BY H. J. CARTER. 79 



Head coarsely and closely punctate, a sulcus between eyes, 

 widening into an elongate smooth space. Prothorax 4 x 5 mm., 

 bisinuate at apex and base (more feebly so at apex), widest near 

 base, sides feebly rounded and converging anteriorly, nearly 

 straight posteriorly, front angles obtuse and declivous, posterior 

 angles (seen from above) rectangular; disc coarsely punctate as 

 on head, becoming coarser, with a tendency to latitudinal con- 

 fluence towards base, a smooth medial line terminating in a 

 fovea near base, lateral carina short, not visible from above. 

 Scutellum circular, with a depressed area behind it. Elytra of 

 same width as prothorax, and more than thrice as long, rather 

 deeply striate near suture, less deeply at sides, punctures coarser 

 than in B. inconsistans Thoms., two or more rows of punctures 

 crowded in the striae, and sometimes overflowing on the raised 

 intervals; anterior portion of elytra slightly rugulose, apex ob- 

 liquely bispinose, sutural spine longest, sides crenate near apex; 

 underside very coarsely punctate on prosternum, less coarse on 

 meso- and metasternum and legs, on abdomen becoming finer 

 towards apex, last segment rugose, metasternum sulcate. Dimen- 

 sions : 16-18 X 5*6 mm. 



Hab. — Cue, West Australia (H. W. Brown). 



I am indebted to Mr. Brown for two male specimens of this 

 most beautiful species of the genus. It differs widely in colour 

 alone from all described species. Type in the author's Collection. 



BUBASTES SUTURALIS, n.sp. 



Cylindric, brilliantly nitid, glabrous above, shortly albispilose 

 beneath. Head green or coppery, prothorax brassy on disc, 

 green at sides, elytra gold or coppery shading off to green later- 

 ally, with the sutural interval blue or violet, basal margin blue 

 or green, underside and legs bright green, antennae and tarsi 

 coppery-red, scutellum blue. 



Head concave and sharply striate between the eyes, coarsely 

 punctate, more sparsely so than in B. formosa^ and not at all 

 rugose. Prothorax (in 9, 3*5 x 5*5 mm.) more narrowly convex 

 than usual, apex feebly, base strongly bisinuate, sides feebly 

 widened, arcuately converging anteriorly, front angles rounded. 



