BUPRE8TID QENU8 ASTRABU8. 107 



18. Astraeus Samouelli Saund. 



Stigmodera Samouelli Hope, Bupresüdae , (1836), p. 6, 



(unpublished tract). 

 Astraeus Samouelli Saund., Trans. T/nt. Soc LoìkL, 1868, 



p. 10, pi. 1, flg. 12. 

 Astraeus Samouelli v. d. Poll , Not. from the Leycl. Mus. , 



VIII (1886), p. 180. 



Praecedenii valde similis sed praecipue differì : statura rohustiore; 

 macula perparva in sinu Immer ali; macula posthumerali dual/us 

 maculis confueutihus composita. Eoderjt colore ac di lu tip e s sed 

 caput prothoraciscpie latera splendiora cuprea et viridi-aurea; pedes 

 cyanei , apicihus tihiarum et articuUs primis tarsorum testaceis. 



var. 31 a stersi Mc. Leay , Ä typo differì , macula Jiava post- 

 humerali cum macula secunda suh-suttirali confluente. 



Long. 8i — 10 mm., lat. 34 — 4i mm. 



Habitat: N. S. Wales. 



Shining, head bright green in front and purple-brown on the 

 vertex ; in the female , bright golden with the vertex coppery in the 

 male; prothorax purple-brown with the sides bright green in the 

 female, dark coppery with golden green sides and indeCnite purple- 

 brown patches at the base near the median lobe in the male ; elytra 

 black , with cyaneous or purple reflections , each with six yellow 

 markings, a spot just at the base, an other one before the middle 

 close to the suture, a very small punctiform spot in the shoulder 

 edge, a large irregular spot (properly composed of two spots, 

 which is evident in one of my specimens , where they are separated on 

 the left elytron) below the shoulder, a small fascia below the middle, 

 which reaches the outer margin only , and a spot midway between 

 the apex and the fascia. Underside and legs green, cyaneous or viola- 

 ceous; tips of the tibiae and the first joint of the tarsi testaceous. 



Head closely punctured, with an elevated median line in front; 

 hairy. Antennae very long, chiefly in the male sex. Prothorax 

 convex, the front-margin slightly produced in the middle, sides 

 rounded and rather strongly narrowed towards the top, narrowly 



