Australian Buprestidce. 63 



band situate about the middle but not reaching the lateral 

 margins J and a somewhat triangular spot below it, green. 

 Underside green. 



Head deeply punctured, furrowed between the eyes. 

 Thorax widest behind the middle, half as broad again as 

 long ; anterior margin two-thirds the length of the base, 

 slightly elevated, and almost straight ; sides diverging 

 till past the middle, then rounded and converging to the 

 posterior angles, which are acute ; base with a deep cen- 

 tral lobe ; disk slightly depressed in the dorsal region, 

 largely and very closely punctured, the punctures so close 

 together as to give the surface a dull appearance. Ely- 

 tra widest at the shoulders, which are prominent, and 

 much wider than the base of the thorax, twice as long as 

 wide ; sides sinuate above the middle ; apex of each with 

 a small external spine ; disk punctate-sti"iate, interstices 

 finely and very closely punctured. Underside deeply and 

 closely punctured, with a few scattered white hairs. 



Length 3 lines; breadth 1 line. 



Hab. Port Philip. 



61. Stigmodera eupipennis, (PI. IV. fig. 5). 



Buprestis rufipennis, Kirby, Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. 456. 



Stigmodera rufipennis, (Hope, Bupr. p. 6); L. & G. ii. 



8tig. 21, pi. iv. fig. 21. 



Stigmodera crocipennis, (Hope, I. c); L. & G. I. c. 



fig. 20, var. 



Hab. Australia. 



I cannot think that the suffusing of the black colour 

 of the suture over the apex is sufficient to make croci- 

 pennis a distinct species from rufipennis ; and I cannot 

 perceive any other difference between them. 



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



(AcM^ODEEA, pars, Hope.) 

 1. Xyeoscelis crocata, (PL IV. fig. 15) . 



Amorphosoma crocatum,\j. & G. ii. Am. 13, pi. iii. fig- 16. 

 AcmcBodera nodosa, Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc. iv. 217. 

 AcmcBodera melanosticta, Hope, ibid. 

 Hab. Swan River. 



