130 REVISION OP THE GENUS LAMPRIMA OF LATREILLE, 



Queensland, — -jugularis Westw. from Victoria, and parallelus 

 Dejr. from Queensland. Cacostoma one species, — squamosus 

 Newm., from Queensland, and Lamjirima a genus rather numer- 

 ously represented in all parts of Australia. 



It is to this last genus that the superb insect sent me by Mr. French 

 belongs, and before proceeding to describe and name it and some 

 other species of the genus in my collection, I shall take the 

 opportunity of making some general remarks on the present state 

 of our knowledge of all the species comprised in the genus. The 

 genus itself, remarkable for the metallic brilliancy of its colouring, 

 is sufficiently well defined, but the species are most difficult of 

 definition, and much confusion has consequently arisen in their 

 identification and nomenclature. I shall therefore briefly notice 

 all the species hitherto described, not to redescribe them, but to 

 point out the charactei's which seem to me most suitable and 

 available for noting specific difierences. 



LaMPRIMA iENEA. Fab. 



This species was first described by Fabrieius in ISOl in his 

 " Systema Eleutheratorum " under the name of Lethrus ceneus. A 

 few years afterwards it was described by Schreibers in the 6th 

 Volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 

 under the name of Lueanus aeneus; and in 1807, Latieille in his 

 " Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum " made for its reception the 

 genus Lamprima. The species has also been described in the 

 ■writings of W. S. Macleay, Burmeister and Reiche. In Gemminger 

 and Harrolds " Catalogus Coleopterorum " Lamprima cuprea 

 Latreilla, with the habitat of Sydney, is given as a synonym of the 

 female of L. aenea and Lamprina viridis Erichson from Tasmania 

 is placed as a variety of L aenea. 



