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NOTES ON SOME AUSTRALIAN TENEBmOKIDAE. AVITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES;— ALSO OF A NEW 

 GENUS AND SPECIES OF BUPEESTIDAE. 



By H. J. Carter, B. A., F.E.S. 



(With fourteen text-figiires.) 



Family BUPRESTIDAE. 



Ctrioides, n. sen. Clirysocbroinorum (Text-fig. 1). 



Near Cijria, but differs from that g'enus in the following: particulars. An- 

 terior margin of prosternum straight, without medial notch or lobe: presternum 

 furrowed in middle, narrowed and rounded at apex to fit into mesosternal ex- 

 cision. Antennae. — 1st joint long, bent and thickened at 

 apex, 2nd sliortly obconic, 3rd longer than 4th, but con- 

 siderably shorter than 1st; 4th-8th subequal. elongate sub- 

 triangular and flattened, lltli elongate ovoid. 



Posterior tarsi with 1st joint not as long as the two 

 following combined; last abdominal segment of c? with 

 wide triangular excision at apex between two rounded 

 lobes; of 9 round and subacuminate. 



Following Kerreman's table of the tribe in the "Genera 

 Tnsectonim." Cijrioides is separated from all other describ- 

 ed genera, except Cyria and Epistomentis by having its an- 

 tennal cavities small and rounded. From Epintomentis it 

 differs in having the 3rd antennal joint decidedly shorter 

 than the 1st; the strongly bisinuated front of prothorax; 

 the proportions of the hind tarsal joints; and the abdomen 

 not carinated in any part. 



Ctrioide.s ses-spilota^ n.sp. (Text-fig. 1.) 



Navicular, rather flat, smooth; nitid black above with 

 the posterior sides of pronotum sanguineous and each ely- 

 tron with 3 yellow spots, the first small, jiosthumeral (not 

 seen from above), the second large and ovate, opposite 

 lateral tooth and nearer sides than suture, the third of 

 same size and foiin as the second on posterior third. Legs 

 and underside with long white hair, the smooth parts nitid 

 black with metallic reflections. Head carinated in front, 

 furrowed on vertex, with large sparse punctures. Pm- 

 thorax 5 X 4J mm., widest at ba.sp, bisinuate at base and 

 apex — more strongly so at apex — the medisn lobe of this 

 Cyrioides sex-spi/o/a. l"""''«C'e(i foi-ward; scarcely (in <?) or nit (in ?) excised, 

 n.sp. .mterior angles acute (as seen from above), >ides very little 



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Text.fig. 1. 



