art. 8. BUPRESTID BEETLES OF MEXICO—FISHER. 31 
It was described from material collected at Rio Hondo, Belize, Brit- 
ish Honduras; Chacoj and San Geronimo in Vera Paz, Guatemala; 
Costa Rica; and Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama, at an altitude of 3,000 
to 4,000 feet, without designating any of these places as the type 
locality. No specimens have been examined by the writer, and it is 
placed in the key solely upon the characters given in the original 
description. 
PACHYSCHELUS OBSOLETEPILOSUS, new species. 
Female.—Broadly ovate, only slightly longer than wide, broadly 
rounded in front, more obliquely narrowed posteriorly, subopaque; 
head, pronotum, and elytra dark green; scutellum piceous; elytra 
with a few very short, inconspicuous, cinereous hairs protruding from 
the punctures; beneath piceous, more shining than above, with a 
slight aeneous reflection. 
Head feebly convex and deeply embedded in the prothorax, feebly, 
longitudinally grooved on the front; surface sparsely, coarsely punc- 
tate, from each puncture arising a very short, obsolete hair; inter- 
vals with numerous finer punctures, and finely, densely granulated. 
Pronotum moderately convex, four and one-half times as wide as 
long at the middie, much narrower in front than behind, widest at 
base; sides strongly, obliquely arcuate from base to apical angles, 
which are nearly rectangular; anterior margin deeply, arcuately 
emarginated for the insertion of the head; base nearly truncate, ab- 
ruptly sinuate at the elytral lobes; hind angles acute, projecting 
slightly beyond the humeral angles of the elytra and fitting closely 
to them; surface glabrous, rather densely punctate, the punctures 
larger and denser on the sides; intervals densely granulated, with a 
few fine punctures intermixed, the granulation much denser and 
more opaque on the sides. Scutellum finely, densely granulated, 
glabrous, with the anterior angles acute. Elytra as wide as pronotum 
at base, widest at basal third; humeral angles broadly rounded; sides 
broadly rounded to the middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, 
which are conjointly, very broadly rounded, the lateral margin en- 
tire, and when viewed from the side is slightly arcuate, with an ab- 
rupt sinuation for the posterior femora; each elytron with a broad, 
obsolete basal depression, and a deeper narrow one between the 
humerus and lateral margin, extending along margin from near the 
humeral angle to a very broad, deep depression behind the humerus, 
and then continuing posteriorly for a short distance along the mar- 
gin; surface coarsely and rather densely punctate, with the intervals 
finely and densely reticulate, sparsely clothed with a few inconspicu- 
ous, short, cinereous hairs. Abdomen beneath feebly convex, sparsely 
and obsoletely punctate, with a few very short, inconspicuous hairs; 
intervals finely, and densely reticulate, with a few oblique rugae near 
the posterior legs; last segment is feebly sinuate on each side and 
