NEW COLEOPTERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 
FAMILY BUPRESTIDA3, TRIBE AGRILINI 
By W. S. Fisher 
Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 
This paper is based on part of a collection of Buprestidse re- 
ceived from Prof. Charles Fuller Baker, College of Agriculture, 
University of the Philippines, Los Banos, P. I., together with 
the material in the collection of the United States National 
Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Material from the Malaysian region was not well represented 
in the Museum collection, and most of the species mentioned 
in the present paper have been collected by Professor Baker on 
various islands of the Philippine Archipelago. The collection 
is especially rich in the smaller species of the family, and as 
these minute forms are seldom taken by the average collector, 
they are usually not very well known. It is, therefore, neces- 
sary to describe a number of these as new. The present paper 
is confined to the tribe Agrilini, which includes nearly all of the 
smaller Buprestidae and is the largest tribe of the family, includ- 
ing over one-third of all the described species. 
Very little has been written on the habits of this tribe from 
the Philippines; one species, Agrilus occipitalis Esch., has been 
reported as injuring branches of lemon and orange trees, and 
other species will be found of great economic importance just 
as soon as their habits are known. 
Through the kindness of Professor Baker, all the types of the 
new species here described have been placed in the United States 
National Museum. 
I take the opportunity of thanking Professor Baker for having 
given me the privilege of studying the material of this family 
from that interesting region. 
The keys given in the present paper do not include all the 
described species from the region, but are only based on the 
material received from Professor Baker, together with the speci- 
mens in the Museum collection. It has been impossible to include 
these other species, as many of the characters used in the keys 
are not mentioned in the descriptions by the various authors. 
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