ART. 8. BUPRESTID BEETLES OF MEXICO—FISHER. Dt 
which is a small, oblong depression, the portion in front of the mar- 
ginal groove acutely angulated. Elytral epipleura very narrow. 
Metasternum more coarsely punctured than the abdomen, and feebly 
rectangularly emarginate in front. Prosternum nearly truncate in 
front; prosternal process wide, three times as wide as coxal cavities, 
sides parallel, and very broadly, obsoletely rounded at apex; epi- 
sternum short, flat, and triangular. Prothoracic epipleura wide and 
nearly flat, with a narrow, deep groove behind the antennal groove; 
lateral margin nearly rectangular, becoming more acute posteriorly; 
antennal groove deep, short, following the suture between the epi- 
sternum and epipleura, and extending into the latter to about the 
middle, and parallel to the lateral margin. 
Female.—Differs from the male in having the last abdominal seg- 
ment strongly, narrowly produced, and deeply, narrowly arcuately 
emarginate at apex, with three sharp equal teeth on each side of the 
emargination, arranged obliquely, and close together, the ventral sur- 
face with a moderately deep, longitudinal groove, extending from the 
apex to near the middle. 
Length, 3.1 mm.; wide, 1.7 mm. 
Type locality—Type (male) Panama City, Panama; allotype 
(female) Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama. 
Type and allotype.—Cat. No. 25099, U.S.N.M. 
Described from two specimens, one male collected by A. H. Jen- 
nings at Panama City, Panama, April 15, 1911, and a female col- 
lected by E. A. Schwarz at Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama, May 6, 
1911. 
PACHYSCHELUS PUBICOLLIS Waterhouse. 
Pachyschelus pubicollis WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 153, pl. 8, fig. 24. 
This species was described from material collected at Teapa in 
Tabasco, Mexico; San Miguel in the Pearl Islands, and from Taboga 
Islands, Panama; and San Juan in Vera Paz, Guatemala; without 
designating any of them as the type locality. It is represented in 
the National Museum Collection by 12 specimens as follows: Hight 
examples collected at Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama, from March 5 
to April 17, by E. A. Schwarz; two from the same locality collected 
March 28 and April 10, 1911, by A. H. Jennings; one taken by the 
same collector at Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama, March 4, 1911; and 
one collected at Finca Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, at 
an altitude ef 900 feet, April 1, 1906, by Messrs. Schwarz and Barber. 
PACHYSCHELUS CUNEIFORMIS, new species. 
Male.—Broadly cuneiform, considerably longer than wide, strongly 
narrowed posteriorly, shining; head and pronotum aeneous ; scutel- 
lum and elytra dark violaceous; surface sparsely pubescent, the 
