

 Leptia erythropus Dejkan, Cat. Coleopt., 2 ed., 1833, p. 78; 3 ed., 1836, 



p. 89. (No description.) 

 Halecia erytJiropa Fleutiaux and Salle, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, 



vol. 9, 1890, p. 403 (separates p. 53). — Kerkemans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 



3, 1909, p. 420. 



Male. — Form narrowly elongate, navicular, and feet>ly convex; 

 above dark bronzy-green, with strong violaceous, purpureous and 

 cupreous reflections, and the elytra more or less ornated with irregu- 

 lar cupreous markings, which are frequently wanting; beneath simi- 

 lar to above, but more shining, the legs ferrugineous, with a strong 

 iridescent greenish reflection. 



Head broadly but not deeply depressed, the depression extending 

 to the margin of the eyes, and from the epistoma to the vertex, and 

 with an obsolete narrow longitudinal groove on the occiput and 

 vertex ; surface coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, the punctures 

 shallow and irregularly placed ; intervals smooth ; epistoma broadly, 

 arcuately emarginate in front, with the outer angles of the emargina- 

 tion forming an obtuse tooth. Pronotum about one and one-half 

 times as wide as long, base and apex about equal in width; sides 

 feebly arcuately attenuate to the basal sixth, where they are strongly 

 sinuate, then obliquely expanded to the posterior angles, which are 

 somewhat projecting and rather acute; anterior margin broadly 

 arcuately emarginate, with the median lobe rather distinct and 

 subangulate; base feebly bisinuate, with a broadly rounded median 

 lobe; lateral margins rounded and only obsoletely marked poste- 

 riorly; disk with a broad shallow longitudinal sulcus, which is in- 

 terrupted at the middle, a transverse depression on each side along 

 anterior margin, and a broad obsolete one on each side about midway 

 between the median sulcus and lateral margin; surface sparsely and 

 rather deeply punctate, the punctures irregular in size and arrange- 

 ment, and becoming coarser at the sides ; intervals smooth. Scutellum 

 short, oblong, two times as wide as long, the surface smooth and 

 shining. Elytra wider than pronotum at base, feebly expanded be- 

 hind the humeral angles, nearly parallel to apical third, then arcu- 

 ately attenuate to the tips, which are produced into an acute spine 

 at the outer margin, and then strongly obliquely emarginate to the 

 suture ; lateral margins entire ; each elytron with a short broad costa 

 at apex, and several irregular obsolete impressions, which are some- 

 times wanting; surface striato-punctate, the striae feebly impressed, 

 and the punctures fine and more or less confused in the striae, the 

 intervals feebly convex, somewhat rugose toward the sides, and 

 sparsely, irregularly punctate. Abdomen beneath finely and rather 



