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flattened at middle, obliquely expanded from anterior coxal 
cavities to the apex, which is acute. 
Length 18-20 mm., width 7-7.5 mm. 
Male. — Unknown. 
Type locality. — Between Constanza and Jarabacoa, at an 
altitude of 2,000 to 4,000 feet, Dominican Republic. 
Type. — In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. Type no. 23,697. Paratype in the United 
States National Museum. 
Described from two females (one type) both collected by 
P. J. Darlington, Jr. The type was collected at the type lo- 
cality during August 1938, and the paratype was collected in 
the foothills of the Cordillera Central, south of Santiago, 
Dominican Republic, during June 1938. 
This species resembles Buprestis lineata F., but it differs 
from that species in having the pronotum and underside of 
body ornamented with reddish-yellow spots. The reddish- 
yellow spots on the underside of the body in the two speci- 
mens examined are more or less variable in shape. 
Peronaemis insulicola, new species 
Male. — Rather narrowly agriliform, rounded in front, 
more acuminate behind, glabrous, rather strongly shining; 
head bluish green in front, becoming violaceous on occiput; 
pronotum dark green, with a more or less distinct violaceous 
tinge on certain parts ; elytra dark violaceous green, bronzy 
green along sutural margins; body beneath green, with a 
golden reflection on abdomen, more strongly shining than 
above, and the legs in part bluish green. 
Head nearly flat in front, with a vague, longitudinal carina 
on occiput; surface coarsely, deeply, densely, uniformly 
punctate, the intervals finely granulose; clypeus wide be- 
tween the antennal cavities, feebly, transversely concave, 
broadly, shallowly, angularly emarginate in front. 
Pronotum rather strongly convex, strongly deflexed at 
sides, one-third wider than long, slightly wider at base than 
at apex, widest at middle; sides feebly, arcuately rounded; 
anterior margin feebly sinuate, with a feeble, broadly 
rounded, median lobe; base nearly transversely truncate; 
lateral margin when viewed from the side sharply defined, 
