155 



Shilling, punctured, somewliat gil)bous in front, witli llic anterior 

 margin piceous. Scutelluni smoolli, l)lack, sliining, ^\illl a violel 

 coloured iridescence, Imt little elevated at tlie apcx. Elylra dark 

 metalJic green, witli tlie apex of a livid liorn colour, deeply jMinct- 

 ured; the punotures fonning regidar Striae lateralJy near the apex. 

 Legs horn-coloured, willi the tarsi dusky. Underside of the body 

 black, puhescent, with the apex of the abdonien horn-colonred. 



Lenglh ''/loo '^'^h [=1"']. In tlie cahinet of the Entomolo- 

 gical Society. Taken in the vicinity of Sidncy , New South Wales, 

 by Mr. Darwin." 



Saund. 1. c. 148. n. 14. 



Dürfte ebenfalls zu Loxopleurus gehören, 



XV. A p r c e r a b i c o 1 o r Saund. „Head ver tical , subtri- 

 goiiate, not so In'oad as the thorax, red brown; with the eyes kid- 

 ney-shaped and black. Antennae, arising froiii the sinus of the eyes, 

 black, 11 jointed, and rather more than two thirds the leiigth of 

 the body, puhescent, Tliorax as broad as the elytra, rounded and 

 gibbous in front, sinooth and shining, of deep reddish browii, nearly 

 as long as broad, with a broad shallow transverse furrow a little 

 behind the middle, and curving posteriorly. Scutelluni small, black 

 green, triangulär. Elytra nearly twice as long as broad, of a dark 

 black shining green, deeply and coarsely punctured in regulär Striae, 

 each elytron with- a large lateral lobe projecting downwards behind 

 the Shoulders. Body beneath reddish brown, puhescent, with the 

 region of the inetasternuin black , and the joints of the abdonien 

 also striped traiisversely with the same colour. Legs reddish brown, 

 with the apices of the femora and and tibiae, and the tarsi black. 

 Tarsi 4-jointed, ihird Joint deeply bilobed, the fourth Joint little cx- 

 ceeding it. 



Length '-^100 i»ch [=27(3"']- In 'he cabinet of tl^e Rev. F. 

 W. Hope. Habitat New Soulh Wales.'' 



Saund. I. c. 149. n. 1. tab. 9. flg. 3. 



XVL Aporocera apicalis Saund. „Head vertical, sub- 

 triangular, red brown, with tiie eyes kidncy-shaped and l)lack. An- 

 tennae iiiserted in sinus of the eyes, not so long and rather stouter 

 than in A. bicolor. Thorax red brown , gibi)ous and rounded in 

 front, as broad as the elytra, with a wide shallow Iransverse furrow 

 curved posteriorly a little behind the middle, sinoolb and some- 

 wliat shining. Sculelluin sinall, triangulär, red brown, margined willi 



