BY H. J. CARTER. 303 



outwardly curved at base, then obliquely inwards, the acute tips meeting; a 

 wide tooth on inside of each near apex, the inferior basal area flattened into a 

 lamina projecting downwards; antennae with three apical joints wider than rest 

 • — these successively widening to apex — the two jjenultimate feebly dentate on 

 anterior side; the mandibles finely and sparsely punctate. 



Prothorax twice as wide as long, sides lightly narrowing from apex to base, 

 front angles semicircularly rounded, posterior widely obtuse, disc coarsely punc- 

 tate, eonfiuently at base and sides, nearly smooth at middle, medial channel in- 

 dicated near front; a few irregular depresseil areas on disc. IScuteUum semi- 

 circular, nitid, with a few large punctures. Elytra of same width as prothorax 

 at base, feebly widening towards middle, naiTowly margined, surface closely 

 and strongly punctate, except on three laevigate vittae; the first of these sutural, 

 the other two meeting on apical declivity, slightly diverging towards and con- 

 tinuous to base, the third near the middle of elytron; beyond this one or two 

 finer laevigate lines perceptible. Tibiae bidentate exteriorly and spinose inter- 

 nally at apex, fore-tibiae with about three teeth, the others with one on outside 

 edge, claws very slender; underside coarsely punctate on sternal areas, abdomen 

 smooth. 



$. Mandibles short — projecting about li mm. — stout and coarsely punctate, 

 without any defined internal tooth; prothorax with more clearly defined medial 

 line. 



Dimensions (including mandibles). <S. 20 x 8 mm. ?. 21 x 9 mm. 



Rah. — New South Wales: Eccleston, AUyn River. (Mr. John Hopson). 



Another of Mr. Hopson's discoveries in the hills adjoining the Harrington 

 plateau, and I name the species in his honour. Smaller than its allies, it is 

 clearly differentiated by the peculiar elytral sculpture, with its defined laevigate 

 vittae. L. tetrops Lea has a somewhat similar — though far more obscure — ar- 

 rangement, the smooth areas being bounded by single lines of minute punctures. 



Type in Coll. Cai-ter. 



BUPRESTIDAE. 



In the table of Cyphogastra given by the late Mons. Kerremans ("Mono- 

 graphie des Buprestides," T. iv., p. 163) C. pislor C. and G. is distinguished 

 from C. saundersi Macl. as follows: — 



"Elytres hordes exterieurement d'un large sillon premarginal, allant de 

 I'epaule au sommet pistor. 



Impression laterale de I'elytre n'atteignant pas le sommet saundersi. 



This distinction, however, is not only contradicted by the original description of 

 C. pistor by Castelnau and Gory, fully corroborated by the coloured figure in 

 the excellent monograph of those authors, but it is inconsistent with the detailed 

 description of C. pistor given by Kerremans himself on p. 179 of the work 

 (luoted above, where the lateral impression is thus described "la cinquieme" (im- 

 pression) "enfin, pilns courte, contre le bord exterieur, naissant ten avant, a la 

 hauteur de la precedente, mais terminee loin du sommet." The italics are mine. 



I have lately again closely examined the types of C. saundersi in the Macleay 

 Museum, and similar examples in the Masters Collection and the Australian 

 Museum (probable cotypes), and must reiterate the opinion I expressed (Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1916, p. 139) as to their identity with the correctly deter- 

 mined specimens of C. pistor in those collections — the superficial variations being 

 due to abrasion or immersion in spirit. 



