1939] 
New West Indian Buprestid Beetles 
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vated, sinuate, preapical carina; lateral margins coarsely, 
irregularly serrate; disk uneven, and each elytron with a 
transverse depression along base, an oblique depression in 
front of middle, and a feeble, median gibbosity at apical 
third ; surface irregularly striate, coarsely, irregularly punc- 
tate, more densely basally, and sparsely, irregularly clothed 
with moderately long, recumbent, whitish hairs. 
Abdomen beneath coarsely, rather sparsely, uniformly 
punctate, sparsely clothed with very short, inconspicuous 
hairs; second sternite with the posterior margin truncate, 
without a distinct plate extending over the third sternite; 
last visible sternite terminating in an acute spine. 
Length 7 mm., width 3 mm. 
Type locality. — South side of Lake Enriquillo, Dominican 
Republic. 
Type. — In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. Type no. 23,696. Paratype in the United 
States National Museum. 
Described from two specimens (one type) found dead at 
the type locality during September 1938 by P. J. Darling- 
ton, Jr. 
The type is probably a female but has not been dissected. 
Both specimens are more or less broken and the head is miss- 
ing from the paratype. The paratype has a very small plate 
at posterior margin of second sternite. 
This is the first species of Paratyndaris to be recorded 
from the West Indies. It resembles P. acacise Knull, but dif- 
fers from that species in being shorter and more robust, in 
having the elytra uneven, uniform in color, and the lateral 
margin without two distinct teeth near apex, the second 
sternite without or with only a feebly indicated plate at the 
posterior margin, and in not having the pronotum sulcate at 
the middle. 
Buprestis hispaniolae new species 
Female. — Broadly elongate, moderately convex above, 
strongly shining; pronotum brownish cupreous, with a more 
or less distinct greenish reflection, and ornamented with 
reddish yellow as follows : A rather broad vitta on each side 
along lateral margin extending from apical angle to near 
