ART. 8. BUPRESTID BEETLES OF MEXICO—FISHER. Bil 
bent fulvous hairs, inclosing a small, round, dark space, and bor- 
dered above with cinereous hairs; finely and rather densely punc- 
tured on the pubescent spaces, with a series of stelliform punctures 
on each side of the pubescent lines; intervals nearly smooth. 
Abdomen beneath rather densely punctate, the punctures large, 
shallow, open on the one side, and from each puncture arises a 
rather long, recumbent, cinerous hair; intervals finely and densely 
granulated ; last segment broadly rounded posteriorly, and very 
finely dentate at the apex. 
Female.—Differs from the male in having the head more convex,, 
more deeply grooved at middle, surface smoother and very sparsely 
pubescent, the pubescence nearly obsolete on the front, and the 
abdomen broader and not quite as attenuate posteriorly. 
Length, 3-3.2 mm.; width, 1.4-1.5 mm. 
Type locality.—Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama. 
Type, allotype, and paratypes.—Cat. No. 25117, U.S.N.M. 
Described from 10 specimens, 5 males and 5 females, all of which 
were collected by EK. A. Schwarz at the type locality between Janu- 
ary 17 and May 12, 1911. 
This species is closely allied to Brachys distinctus Waterhouse, de- 
scribed from Guatemala. It differs, however, from that species, by 
having the elytra piceous, with a cupreous, violaceous or greenish, 
reflection, and not cyaneous as in that species, and the arrangement 
and color of the pubescent markings on the elytra are different. 
BRACHYS PULVEROSUS Waterhouse. 
Brachys pulverosus WareRuHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 138. 
This species was described from material collected at Jalapa, Mex- 
ico, by C. T. Hoge. 
It is represented in the National Museum Collection by a single 
example collected at Tampico, Mexico, December 25, 1909, by E. 
A. Schwarz. It agrees with the description for this species, with 
the exception that the two small spots near the scutellum are com- 
posed of fulvous hairs instead of white ones, as given in the original 
description. 
Genus LIUS Deyrolle. 
TInus H. Deyroute, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 8, 1864, p. 219. 
Nearly 75 species have been described in this genus, the distribu- 
tion of which is confined to the Western Hemisphere. Of this 
number of species only 6 have been previously described from Mexico 
and Central America, 1 from the Antilles, and the remainder of the 
species from South America, where this genus attains its highest devel- 
opment. All of the species of this genus are similar in form, somewhat 
triangular, and strongly attenuate posteriorly, but are rather variable 
in color. 
