by charles w. de vis, b.a. 409 



Notices of some Undescribed Species of Coleoptera in the 



Brisbane Museum. 



By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. 



Mr. De Yis the Curator of the Brisbane Museum, sent me lately 

 some hundreds of species of Coleoptera, (which he had picked out 

 of the Museum collection), without name, and in most instances 

 without any indication of locality or even country. He sent them 

 in the hope that I might be able, by reference to my very large 

 collection in that branch of Natural History, to furnish him with 

 the names of some of them at least. This, I am glad to say, I 

 shall be enabled to do, to a very considerable extent, but it is 

 a work that demands time, and it will probably be weeks before 

 I shall have got entirely through the collection. I find, so far as 

 I have gone, that there are a number of species new to me, and 

 these or such of them as I can confidently pronounce from my 

 previous acquaintance with the groups to which they belong to be 

 undescribed, I shall from time to time name and describe. I may 

 mention that in most cases each species is represented by a single 

 specimen only, so that the identification of the genus by dissection 

 becomes impossible, without destroying or injuring the insect ; 

 these cases I have been compelled to pass by altogether. 



Fani. CABABID^E. 

 Pamborus viridi-aureus. 



Of the general form and sculpture of P. alternans, but much 

 smaller, proportionately shorter, and more brilliant in colouration. 



The head is black, the palpi and antenna? piceous, the 

 terminal seven joints of the latter clothed with yellowish pile. 

 The thorax is longer than broad, emarginate at the apex, 

 rounded on the sides, and becoming narrower at the posterior 

 angles, which are not quite so largely produced as in P. alternans ; 

 the upper surface is a little convex, very nitid, and black with a 

 golden green reflection, particularly on the lateral margins and 

 posterior angles ; the median and two basal lines are deeply marked. 



