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Descriptions of Twenty new species of Buprestidae. 

 By Edward Saunders, F.L.S., V.-P. Ent. Soc. 



[Read 6th May, 1872.] 



The following are characters of twenty new species of 

 BuprestidcB, belonging to various genera of that family. 

 I feel that a string of descriptions of unallied species is 

 always unsatisfactory ; but I have endeavoured to make 

 it as useful as possible, by stating the known species 

 to which each of those herein described is allied, and 

 also by giving the distinguishing characters, where the 

 species are closely related to each other. 



The new species are :— 



Amblysterna subvittaia 

 Chrysochroa Brownii 



„ punctatissima 



PMlochteanus igneiceps 

 Chrysaspis auricauda 

 Steraspis Welivitschii 

 Cyria elateroides 

 GhalcoteGma Ajax 



„ quadrisignata 



„ superba 



„ Martinii 



,, australasice 



Paraeiipta tibialis 

 Halecia maculicollis 

 Conognatha Badenii 

 „ Bogersii 

 „ paranaensis 

 Stigmodera rubricauda 

 „ unicincta 

 „ Duboulayi 



Zambesi. 

 Ceylon. 

 East Indies. 

 Burmah. 

 Cape Palmas. 

 Loando. 

 Swan River^ 

 Queensland. 



3) 



Nicol Bay. 

 N.W.Australia. 



Fiji Islands. 



Brazil. 



Nov. Fribourg. 



Minas Geraes. 



Parana. 



Queensland. 



Adelaide. 



Nicol Bay. 



Amblysterna subvittaia, n. sp. 



Convexa, aenea, capite rugoso-punctato, medio carinato. 

 Thorace fortiter punctate, basi lobato. Elytris rugose et 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1872. — PART III. (AUGUST.) 



