ArT. 8. BUPRESTID BEETLES OF MEXICO—FISHER. Sis 
Length, 2.5 mm; width, 1.5 mm. 
Type locality Panama City, Panama. 
Type.—Cat. No. 25107, U.S.N.M. 
Described from a single male collected by E. A. Schwarz, January . 
Shel 911, 
PACHYSCHELUS ARDENS Waterhouse. 
Pachyschelus ardens WatERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 144, pl. 8, fig. 1. 
The type locality is Cordoba, Mexico, and was described from ma- 
terial collected by Sallé. Itis not represented in the National Museum 
Collection, and has been given its position in the key entirely upon 
the characters given in the original description. 
PACHYSCHELUS AFFINIS Waterhouse. 
Pachyschelus afinis WaTERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, pp. 143-144, pl. 8, fig. 7. 
This species was described from single examples collected by Mr. 
Champion at each of the following localities in Panama: Bugaba, 
Volcan de Chiriqui, 3,000 feet, and Pena Blanca, 3,000 feet. Water- 
house does not designate any of these places as the type locality. 
The writer has not been able to examine any specimens of this species, 
and it is placed in the key solely upon the characters given in the 
original description. 
PACHYSCHELUS GRANULOSICOLLIS Waterhouse. 
Pachyschelus granulosicolis WatERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, 
pt. 1, 1889, p. 146, pl. 7, fig. 20. 
This species was described from material collected by Mr. Champion 
at San Geronimo, Guatemala. No specimens have been examined, 
and it is placed in the key from the characters given in the original 
description. 
PACHYSCHELUS CUPRICAUDA, new species. 
Male.—Broadly cuneiform, considerably longer than wide, strongly 
narrowed posteriorly, shining, nearly glabrous; head and sides of 
pronotum bright green; scutellum and disk of pronotum bluish-green; 
elytra cyaneous, with the apical third of a bright reddish-coppery 
color, the coppery area narrowly margined anteriorly with a strong 
violaceous color; beneath piceous. 
Head strongly convex, feebly, longitudinally grooved from vertex 
to epistoma; surface sparsely but distinctly punctate, and finely 
granulated, the granulation dense and as prominent as the puncta- 
tion on the front, but becoming smoother on the occiput. Pronotum 
moderately convex, three times as wide as long at the middle; much 
narrower in front than behind, widest at base; sides strongly ob- 
liquely arcuate from base to apical angles, which are rectangular; 
anterior margin deeply, arcuately emarginate; base nearly truncate, 
