Australian Buprestidce. 21 



Gen. CURIS, Laporte and Gory. 

 (Anthaxia^ pars, Hope.) 



1. CURIS CALOPTERAj (PI. IV. fig. 7). 



Bwprestis caloptera, Boisd. Voy. Astrol. ii. 93. 

 Stigmodera caloptera, L. & G. Stig. ii. 48, pi. xi. fig. 68. 

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

 Hab. Australia. 



2. CURIS AURIFERA, (PL IV. fig. 8) . 



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

 Stigmodera aurifera, L. & G. ii. Stig. 49, pi. xi.fig. 59. 



" Capite nigro-violaceo, inter oculos foveolato ; thorace 

 purpurascente, linea media marginibusque aureis ; 

 elytris serratis, striato-punctatis purpurascentibus, 

 sutura, lateribus externis ad medium disci iiuratis, 

 nitidis. Corpore infra nigro-violaceo, annulis ab- 

 dominis utrinque flavo-pilosis, antennis pedibusque 

 cyaneis.''' (Hope). 



Head green. Thorax cyaneous, with a dorsal line and 

 the sides golden. Elytra of the same colour as the 

 thorax, the suture and lateral margins just below the 

 shoulders golden, the apex coppery. Underside green. 



Head deeply punctured, impressed between the eyes. 

 Thorax half as broad again as long ; anterior margin 

 slightly produced, three-quarters the length of the base ; 

 sides rounded, posterior angles acute ; base nearly 

 straight ; disk punctured, with a broad impressed dorsal 

 line ; sides more deeply punctured than the disk, each 

 with a small round fovea midway between the anterior 

 margin and base. Elytra twice as long as wide; sides 

 very slightly sinuate above the middle, apex somewhat 

 attenuate and rounded, posterior margin finely denticu- 

 late, disk largely and irregularly punctured. Underside 

 and legs punctured, the sides of each abdominal segment 

 near the anterior margin, with a white pubescent spot. 



Length 7^ lines; breadth 2| lines. 



Hab. Australia. 



