78 SIX NEW SPECIES OP bupubstid^, 



Head coarsely dentate, with a short carina between eyes, and 

 a triangular impression on epistoma. Pi'othorax as in B. lO-iiotata 

 L. & G., widest at base, sides nearly straight, slightly converging 

 to apex, front angles depressed and obtuse (from above), posterior 

 acute, disc with a wide medial sulcus, and two large basal foveas, 

 irregularly punctate. Scutellum small, transverse. Elytra as 

 wide as prothorax, and thrice and one-half as long, widened 

 behind middle, apex trispinose, outside and sutural spines short 

 and sharp, the middle blunt and rounded; striate-punctate, the 

 striae forming deep sulci at apex and sides, showing the punctures 

 more than in B. decemnotata, intervals convex and punctate 

 underside very lightly and shortly villose, and finely punctate. 

 Dimensions : 13'5-15 x 4*5-6 mm. 



Hah. — Uorrigo, New South Wales (W. Heron). 



I have received five specimens of this, which may very well be 

 only a melanic variety of the well known B. decemnotata L. & G., 

 { = B. aurantiopicta L. & G 1). I have, moreover, a specimen from 

 Queensland (Mr. R. lUidge), which is similar to the above except 

 in showing a small indication of a red mark on the 7th interval 

 behind the middle; but the apex of the elytra differs from that 

 in six specimens of B. decemnotata before me [which agree with 

 Saunders' figure in being bispinose, not truncate, as in his de- 

 scription (Trans. Ent. Soc.,'1868, p.7)]. In the (J, the apex of 

 abdomen is truncate; in the 9> oval. Types in the author's 

 Collection. 



]}fote. — In one of my six specimens of B. 10-notata., the two 

 postmedial spots are confluent, forming a short fascia, as in the 

 ficrure of B. aurantiopicta given by Laporte & Gory, and oddly 

 enough also in that of B. 10-nota.ta. 



BUBASTES FORMOSA, n.Sp. 



Cylindric, nitid, and glabrous; head (on forehead only), pro- 

 notum, and elytra a rich blue (in one example, the elytra some- 

 what greenish); epistoma, mouth, antennae, and a triangular 

 patch on apex of forehead, sides of prothorax, sides and apex of 

 elytra, together with the underside and legs, brassy, (the sides of 

 elytra less nitid than the rest, and, towards the apex, rather red 

 than brassy). Scutellum green. 



