THE 



TRANSACTIONS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 

 FOR THE YEAR 1868. 



I. A B,evision of the Australian Buprestidee described by 

 the Rev. F. W". Hope. By Edward Sadnders. 



[ Bead 4th November, 1867. ] 



The large number of new species of Australian Bupres- 

 tidce contained in European collections have long re- 

 quired description; but the difficulty of this task has 

 been sei'iously augmented by the confusion which has 

 hitherto existed in the nomenclature of the already de- 

 scribed species. The first work of any importance on 

 the Buprestidce of Australia was printed by Mr. Hope in 

 1836, in which are mentioned all the species then known 

 to him from that part of the world. The descriptions, 

 however, which he gives are so short, and wanting in 

 specific character, as to be nearly useless ; and, besides this, 

 many of the insects he described as species can only be 

 considered as mere varieties. Messrs. Laporte and Gory 

 published their Monograph of the Buprestidce shortly 

 afterwards (1837-41), and although in their work they 

 have corrected many of the errors made by Mr. Hope, 

 they have fallen into several fresh ones, by describing 

 and figuring under Mr. Hope^s names species which do 

 not at all agree with his types. Subsequently to this 



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