NEW SPECIES OF BUPRESTID BEETLES—FISHER 409 
marginal carinae sinuate, separated their entire length, more widely 
separated anteriorly; anterior margin strongly sinuate, median lobe 
strongly produced and broadly rounded; base arcuately emarginate 
on each side, median lobe shallowly, arcuately emarginate in front of 
scutellum; prehumeral carinae short, arcuate, vaguely indicated; disk 
convex, shallowly depressed along sides, shallowly, transversely con- 
cave on basal half, without a median depression; surface glabrous, 
densely, finely granulose, finely, transversely, irregularly rugose; 
finely, sparsely punctate between rugae. Scutellum finely, trans- 
versely carinate. 
Elytra broadly, shallowly constricted in front of middle, slightly 
flattened or depressed along sutural margins, tips separately broadly 
rounded and finely dentate; surface finely, densely imbricate-punc- 
tate, sparsely, uniformly clothed with short, recumbent, white hairs. 
Abdomen slightly exposed above, strongly convex beneath; surface 
finely, densely granulose, vaguely imbricate, sparsely clothed with 
short, recumbent, white hairs; vertical portions of sternites not dis- 
tinctly pubescent; first visible sternite longitudinally depressed at 
middle, with a small gibbosity on each side of depression, suture obso- 
lete between first and second sternites. Prosternum finely, densely 
eranulose, slightly rugose, sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, 
white hairs; prosternal lobe broadly rounded in front; prosternal 
process broad, sides parallel, truncate and with an acute median tooth 
at apex, not expanded behind coxal cavities. Tarsal claws similar on 
all feet, cleft near middle, inner tooth of each very short and not 
turned inward. 
Female.—Differs from the male in having the front of the head 
cupreous, the antenna extending to the apical third of the pronotum, 
and the first abdominal sternite convex at the middle. 
Length 4.5-5.5 mm., width 1-1.2 mm. 
Type locality —Mundo Nuevo, Trinidad, British West Indies. 
Type.—vU.S.N.M. No. 56872. Allotype returned to Mr. Callan. 
Remarks.—Described from one male and one female (male type) 
collected at the type locality, April 4, 1948, in the cells of a sphecoid 
wasp (Cerceris sp.) by E. McC. Callan. 
U.S.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944 
