ART. 6 NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FEOM COSTA RICA FISHER 15 



basal depressions ; surface coarsely but not deeply imbricate-punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with short inconspicuous hairs, and each elytron or- 

 namented with yellowish white pubescent designs as follows : A large 

 elongate spot in sutural depression in front of middle, and a narrower 

 vitta in the sutural depression extending from the apex to just behind 

 the middle, where the vitta is slightly enlarged. 



Abdomen beneath finely, sparsely punctate, the punctures coarser 

 and connected transversely by sinuate lines on the basal segment, 

 very sparsely clothed with short recumbent white hairs, and the last 

 three segments with a small spot of denser white hairs at the sides; 

 sides rather broadly exposed above; first segment convex and with- 

 out long pubescence at middle ; last segment rather acutely rounded 

 at apex ; suture between first and second segments not visible ; vertical 

 portions of first segment Avith a spot of dense golden yellow pubes- 

 cence; pygidium longitudinally carinate, but the carina not project- 

 ing at apex. Prosternum coarsely rugose, and sparsely clothed with 

 short recumbent hairs; prosternal lobe broad, moderately declivous, 

 and broadly rounded in front ; prosternal process broad, slightly ex- 

 panded behind the coxal cavities, then abruptly narrowed to the 

 apex, which is bent upward and acute. Tibiae slender, straight, and 

 the anterior pair armed with a minute tooth on the inner margin at 

 apex. Posterior tibiae missing. Tarsal claws on anterior and middle 

 feet similar, cleft near middle, the teeth long and acute, the inner 

 one turned inward, and the tip nearly touching that of the opposite 

 side. 



Length, 6.25 mm. ; width, 1.25 mm. 



Type locality. — San Jose, Costa Rica. 



Type.— C2,i. No. 41610, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single female collected at the type locality during 

 May, 1922, by Ferd. Nevermann. 



AGRILUS TURRIALBENSIS, new species 



Fem^ole. — Elongate, slender, shining, and strongly flattened above ; 

 head reddish cupreous in front but becoming greenish brown on the 

 occiput; pronotum dark olivaceous green, with a feeble purplish 

 reflection toward the lateral margins; elytra greenish black, with a 

 feeble purplish tinge at humeral angles and apex, and ornamented 

 with whitish pubescent spots ; beneath piceous, with distinct aeneous 

 and cupreous reflections, and more shining than above. 



Head with the front wide, slightly convex, about equal in width 

 at top and bottom, the lateral margins feebly arcuately expanded at 

 middle, and with a broad, dee'p, longitudinal depression extending 

 from epistoma to occiput ; surface coarsely, irregularly rugose, with a 

 few fine punctures between the rugae, except at bottom where the 



