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ficies seneo-viridis est), antice recta, postice rotundata, marginem 

 posticam non attingente lateribus parallelis ; elytris singulis plagis 

 5, depressis pilis adpressis flavescenti-cinereis indutis ; 3 parvis ba^ 

 salibus, una elongata laterali, pilis longioribus duabus subovalibus 

 juxta suturam, una submediana ad latus alteraque maxima, pos- 

 tice attenuata. 



Hah. ad ripas fluminis Zaire. Dom. Curror coUegit. Long. unc. 1 . 

 lin. 7. 



By Laporte and Gory this would be regarded as a distinct spe- 

 cies, although eventually I believe it will be found to be a local 

 variety of Sternocera liturata. I have much pleasure in dedicating 

 this handsome Buprestis to Mr. Curror^ Surgeon of the Royal 

 Navy, while to Mr. BurchelPs I have assigned the name of Ster- 

 nocera liturata (var. Burchellii), 



Another Sternocera, of a bright purplish opalescent colour, and 

 nearly allied to ^S^. castanea, may be characterized as follows : — r 



Sternocera feldspathica. St. castanea, purpureo etviridi resplendens, 

 thorace lateribus plaga antica subtriangulari, dorse rude punctate, 

 elytris baud plagiatis lineatis, basi subareelatis, cerpere subtus 

 purpureo-nigre, subpileso, segmentis 3 posticis lateribus, plaga 

 pilerum. 

 Hah. ad oras Zaire vulgo Conge. Dem. Currer lexit. Long. unc. 1. 



lin. 7. 



Mr. Curror has also brought from the Congo a specimen of 

 Chrysochroa lepida, Lap. et Gory, Hist. Nat. et Icenogr, des Ins. 

 Coleopt. pi. 3. f. 9. 

 Buprestis lepida, Gory, Ann. Sec. Ent. de France, i. p. 383. pi. 12. 

 Buprestis dives, Dej., Cat. p. 85 (ed. 1837). 



And of the 

 Buprestis viridi-azurea. B. senee-rufescenti-viridis, lateribus ely- 

 trorum sulculo depresse, thorace senee, plagis variis subelevatia 

 viridibus, cerpere subtus senee. Long. lin. 11. 



I know not who applied the MS. name to this; it is closely allied 

 to Buprestis limbalis, lUiger. Lap. et Gory, op. cit. p. 78. pi. 20. 

 fig. 104. Our specimen came from Mr. Children's collection : the 

 label is in Bilberg's handwriting. 



Mr. Curror has brought amongst the Heteromera a specimen 

 of what I consider to be a local variety of the 



Epiphysa flavicollis, Dej., Cat. p. 197 {Leachii olim) \ Seller, Ann. 

 Sec. Ent. de France. 

 Pimeha flavicellis, Fahr., Ent. Syst. ; Syst. Eleuth. i. 128. 

 Pimelia inflata, Oliv. 

 Hah. ad eras fluminis Zaire. 



An Adesmia with verrucose elytra, in form somewhat resembling 

 Pimelia cothurnata of Klug (Ehrenberg's Bymbolce Phys.) is in Mr, 



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