134 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIII. 



This memoir has excited a dispute between Leon Dufour arid Goureau 

 (ib. pp. 253, 257), caused by the latter's committing, in such a careful 

 observer, a most extraordinary blunder, in describing the prothorax as the 

 head. (For the rest I have only to refer to my paper on the Coleopterous 

 larva, in the Archiv, f. 1841, 1 Bd. p. 82.) 



Blanchard (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. Fr. 2 ser. i, p. 321) has given a summary 

 of the already existing observations on the larvse of the Buprestides. 



The following are the newly-described species of this family : 



Sternocera lanifica, of the Reporter (Arch. Yr. 1. vol. i. p. 223), from 

 Angola. Sternocera liturata, var. Ctirrori, White (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, 

 p. 266), from Zaira (Congo), might probably be the same species, but the 

 author has not expressed himself with regard to the sculpture of the thorax; 

 the original species, St. liturata, Burch. from the Cape, is evidently St. 

 Orissa, Buq. A second species, very well marked by the longitudinally 

 wrinkled elytra, from Zaira (also from the Gaboon), is St.feldspathica (sic !), 

 White. (Ib. p. 267.) 



lulodis Clone!, Buquet (Rev. Zool. p. 22), from Socotra (an island on the 

 coast of Arabia), a well-marked species of which the author (Ann. d. 1. Soc. 

 Eiit. d. France, 2 ser. i, p. 97, t. 4) has figured an individual with deformed 

 antennae ; besides these, are lulodis Eotliii (Sturm, Catal. p. 328, pi. 1, fig. 5), 

 from Jerusalem. /. intncafawaAmlcata. Redtenbacher (Russegger's Reis. i, 

 s, 982), from Syria. 



White (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 342) characterizes 4 species of Chrysocroa: 

 Ch. (Catoxanthd) opnlentu, Dej., var. purpurea, Wh., from the Philippines, 

 distinguished from the original species by the purple ground colour, which 

 is also that of the breast ; Ch. pmlonga, Wh., new species from the 

 Philippines ; Ch. suUineata, Wh., from Bengal, is Ch. mutaUlis 01. (mar- 

 ffinata, Gory) ; Ch. ocellato, var. ephippigera, Wh., an unimportant variety of 

 Ch. ocellata. If each variety is to receive a name, every individual will soon 

 come to be so honoured. Chrysochroa Edicardsli, Hope (Trans. Liu. Soc. 

 xLx, p. 109, t. 10, fig. 4), from Sylhct, very nearly allied to Ch. Perrotetii, 

 Guer. 



Chalcophora i/t'mlrioculata, Redtenbacher (1. c. p. 983), from Syria. 



Buprestis Langii, Mannerheiin (BuU. Mosc. p. 237, n. 132), from Sitka. 

 Buprestis viridiazurea, Wh. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 267, from Zaira), con- 

 sidered as coming near to B. limbalis, 111. 



HyperciHtha (Pccclloiiotci) rittaticoUis, from Brazil, and stigmaticollis, from 

 Cordova, in South America, by Desmarest. (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. Fr. 

 2 ser. i, p. 17, t. 1.) 



Stlgmodcru ///v///W, Chevrolat (Rev. Zool. p. 201), from New Holland. 

 Sl.ftaicmt, While (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 344), from King George's Sound, 

 is an unimportant varicly of St. Ric/tci, Gon ; Si. conspicillata, id. (ib.), 



