CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 COLEOPTERA OF AUSTRALIA. 



By A. Sidney Olliff, F.E.S., 

 Assistant Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



No. III. — On the Genus Nascio (Fam. Buprestidse). 



In a recent number of the ' Notes from the Leyden Museum ' 

 (vol. vin., p. 121), Mr. J. R. H. Neervoort van de Poll, has 

 turned his attention to the Bupresticl genus Nascio, and has 

 published a synopsis of the species including three new forms. Of 

 these latter I have succeeded in identifying the Nascio simillima 

 which I have seen from the Endeavour River, Cloncurry and Port 

 Denison, Queensland. N. carissima (Waterhouse, Aid. I., pi. 95), 

 occurs in the vicinity of Sydney, where I have taken it in the 

 flowers of A?igophora, and there is a specimen from Tasmania in 

 the Macleay Museum. All the other recorded species of the 

 genus are known to me, and I now have the satisfaction of adding 

 three more to the list. 



Nascio chydaea, sp. n. 



Elongate, moderately broad and convex, very dark coppery 

 bronze, somewhat opaque ; head and prothorax coarsely and 

 closely punctured ; each elytron with two broad yellow fasciae and 

 the apex provided with inconspicuous spines. 



Head densely punctured, with a distinct median line, which is 

 slightly impressed in the middle. Prothorax moderately convex, 

 slightly narrower in front than behind, as strongly and closely 

 punctured as the head, with two foveolate inpressions on the disc, 



