art. 8. BUPRESTID BEETLES OF MEXICO—FISHER. ae 
LEIOPLEURA JUBILANS Waterhouse. 
Leiopleura jubilans WatrerHousE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 163. 
This species was described from Belize, British Honduras, and bears 
a great resemblance to Lius dissimilis. The type has not been 
examined, and the species has been placed in the key from the 
characters given in the original description. 
LEIOPLEURA ORNATA, new species. 
Oblong, moderately convex, broadly rounded in front, broadly 
attenuate posteriorly, and slightly narrower behind than in front, 
moderately shining; head, pronotum, and scutellum piceous, the head 
greenish on the front; elytra dark purple, with the apex bright blue, and 
each elytron ornated with a large, golden-coppery spot at the middle, 
and the side behind the humeral angle narrowly margined with dark 
blue; beneath piceous. 
Head feebly convex, broadly and rather deeply depressed on the 
front, with a narrow, rather obsolete, longitudinal groove extending 
from the epistoma to the vertex; surface coarsely and rather sparsely 
punctate; intervals finely and densely reticulate-striolate; antennae 
rather short, piceous, with a slight aeneous tinge. Pronotum evenly 
convex, two and one-half times as wide as long, considerably nar- 
rower in front than behind, widest at the base; sides strongly arcu- 
ately attenuate from base to anterior angles; posterior angles feebly 
projecting and rather acute; anterior margin broadly, arcuately 
emarginate; base transversely truncate to near middle of elytron, 
then feebly sinuate and turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, 
in front of which it is obsoletely, arcuately emarginate; surface nar- 
rowly flattened along sides, with the margin slightly elevated, and 
with an obsolete, lateral carina extending from the base to near the 
middle and nearly parallel to the lateral margin, there is also a broad, 
shallow depression near the posterior angles, coarsely and sparsely 
punctate; intervals nearly smooth on the disk, but becoming finely 
and densely reticulate-striolate toward the sides and in the basal 
depressions. Scutellum smooth and broadly triangular. LElytra 
rather strongly convex, as wide as pronotum at base; humeral angles 
obtusely angulated; sides parallel to middle, then strongly, arcuately 
attenuate to the tips, which are rather narrowly, conjointly rounded, 
the lateral margins feebly serrate; humeri well developed; each elytron 
with a broad, rather deep depression at the base, and a narrower one 
between the humerus and lateral margin, extending along the margin 
from the humeral angle to middle, and becoming broader behind the 
humerus; surface:rather coarsely wrinkled at humeral regions, and 
coarsely, irregularly, and rather densely punctate, the punctures very 
shallow, but becoming more obsolete toward the apex; intervals finely 
