ART. 6 I>fEW BUPRESTID BEETLES FROM COSTA RICA FISHER 19 



a feeble bronzy green reflection, and the elytra are sparsely clothed 

 ^Yith more or less distinct whitish hairs. 



BRACHYS NEVERMANNI, new species 



J/a/e.— Broadly cuneiform, more than twice as long as wide, 

 broadly rounded in front, more acuminate posteriorly, moderately 

 shining, and sparsely pubescent, the pubescence forming more or less 

 distinct designs on the elytra ; above dark brown, with more or less 

 distinct aeneous and greenish reflections in certain lights; beneath 

 piceous, with a feeble aeneous tinge. 



Head feebly convex, strongly flattened in front, and without gib- 

 bosities on the vertex, but with a narrow longitudinal groove on the 

 front, the groove becoming obsolete on the occiput and behind the 

 epistoma; surface finely, sparsely punctate or granulose on occiput 

 and vertex, with a smooth area on each side of the front, densely, 

 finely punctate on lower half, sparsely clothed with recumbent yel- 

 lowish hairs on occiput and vertex, and densely clothed with long, 

 semierect silvery white hairs behind the epistoma; epistoma very 

 narrow between the antennal cavities, slightly elevated, and not 

 transversely carinate in front. 



Pronotum moderately convex, nearly two and one-half times as 

 wide as long at middle, distinctly narrower at apex than base, and 

 widest at base ; sides obliquely narrowed from base to apical angles ; 

 when viewed from the side the lateral margins are feebly sinuate, 

 and more strongly arcuate near the posterior angles for the reception 

 of the anterior legs; anterior margin transversely truncate; base 

 transversely truncate to middle of each elytron, where it is feebly 

 arcuately emarginate, then turning obliquely backward to the scutel- 

 lum, in front of which it is feebly arcuately emarginate; posterior 

 angles rectangular ; disk broadly, transversely concave on basal half, 

 the concavity extending obliquely forward to the apical angles, caus- 

 ing the antero-median part of the disk to be regularly convex, and 

 with an elongate elevation and a distinct short carina on each side 

 near the posterior angles; surface densely, obsoletely reticulate, and 

 sparsely, irregularly punctate, the punctures fine and very sparse 

 on convex area, but becoming ocellate-punctate in the depressions, 

 and sparsely, irregularly clothed with rather long, recumbent yel- 

 low hairs, with a few white hairs near the apical angles. Scutellum 

 triangular, vaguely wider than long, with the anterior margin feebly 

 rounded, and the surface densely, obsoletely reticulate. 



Elytra slightly narrower than pronotum at base; humeral angles 

 obtusely rounded; sides nearly parallel to middle (feebly arcuately 

 emarginate at basal fourth), then obliquely narrowed to the tips, 

 which are separately narrowly rounded, with the lateral margins 



