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2. Melobasis gloriosa, (PL I. fig. 15). 



Buprestis gloriosa, (Hope^ Bupr. p. 7) ; L. & G. i. Btij'). 

 123, pi. xxxi. fig. 170. 



"Thorace viridi-^neo, elytris virescentibus, sutura, 

 fascia media, macula humerali in singulo, margini- 

 busque puniceis. Corpore infra viridi-asneo, nitido.^' 

 (Hope) . 



Head and thorax coppery-green, the disk of the latter 

 rather darker than the sides. Scutellum coppery. Ely- 

 tra golden-green, lateral margin coppery-brown, the 

 colour of the suture spreading out on the base so as to 

 extend rather more than half-way across each elytron ; 

 just above the middle the colour of the suture again 

 spreads out on each side, and in some specimens extends 

 to the lateral margins; there is another similar com- 

 mencement of a band just below the middle. Underside 

 bright green. Antennas cyaneous, their base green. 



Head deeply and rugosely punctured. Thorax half as 

 broad again at the base as long ; anterior margin a little 

 more than half as long as the base ; sides much rounded 

 in front, posterior angles slightly acute ; base almost 

 straight ; disk punctured, with a very faintly impressed 

 dorsal line, punctures on the sides deeper and closer 

 together ; sides slightly depressed near the posterior 

 angles. Elytra twice as long as wide ; sides subparallel 

 for nearly two-thirds of their length ; apex rounded ; 

 posterior margin denticulate; disk punctate-striate, the 

 strise vanishing on the sides; posterior suture elevated. 

 Underside punctured, with a few scattered white hairs. 



Length 6 lines ; breadth 2 lines. 



Hab. Swan E,iver. 



3. Melobasis splendida. 



Buprestis splendida, Don. Ins. Austr. pi, i. fig. 4. 

 Anthaxia splendida, (Hope, Bupr, p. 10) . 

 Hab. Australia. 



4. Melobasis supekba, (PL I. fig. 15 a). 



Anthaxia superha, (Hope, Bupr. p. 9) . 

 Buprestis superha, L. & G.i. Bup. 123, pi. xxxi, fig. 171. 

 " Caput cum thoi'acc auratum, punctatum ; elytris vio- 



