S80 Mr. Kiuby's Century of Insects. 



This insect stands ia the Banksian cabinet as Carahus calidus 

 Fabr. ; but since that specimen was not labelled by Fabricius, and 

 does not agree either with his description or that of Olivier, I 

 conceive my insect to be nondescript. 



ciirvipes. 7- C. nigro-aeneum, obscurum, elytris striatis : punctis 

 impressis inauratis triplici serie, tibiis posteriori- 

 bus arcuatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 11^. 



Habitat in Brasilia. D. Hancock. 

 Praicedenti simillimum sed minus, supra magis obscurum, tactu 

 scabrum. Caput et Thorax punctulis minutissimis confertissimis 

 confluentibus tecta; hie totus concolor postice angustior. Ely- 

 tra fere ut in praecedente, sed unicolora nee margine viridi : striis 

 interstitiis haud punctatis, et omnibus transverse impresso- 

 lineatis. Puncta inipressa inaurata triplici serie. Epipleura 

 postice magis conspicua. Tibia quatuor posteriores arcuatae. 



(Jiuprestida). 



BUPRESTIS. 



piilchella, 8. B. elytris acuniinatis scabris : fasciis duabus ob- 

 scuris albis, corpore lineari cyaneo. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 4§. 



Habitat in Australasia. D. MacLeay. 

 Corpus angustum, lineare, cyaneum, punctatum. Caput orbicu- 

 latum, postice longitudinaliter impressum. Antennce breves, 

 serratse. Thorax ex rugulis transversis scaber, postice utrinque 

 elevatus et in medio foveatus. Scutcllum transversum, brevis- 

 simum, supra linea elevata. Elytra amoene violacea, ex gra- 

 nulis complanatis scabra, sericeo-obscura, pone medium utrin- 

 que tumida, basi in medio inipressa, apice attenuata et extus 



mu crone 



