496 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



It is not improbable that this is the insect which Sir W. 

 Macleay regarded as possibly the female of A. Odewahni. Both 

 sexes of that species are known to me ; the female differs from 

 the male only by the characters that are usual in the genus. 



S. Australia; basin of Lake Eyre. 



BUPRESTID^E. 



ASTRjEUS. 



In P.L.S.N.S.W., 1889, there are descriptions of three new 

 species of this genus from my pen. In the same year a monograph 

 of Astrceus by J. R. H. Neervoort van de Poll appeared in the 

 "Tijdschrift Ent.," containing descriptions of new species. As 

 might be expected the two clash, and it is clear to me that the 

 species which I described as A. Meyricki and A. Tepperi were 

 named by my colleague A. Badeni and A. Jansoni respectively. 

 My A. major does not appear in the monograph, which also 

 mentions (as did my paper) the identity of A. Master si, Mac!., 

 with A. Samonelli, Saund., and seems to indicate that A. pygmmus^ 

 Poll, is a good species and not (as I. suggested to be possible) a 

 var. of Samouelli. 



Melobasis monticola, sp.nov. 

 Subtus senea vix cuprascens, prosterno medio et abdomine 

 antice viridescentibus, epipleuris antice aureo-cupreis; capite 

 prothoraceque obscure cupreis ; elytris nigro-seneis, sutuia 

 antice et maculis binis discoidalibus (altera fere ad medium 

 altera sat longe ante apicem positis) laete aureo-cupreis ; 

 pedibus antennisque cyanescentibus ; capite (hoc fere piano) 

 creberrime rugulose, prothorace (hoc quam longiori fere 

 duabus partibus, postice quam antice tertia parte, latiori) sat 

 fortiter punctulatis ; scutello lsevigato, elytris sat fortiter 

 striatis, striis subtilius punctulatis, interstitiis (prresertim 

 alternis postice) nisi prope basin sat convexis, superticie 

 magna pone humeros sat fortiter transversim rugata; corpore 

 subtus fere glabro sat sparsim punctulato ; prosterno antice 

 declivi. [Long. b\-5\, lat. 1J-2J lines. 



