Australian Buprestidce. 7 



2. Chalcotjenia Lamberti, (PI. I. fig. 8). 



Evides? La-mbertii, (Hope, Bupr. p. 9). 



Chrysodcma Lamberti, L. & G. i. Chrysod. 14, pi. iv. fig. 18. 



"Thorace cupreo-asneo punctate, medio sulcato; elytris 

 marginatis serratis viridibus, quinque bronzeis lineis 

 elevatis. Corpora infra viridi, segnientis abdominis 

 utrinque farinoso-flavo-maculatis.^^ (Hope) . 



Coppery-brown. Thorax with its dorsal line, and each 

 elytron with four strige, green. Underside and legs green, 

 shining ; each abdominal segment with a yellow pubes- 

 cent spot on the side. 



Head deeply punctured, largely excavated and chan- 

 nelled between the eyes. Thorax half as broad again as 

 long; anterior margin three-quarters the length of the 

 base, slightly produced in the centre and at its angles ; 

 sides slightly curved near the anterior angles, then almost 

 straight to the base, which is very largely and deeply 

 punctured with a strongly impressed dorsal line; each 

 side with two deeply punctured fovese, one of which is 

 placed close to the posterior angle, the other just above 

 it. Elytra punctured, wider than the thorax, twice and 

 a fifth as long as wide, each with four deep wide stria3 ; 

 sides gradually converging to the apex ; posterior mar- 

 gins finely dentate. Underside and legs punctured, with 

 a few scattered hairs, and two pubescent spots on each 

 abdominal segment. 



Length 13 lines; breadth 4 lines. 



Hab. Australia. 



Gen. CYPHOGASTRA, H. Deyrolle. 



(EviDES, pa7^s, Hope.) 



1. Cyphogastra faeinosa, (PI. I. fig. 9). 



Buprestis farinosa, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii. 195. 



Evides farinosa, (Hope, Bupr. p. 9) . 



Chrysodema farinosa, L. & G. i. Chrysod. 21, pi. v. fig. 28. 



Hab. North Australia. 



Gen. PROSPHERES, (H. Deyr. MS.). 



(Ancylocheira, jpars, Hope.) 



1. Peospheres aurantiopicta, (PI. IV. fig. 6). 



Ancylocheira? decostigma, (Hope, Bupr. p. 7). 



Buprestis aurantiopicta, L. & G. i. Bup. 132 (wee fig.) . 



" Capite atro, thorace nigro-bronzeo punctulato, fossula 



