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DESCRIPTIONS OF SIX NEW SPECIES OF 

 BUPRESTIDjE. 



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



The residence of a keen collector, like Mr. H. W, Brown, at 

 Cue, West Australia, has resulted in the capture of many inter- 

 esting Coleoptera in this little explored region. Besides a number 

 of new Tenebrionidse, the following six species of Buprestidse are 

 undescribed, five of which are from the Cue district. 



Chalcot^nia violacea, n.sp. 



$. Upper surface dark violet, with coppery depressions more 

 or less filled with yellow flocculence. Head with base, mouth- 

 parts, under margin of eye, and two basal joints of antennae 

 coppery, the rest of antennae piceous red, raised part of forehead 

 violet, central excavation fiavo-pulvulose, pronotum and elytra 

 violet on the raised, coppery or flavo-pulvulose on the depressed 

 parts; scutellum blue, underside, femora (except the apex) coppery, 

 albivillose, or floccose, apex of femora, tibise, and tarsi blue. 



Head with a large scutiform excavation on front, having an 

 interrupted carinate margin, an interrupted medial sulcus, basal 

 part closely, subconfluently punctate, antennae extending almost 

 to base of prothorax, two basal joints with large punctures, 3rd 

 cylindric, 4-11 serrate and successively shorter. Prothorax 

 5 X 6-5 mm., subquadrate, subsinuate at base and apex, all angles 

 produced and acute, posteriorly more sharply so and subdentate, 

 sides feebly rounded, converging anteriorly, and faintly sinuately 

 widening behind; disc with wide medial, and two wider lateral 

 sulci, the latter oblique, not at extreme sides, diverging apically 

 to the angles, and narrowly continued on basal line to meet 

 medial sulcus; space between sulci and extreme sides rugosely 

 and irregularly punctate, the sulci finely punctate, the ridges 

 wide and smooth except for a few large punctures. Scutellum 

 transverse, smooth. Elytra wider than prothorax at base, and 

 thrice and one-half as long, posterior sides very finely crenate or 



