BUPRESTIÜ GENUS A8TRAEUS. 95 



tilius in abdomine. Caput, prothorax et pars infera pubescentia 

 minutissima serìcea induta. 



Long. 8 — 9J- mm., lat. 3|- — 4 mm. 



Habitat: Adelaide, Gawlcr, Kangaroo Isl. 



Shining, head and thorax l)ronzy-green , the latter with strong 

 violaceous reflections, elytra black with a cyaneous, violaceous or 

 bronzy-green hue; underneath and legs dark bronzy-green. Each 

 of the elytra ornated with eight yellow spots, viz. a row of five 

 spots along the suture, the first at the base, the second before 

 the middle, the third and smallest just in the middle, the fourth 

 below the middle and the fifth close to the apex, and a row of 

 three spots at the outer margin , the first occupying the shoulder 

 edge, the second opposite the interval between the 2nd and 3rd 

 suturai spot and the third placed abreast with the 4th suturai one. 



Head coarsely punctured, hairy. Prothorax convex, rather short, 

 sides strongly rounded and narrowed towards the top, indistinctly 

 bordered along the front and lateral margins ; deeply punctured , 

 the punctures becoming larger and almost confluent at the sides; 

 hairy. Elytra strongly narrowed below the middle, apices rather 

 strongly diverging, armed with long and acute suturai and marginal 

 spines, the humeral fold large, broadly rounded; costate, the 

 interstices plain, shallowly punctured and transversely wrinkled. 

 Undersurface closely punctured, very minutely on the abdomen; 

 clothed with a delicate silvery pile. 



Variability. The central yellow spots of the suturai row have 

 a tendency to disappear. I have, however, not yet seen a spe- 

 cimen in which they are entirely absent, but in one specimen 

 the central spot is present on the right elytron only. 



Number of specimens examined: ten, in coll. Oberthiir and van 

 de Poll. Dedicated to Mr. E. W. Janson. 



9. Astraeus crassus v. d. Poll. 



xLstraeus Jiavopictus v. d. Poll, Not. from the Leijd. Mus., 

 VHI (1886), p. 180. 

 Latus, nltidissi?nus, supra purjiureo-fuscus , subtus dilutins cupreo- 



