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ders , hardly diverging at the apices , the sutural and mar- 

 ginal spines short and obtuse ; deeply striated , the interstices 

 about equally elevated and transversely rugosely striated. 



underside closely punctured, more finely on the abdomen. 



This species differs largely from all the other known 

 species by the sculpture of the elytra , the strigiform spots , 

 the hardly diverging suture etc. 



2. Astraeus elongatus^ v. d. Poll. 



Elongatus , angnsfus , nitidus. Caput viride , in vertice oh- 

 scurius ; prothorax viridis , in rnedio nigrescens ; elytra atro- 

 coeridea , singula elytra septenis inaculis flavis ornata; pars 

 infera pedesque colore laete viridi nitentia. Caput fronte 

 crebre , vertice sparsim , punctatum. Prothorax convexus , 

 lateribus apicem versus nonnihil angustatis ; fortiter punctatus ^ 

 lateraliter subrugosus. Elytra apicibus divergentibus , spinis 

 suturalibus et marginalibus validis , subacutis ; singula elytra 

 supra costis novenis acutis , lateraliter striis binis , interstitiis 

 sparsim punctatis. Subtus crebre punctatus , in abdomine sub- 

 tilius sed densissime; pubescentia minutissima grisea indutus. 

 — Variat. thorace in medio cyanescente , elytris laetioribus. — 

 Long. 10 mm. , lat. 3 mm. 



Habitat Australia occ. and Queensland. — In mus. nostro. 



Head green , with the vertex dark bluish green ; pro- 

 thorax green with the median lobe somewhat blackish; 

 elytra black with a cyaneous tinge , each of them ornated 

 with seven irregular round yellow spots , viz. : a row of 

 four spots close to the suture , the first at the base , the 

 second before the middle, the third just below the middle 

 and the fourth midway between this and the apex , and a 

 row of three spots, corresponding with the interstices of 

 the first row, at the outer margin. Undersurface and legs 

 bright shining golden-green. 



The specimen from Queensland varies in having the central 

 portion of the thorax cyaneous, while the elytra are also 

 more bluish. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. "VIII. 



