BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 95 



A. SUAVIS, Sp.liOV. 



Elongato-ovalis ; nitidus ; niger, elytris versicoloribus (pur- 

 piireis, viridi- cyaneo- et aureo-tinctis), antennarum apice 

 tarsisque obscure testaceis ; antennis oculis et capite toto 

 fere ut A. cnyri sed clypeo a fronte sutura iisitata diviso ; 

 prothorace quam longiori tribiis partibus (postice quaiii antice 

 duabus partibus) latiori, distincte vix crebre punctulato, 

 antice siiiuatim emarginato, lateribus fere rectis, basi media 

 sublobata, angulis anticis subprominulis posticis obtusis ; 

 elytris seriatim piinctulatis, puncturis in seriebus sat magnis 

 nee inter se sequalibus, interstitiis sat planis minus perspicue 

 (nisi sub lente forti) punctulatis ; prosterno (exempli typici) 

 medio planato ; metasterno medio et abdominis parte antica- 

 raediana puncturis sparsis minus subtilibus impressis; femori- 

 bus anticis antice vix manifesto punctulatis ; tarsis subtus 

 fulvo-setosis, posticorum articulo basali quam ceteri conjuncti 

 sabbreviori. [Long. 3-^, lat. 1^ lines. 



This species is not very close to any other that I have seen ; 

 perhajjs it comes nearest to ^. cupido, Pasc, but differs from it 

 by its darker autennse (with only the apical joints a little paler) 

 and its colour, cupido (according to description and an example in 

 my collection which I refer to it) being a much more beautifully 

 coloured species with light blue iridescence, and (if my identifi- 

 cation is correct) more finely punctured prothorax and elytra. 

 In the present sj)ecies the prothoracic puncturation resembles 

 that of Chalcopierus cupripennis but is a little closer, aud the 

 seriate punctures of the elytra are of somewhat unequal size (the 

 larger ones being distinctly larger than those of Chalcopierus 

 variahilis^ Blessig) and not very close, — the intervals between 

 puncture and puncture being in places not much less than the 

 diameter of a puncture ; the largest punctures are near the front 

 of the dorsal series. 



N. S. Wales ; taken near Sydney by Mr. Lea. 



