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collection several species evidently congeneric with it, which, how- 

 ever, I had not ventured to attribute to this genus on account 

 of their scutellum being of a form different from that which 

 M. Lacordaire attributes to Strigoptera (stated by him to be 

 identical with Castalia). In these species it is very small and 

 more or less transverse instead of in the form of a very elongate 

 triangle. On M. Deyrolle's authority, I think I may treat them 

 as Strigoptera without danger of serious error. As I cannot find 

 that S. Frenchi has been described, I give a short description of 

 it below. 



Strigoptera frenchi, sp.nov. (?). 



Elongata ; minus convexa, elytris pone medium sat dilatatis ; 

 nitida ; supra cupreo-aenea, latera versus aureo-cupreo micans; 

 corpore subtus pedibusque violaceis, illo hie illic viridi-mi- 

 canti ; capite sat fortiter crebre punctulato, longitudinaliter 

 postice subtiliter impresso, inter oculos transversim late 

 arcuatim subimpresso et mox ante partem impressam tumido 

 vel subtuberculato ; prothorace fortiter rugulose punctulato, 

 medio in parte postica canaliculato quam longiori vix plus 

 quam dimidio latiori, postice quam antice circiter quarta 

 parte latiori, margine antico basique leviter bisinuatis, lateri- 

 bus leviter arcuatis, latitudine majori paullo pone medium 

 posita, angulis posticis acute rectis ; scutello lsevi (exempli 

 visi viridi) ; elytris singulis costis 4 obscuris irregularibus 

 instructis interspatiis sat crasse sat rugulose confuse punctu- 

 latis, lateribus (his retrorsum gradatim magis late marginatis) 

 pone humeros sinuatis, postice subtiliter crenulatis, apice 

 anguste oblique truncato, sutura ad apicem breviter spinosa; 

 corpore subtus sat sparsim (prosterno magis crebre) minus 

 fortiter punctulato ; segmento ventrali apicali postice pro- 

 ducto, ad apicem truncato, truncatura utrinque leviter 

 angulato-producta ; segmentis ventralibus 4 ad latera fossa 

 profunda rotunda utrinque impressis. [Long. 8, lat. 3 lines. 



Very distinct from all other Australian Buprestidce known to me. 



Victoria ; mountains of Gippsland. 



