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Cryptodus debilis, sp.nov. 

 Oblongo-ovatus ; minus depressus ; fuscus, aiitennarum 

 dava testacea ; sat nitidus ; mento pilis perlongis ferrugiueis 

 sparsim vestito, basi depressa truncata ; capite haud tubercu- 

 lato, antice sequaliter sat for titer rotundato, margine libero 

 fortiter reflexo, crasse fortiter sat crebre (clypeo, reticulato-ru- 

 gato magis quaui puuctulato, excepto) punctulato, antennis 9- 

 articulatis,articulo 1° (2""° vixsupereminenti) parum dilatato ; 

 prothorace quam longiori circiter tertia parte latiori, antice 

 sat fortiter angustato, fortiter minus crebre punctulato, postice 

 longitudinaliter late leviter sulcato, lateribus sat fortiter arcii- 

 atis, angulis anticis acutis parum productis, posticis rotundatis, 

 basi media late sat fortiter lobata utriuque sat manifeste 

 impressa ; scutello crasse leviter punctulato ; elytris lineato- 

 punctulatis, puncturis ocellatis a sutura ad marginem lateralem 

 gradatim obsoletescentibus, interstitiis nonnullis subelevatis ; 

 pygidio sat crebre ocellato-punctulato ; tibiis anticis extus 

 fortiter acute 3-dentatis. [Long. 6, lat. 3§ lines. 



The mentum is declivous immediately in front of its base which 

 is truncate (its shape thus being the reverse of what is usual in 

 the genus) ; this character, — and the antennae of 9 joints, of 

 which the 1st is very much less dilated than in C. jnceus, cavi- 

 ceps, &c., and is produced on its upper side scarcely beyond the 

 apex of the 2nd joint, — will at once distinguish the present insect 

 from all its previously described congeners. 



N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. Hedbloom. 



BUPRESTID^. 



Chalcophora pedifera, sp.nov. 



Supra viridi-nigra, capite antice igneo-cupreo, prothorace 

 ad latera et elytrorumspatiis depressis, (nonnullis basin versus 

 et pone humeros maculatim positis, altero rotundato sat 

 magno disci in medio posito, alteroque postice marginem 

 lateralem versus pedi formam simulante) Isete viridibus plus 

 minus aureo-pubescentibus ; corpore subtus laete viridi, 



