ART. 8. * BUPRESTID BEETLES OF MEXICO—FISHER, AT 
of elytron, then turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in 
front of which it is arcuately emarginate; surface broadly flattened 
at the sides, the depression extending obliquely from the anterior 
angles to the base at middle of the elytron, and then transversely 
along the base, causing the anterior median part of the disk to be 
regularly convex, without lateral carina, finely and sparsely punctate 
on the disk, with large, round, shallow punctures in the flattened 
areas, sparsely clothed with long, recumbent, fulvous pubescence, 
with two small spots of denser pubescence at the base, close to the 
scutellum; intervals obsoletely granulated. Scutellum obsoletely 
granulated, broadly triangular, anterior margin rounded. Elytra 
slightly wider than pronotum at base, widest at basal sixth; humeral 
angles broadly rounded; sides rounded to basal fourth, then nearly 
parallel to the middle, and then obliquely attenuate to the tips, which 
are conjointly rounded, with the lateral margins entire; humeri prom- 
inent. Each elytron with a deep broad depression at the base, and 
a deeper one behind the humerus between the lateral carina and 
lateral margin, and with a distinct sinuate lateral carina extending 
from the humeral angle to the apical fourth; with a fine line of black- 
ish hairs (cinereous at the base) extending from the base to the pu- 
bescent fascia at middle; the basal half is rather densely clothed with 
long semierect blackish hairs, with a few cinereous ones behind the 
scutellum; at the middle there is a well-marked, moderately broad 
fascia of long semierect cinereous hairs, which extends from the suture 
to the lateral margin, and behind this fascia is a broader fascia of 
blackish hairs, similar to those on the basal half; the apical fourth 
is rather densely clothed with cinereous hairs similar to those on the 
median fascia; surface finely and densely punctate, the punctures 
coarser and more widely separated on the sides and humeral region, 
and finely granulated; intervals nearly smooth. Abdomen beneath 
moderately convex, sparsely punctate, the punctures large, nearly 
obsolete, and open on the one side, from each one arises a short 
recumbent cinereous hair; intervals finely and densely granulated; 
last segment broadly rounded at the apex, with the margin entire. 
Female.—Differs from the male in having the pubescence on the 
side of pronotum cinereous, humeral regions of elytra not quite so 
violaceous and more rugose, head cupreous, sparsely pubescent on 
the occiput, becoming nearly glabrous anteriorly, and without the 
dense pubescence behind the epistoma. 
Length, 2.6-3.4 mm.; width, 1.25-1.7 mm. 
Type locality—Porto Bello, Panama. 
Other localities —Paraiso and Tavernilla, Canal Zone, Panama; 
Trinidad River and Buena Ventura, Panama. 
Type, allotype, and paratypes.—Cat. No. 25111, U.S.N.M. 
Described from 15 specimens, 5 males and 10 females. 
