ART. 8. BUPRESTID BEETLES OF MEXICO—FISHER. 79 
Head feebly convex, broadly and deeply depressed on the front, 
with a distinct narrow longitudinal groove extending from the epis- 
toma to the vertex, the groove deeply impressed on the front, but 
becoming obsolete on the vertex ; surface coarsely and rather densely 
punctate ; intervals finely and densely granulated; antennae mode- 
rately long, piceous, with the first few joints slightly greenish. Pro- 
notum evenly convex, three times as wide as long, considerably nar- 
rower in front than behind, widest at the base ; sides strongly, arcu- 
ately attenuate from the base to anterior angles; posterior angles 
nearly rectangular; anterior margin deeply, arcuately emarginate ; 
base transversely truncate to near the middle of the elytron, then 
feebly sinuate and turning obliquely backward to the scutellum, in 
front of which it is truncate ; surface with a broad, shallow depres- 
sion on each side along the base in front of the elytral depressions, 
coarsely and rather densely punctate; intervals nearly smooth on 
the disk, becoming coarsely and densely granulate-striolate toward 
the sides, and nearly obscuring the punctation. Scutellum smooth 
and broadly triangular. Elytra moderately convex, as wide as prono- 
tum at base, widest at basal third ; humeral angles obtusely rounded; 
sides broadly, arcuate to middle, then strongly, arcuately attenuate 
to the tips, which are conjointly, narrowly rounded, the lateral margin 
obsoletely serrate ; humeri well developed ; each elytron with a broad, 
deep depression at base, and a deep, narrow one between the humerus 
and lateral margin, extending along the margin from the humeral 
angle to the middle, and becoming broader behind the humerus, 
ornated with two golden-ereen fasciae, the first a broad, transverse 
one at middle, extending from the lateral margin to the sutural fourth, 
and the second, a somewhat triangular one near the apex, extending 
from the lateral margin to near the suture, both of these fasciae are 
slightly oblique, the posterior one more strongly so than the anterior 
one ; surface finely, irregularly, and rather densely punctate, the 
punctures becoming coarser on the green fasciae; intervals finely 
and obsoletely reticulate-striolate. Abdomen beneath finely and 
obscurely punctate, with the intervals finely and densely reticulate- 
striolate ; last segment broadly rounded at apex. Metasternum and 
prosternum more coarsely punctured than abdomen, the latter with 
the anterior margin feebly, arcuately emargipate. 
Length, 2.85 mm. ; width, 2 mm. 
Type locality. Porto Bello, Panama. 
Type and paratype.—Cat. No. 25125, U.S.N.M. 
Described from two specimens collected by August Busck March 
3 and 4, 1911. 
This species is allied to pulchra Waterhouse, but the head and 
pronotum are not golden-green, and the green fasciae on the elytra 
do not extend to the suture. It is also closely allied to claveri de- 
