NEW SPECIES OF BUPRESTID BEETLES FKOM COSTA 



EICA 



By W. S. Fisher 

 Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 



In working over a collection of Buprestid beetles collected in the 

 vicinity of San Jose, Costa Rica, by Ferd. Nevermann, a number of 

 apparently undescribed species have been found; these are described 

 in the present paper. Through the kindness of Mr. Nevermann the 

 types of all the new species have been placed in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum. 



AGRILUS TRYPANTIFORMIS, new species 



Male. — Elongate, rather broad, shining, and strongly flattened 

 above ; head aeneous in front and becoming brownish cupreous on the 

 occiput; pronotum and elytra piceous, with distinct greenish, viola- 

 ceous and cupreous reflections, and the latter ornamented with dis- 

 tinct white pubescent designs; beneath aureo-cupreous, and more 

 shining than above. 



Head with the front wide, very uneven, about equal in width at 

 top and bottom, the lateral margins parallel, with a narrow trans- 

 verse depression behind the epistoma, the depression deeper at lateral 

 margins, a broad, very deep, somewhat triangular depression on the 

 front extending to the lateral margins, and connected to the trans- 

 verse depression by a broad, deep, longitudinal depression, causing a 

 large, round gibbosity on each side behind the antennal cavities; 

 surface nearly glabrous, obsoletely reticulate, coarsely, irregularly 

 punctate, and some of the punctures confluent; epistoma transverse 

 between the antennae, deeply, broadly depressed, and broadly, arcu- 

 ately emarginate in front; antennae extending to base of pronotum,, 

 serrate from the fourth joint, and the outer joints distinctly longer 

 than wide; eyes moderately large, broadly oblong, and equally 

 rounded above and beneath. 



Pronotum one-half wider than long, about equal in width at apex 

 and base, and widest at basal fourth ; sides obliquely expanded from 



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