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Psyche 
[December 
NEW WEST INDIAN BUPRESTID BEETLES 
By W. S. Fisher 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States 
Department of Agriculture 
This paper is the result of a study of the beetles of the 
family Buprestidse from the West Indies, sent to me for 
identification from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
Cambridge, Mass., by Dr. P. J. Darlington, Jr. All the new 
species described in this paper were collected by Dr. Darling- 
ton on his numerous trips to these islands. 
Paratyndaris antillarum, new species 
Short, robust, subcylindrical, rather strongly shining; 
body above and beneath piceous, with distinct purplish and 
greenish reflections in different lights. 
Head feebly, uniformly convex, without a median depres- 
sion; surface rather densely, coarsely, uniformly punctate, 
with a few very short, inconspicuous hairs, the intervals 
smooth; clypeus broadly, rather deeply, arcuately emargi- 
nate in front ; antennse missing. 
Pronotum strongly, uniformly convex, one-third wider 
than long, distinctly narrower at apex than at base, widest 
at middle ; sides strongly arcuately rounded ; lateral margin, 
when viewed from the side, entire, and slightly arcuate ; an- 
terior margin truncate ; base vaguely, transversely sinuate ; 
disk without depressions or smooth lines; surface finely, 
transversely striolate, and asperate at middle, coarsely, 
rather densely punctate, and more or less rugose toward the 
sides, sparsely clothed with short, inconspicuous hairs. Scu- 
tellum glabrous, elongate-triangular. 
Elytra as wide as pronotum at base ; sides nearly parallel 
from humeral angles to behind middle (feebly constricted 
along basal fourth), then arcuately converging to the tips, 
which are separately broadly rounded, with a distinctly ele- 
