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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 
Vol. 95 Washington: 1944 No. 3183 
NEW SPECIES OF BUPRESTID BEETLES FROM 
TRINIDAD 
W. S. Fisuer 
In a collection of buprestid beetles received for identification dur- 
ing the past year from E. McC. Callan, Lecturer in Entomology, 
Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, a number of 
undescribed species were found. These are here described as new. 
Mr. Callan is very much interested in the prey of wasps, and most 
of the species described in this paper were found in the cells of a 
sphecoid wasp (Cerceris sp.). 
Genus CHRYSOBOTHRIS Eschscholtz 
CHRYSOBOTHRIS CORNIGERA, new species 
Male—Small, oblong, subopaque, glabrous, purplish red above, 
pronotum sometimes with sides and anterior margin bright green, 
each elytron with three bright-green spots—an oblong spot in basal 
depression, an irregular transverse spot at middle, and. an irregular 
lunate spot at apical third; head bronzy green, with median part 
brownish black; antennae bronzy green, outer segments bluish green; 
body beneath strongly shining, black, with a faint purplish reflection, 
anterior legs in part blackish green or blue. 3 
Head very deeply, broadly, transversely depressed on vertex, feebly, 
triangularly flattened behind clypeus, armed on each side at vertex 
along margin of eye with a long, broad, subtriangular horn, which 
is flattened, slightly twisted, and acute at apex, surface glabrous, 
densely, finely granulose, sparsely, finely punctate; eyes narrowly 
elongate, widely separated on occiput, clypeus transversely sinuate in 
front, with a small, median notch, and a small, acute tooth on each 
side midway between notch and outer angle. Antenna slightly nar- 
590546—44 md 
