300 ^SERNtA AUSTRALICA. 



NOTE XLII. 

 DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF JISERNIA. 



BY 



MARTIN JACOBY. 



u^Esernia australica , nov. spec. 



Metallic green; the head, (a spot at the vertex excepted), 

 the thorax, the base of the anterior femora, the apices of 

 the elytra and the last abdominal segments , flavous ; tho- 

 rax with two greenish spots (sometimes absent). 



Length S^/g — 8^/3 lines. 



Elongate, subparallel; head impressed between the eyes, 

 flavous, the vertex with a triangular metallic greenish 

 aeneous spot; antennse half the length of the body, metal- 

 lic bluish or greenish, the basal joint fulvous below; 

 thorax twice as broad as long , the sides straight , the 

 posterior margin rounded at the middle, the surface im- 

 punctate, with a row of deep foveas near the lateral mar- 

 gins ; scutellum black ; elytra finely punctate-striate , with 

 a deep transverse depression before and another at the 

 middle , the sides near the lateral margins with three 

 elongate depressions , the apices very faintly punctured ; 

 the surface metallic green or purplish , interrupted at the 

 sides below the middle by a flavous band which occupies 

 the entire apex , its inner margin being deeply concave ; 

 underside and legs metallic greenish , the base of the an- 

 terior femora and the last abdominal segments flavous. 



Hab. Australia, Queensland. 



Notes from ttie Ley den Museum, Vol. IX. 



