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New Buprestid Beetles 
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long, scarcely once and a fifth as wide at base as at the 
anterior margin. The anterior margin nearly straight in 
the middle, bordered by a stria; the anterior angles project- 
ing forward; the sides slightly converging from middle to 
the anterior angles, sinuate from middle to the posterior 
angles, which are slightly divergent. The sides margined in 
basal two thirds of their length by a smooth, straight carina. 
The base tranversely truncate. Surface sparsely and un- 
equally punctate, the punctures well separated on the middle, 
but becoming much denser and very confluent at the sides, 
which are clothed with long recumbent pubescence. 
Scutellum very wide, straight in front, nearly semicircular 
posteriorly, the disk with a few punctures in the middle. 
Elytra a little wider at the humeral angles than the 
pronotum at the base; the shoulders slightly expanded and 
rounded; the sides nearly parallel from the shoulders to 
behind the middle, then feebly attenuate to the tips, which 
are separately narrowly rounded ; the sides in the posterior 
marginal half very acutely serrate, the denticles closer 
apically but also strong laterally. Sutural margin bordered 
by a sharp carina in the apical half of its length. Surface 
unequal, with a narrow and deep depression between the 
base and the humerus, striate-punctate, the striae obsolete, 
the punctures well marked but irregular, becoming stronger 
toward the sides. The intervals slightly and irregularly 
convex, becoming quite obsolete at base. The steel blue 
spots arranged thus : the first on the first third, not reaching 
the base ; the second behind the middle, reaching the suture 
and the lateral margin ; the third covering the apex ; these 
spots rather indistinct, as in Dicer opygus maculatus H. Deyr. 
Prothoracic episterna very finely and regularly punctate, 
clothed with recumbent pubescence. Prosternal process 
very wide, trifid at apex, finely and regularly punctate, flat, 
shining. Abdomen pubescent toward the sides ; the abdomi- 
nal segments finely longitudinally strigose; the last segment 
much more strigose, emarginate at apex between two long 
and acute spines which are prolonged on the disk of the 
segment, forming little carinae ; the emargination with a 
little stria parallel to the edge. Posterior tibiae rather long ; 
posterior tarsi rather short and distinctly enlarged at apex. 
A single specimen of this new species (type, M. C. Z. 
