78 Mr. W. E. Shuckard’s Descriptions 
The abdomen deeply atrous and slightly shining, but without 
any silvery reflection. ? . 
From Van Diemen’s Land. 
In the Collection of Mr. Westwood. 
Obs. — This species is distinguished from all its black congeners 
by the way in which its recurrent nervures are received in the 
second submarginal cell ; it is also remarkable for its intensely 
atrous hue, without any of the silvery reflection which is seen in 
them. I am not sure that this is peculiar to it, for it may have 
arisen from immersion in spirits of wine, which the specimen has 
much the appearance of having undergone. I have much pleasure 
in dedicating it to my friend Mr. Westwood, whose highly interest- 
ing Collection has furnished me with the means of describing seve- 
ral new species in this much-neglected genus. 
Species 4. Pison auratus, Shuck. 
Niger, subtiliter punctatus, aureo-pubescens ; segmento primo et ultimo 
abdominis marginibus reliquis et pedibus rufo-testaceis. $ . 
Length 6 lines. 
Black ; delicately punctured ; entirely covered with a dense 
golden pubescence, which is thickest upon the face and clypeus, 
the cheeks, collar, sides of the mesosternum and metathorax and 
the depressed margins and sides of the segments of the abdomen. 
The first five joints of the antennae and the mandibles, except their 
apex, rufo-testaceous, as well as the legs, the calcaria and apical 
pulvilli of which are black ; the tarsi and tibiae all simple. The 
metathorax laterally delicately punctured, the central carina very 
conspicuous : the petiolated second submarginal cell rather large, 
and distinctly receiving the recurrent nervures within it, although 
close to the transverso-cubitals. The tegulae testaceous ; the wings 
clouded, their nervures piceous. 
The abdomen rufo-testaceous, with the base of the intermediate 
segments black. $> . 
From the Cape of Good Hope ? 
In my own Collection. 
Obs. — This is a very beautiful insect ; the size of the petiolated 
cell is a little larger than in its congeners. Its sculpture is appa- 
rent only where its pubescence is rubbed off, and I expect that, in 
fine condition, it is wholly covered with the golden down. I am 
doubtful of its true locality, but I think it is from the Cape. 
