ART. 9 WEST INDIAN BUPRESTIDAE FISHER 73 



HILAROTES CHALCOPTERA (Jacquelin Duval) 



Buprestis chaJcoptera Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. 

 Phj'S. Polit. et Nat. de I'lle de Cuba, Aaiim. Artie, 1857 (French Edition), 

 pp. 59-60; (Spanish Edition), vol. 7, 1857, p. 27. — Chevkolat, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 578 (separates p. 154). — 

 GUNDLACH, Contribucion k la Entom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 

 161-162, No. 308. 



Form rather broadly elongate, feebly convex, and shining above; 

 head and pronotum aeneo-viridis, sometimes with a bluish reflection ; 

 scutellum and elytra aeneo-cupreous ; beneath dark green, with a 

 strong violaceous tinge. 



Head nearly flat, and without any depressions on the front, but 

 with a narrow longitudinal groove on the vertex and occiput ; surface 

 not rugose, but coarsely, deeply and rather sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures well separated and irregularly placed; intervals smooth; 

 epistoma broadly truncate in front; antennae aeneo-bnmneus, the 

 basal joints green, with the first joint testaceous at base. Pronotum 

 about one and one-half times as wide as long, distinctly narrower in 

 front than behind, widest at base; sides feebly obliquely expanded 

 from apex to basal fourth, then abruptly and obliquely expanded to 

 the posterior angles, which are rather acute; anterior margin ar- 

 cuately emarginate, with an obtusely angulated lobe at the middle; 

 base transversely truncate to middle of elytron, and with a broadly 

 rounded median lobe, which is arcuately emarginate in front of 

 scutellum; lateral margins rounded and smooth anteriorly, with a 

 short smooth carina at the base ; disk with a broad longitudinal sul- 

 cus, which is more deeply impressed near the scutellum, a broad 

 obsolete one on each side, extending from the base to near the middle, 

 and a deep narrow one along the anterior margin, broadly inter- 

 rupted at the middle, these depressions causing a bix)adly rounded 

 gibbosity near the posterior angles; surface coarsely, sparsely and 

 irregularly punctate, and very sparsely clothed with short incon- 

 spicuous hairs, the intervals irregular in size and finely and obsoletely 

 punctured. Scutellum rounded or transversely oblong, slightly more 

 acutely rounded posteriorly, with the surface nearly smooth. Elytra 

 distinctly wider than pronotum at base, broadly arcuately expanded 

 behind the humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind the middle, then 

 strongly arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are obtusely rounded 

 and bidentate, the lateral margins with a large tooth near the apex ; 

 disk with a broad irregular basal depression; surface striato-punc- 

 tate, the striae feebly impressed, regular on the disk, but becoming 

 more irregular and somewliat confused at the sides, the punctures in 

 the striae fine, remotely and ratherly regularly spaced, some of the 

 intervals more strongly convex, especially toward the apex, and 

 sparsely, irregularly punctate, from each puncture arises a short in- 



