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325. Acmseodera ornata, n. sp. 



A. angustula, convexa, nigra, subtiis albido-S(]uamosa ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque ciipreo-metallicis nitidis dense sed mimis profunde 

 punctatis et (una cum elytris) pube brevissiraa demissa minutissima 

 cinerea pares irroratis, hoc antice convexo profunde canaliculate ; 

 elytris postice acutis, singulis maeulii minuta basali et altera longiore 

 postmedia (e linea fracta efformatis) necnon plagix maximii sinuata 

 sublaterali (a basi usque ad apicem ducta) testaceis ornatis, leviter 

 striato-punctatis, interstitiis sat minute punctulatis. — Long. corp. 

 Hn. 2. 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, Aprili ineunte a.d. 1859 exemplar uni- 

 cum ad Rio Palmas collegi. 



The shining, cupreo-metallic, and comparatively finely (though 

 densely) punctured prothorax of this sjjecies, which has its anterior 

 disc prominent and convex and its longitudinal channel very deep, in 

 conjunction with its narrow and posteriorly rather acute outline, its 

 less coarsely striated elytra (which however have the minute punc- 

 tules of their interstices rather conspicuous), and the peculiar shape 

 of its pale elytral vittce (the basal and postmedial ones of which are 

 small and narrow, as though caused by a broken-up line, whilst the 

 outer, or sublateral, one is large, sinuated, and elongate — reaching 

 from the base to the apex), will readily separate it from the three 

 preceding species*. The only example which has come beneath my 

 notice I brushed from out of vegetation in the Rio Palmas of Euerte- 

 ventura, at the beginning of April 1859. 



Genus 136. BUPRESTIS. 

 Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. ii. 659 (1767). 



326. Buprestis Bertheloti. 



B. nitida, submetallico-nigra, fronte (maculis duabus virescentibus 

 exceptis), prothoracis margine antico ipsissimo necnon laterali an- 

 tice elytrorumque (nigrorum) fasciis quatuor obliquis confluentibus 

 (e maculis miuutis disjunctis compositis) flavo-omatis ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque profunde punctatis, hoc antice angustato, in disco an- 



* The A. ornata is a good deal allied to the discoidea, Fab., from northern 

 Africa ; but is rather smaller and narrower, with its jorothorax less developed, 

 much more shining and metallic, and regularly punctured (instead of being 

 coarsely imbricated), its elytra are more acute behind and with their inner, 

 broken-up line almost obsolete, its limbs are slenderer, and its entire upper sur- 

 face has the pubescence very much more minute, sparing, and depressed. Possibly 

 it may approach nearer to the A. flavovittata, Lucas ; but, judging from the de- 

 scription, the different punctation of the head of that species, and the broken-up 

 sublateral band of its elytra (which appears to be resolved into four viftm and 

 two spots) would, apart from minor characters, seem to i*emove it from the A. 

 ornata. 



