Australian Bwprestidoe. 61 



^neous ; the sides of the thorax, portions of the 

 elytra, and the underside, covered with a hoary pubes- 

 cence. 



Head punctured, depressed between the eyes. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long ; anterior margin a little more than 

 half as long as the base^ produced in the centre and 

 at its angles, which quite enclose the eyes ; sides slightly 

 rounded; base with a rounded median lobe; surface 

 punctured and striated in semicircular curves ; sides 

 covered with a gray pubescence. Elytra three-quarters 

 as long again as wide ; sides slightly swelling out behind 

 the middle ; apex rounded, posterior margin finely denti- 

 culate ; disk finely rugose, with a scaly appearance, orna- 

 mented with a gray pubescence, leaving a spot surround- 

 ing the scutellum, a transverse band below the middle, 

 and a patch on each posterior margin, denuded. Under- 

 side and legs punctured, covered with a white pubes- 

 cence. 



Length 5 lines; breadth 2\ lines. 



Hab. Australia. 



I have examined Kirby's type-specimen, which is said 

 to have come from Nova Scotia. I cannot but suspect 

 some error of locality, since it seems to me scarcely pos- 

 sible that this undoubtedly Australian species should 

 belong to the North- American fauna. 



9. CiSSEIS ROSEOCUPKEA, (PL IV. fig. 28). 



Etlion roseocupreiim, Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc. iv. 219. 



" Totum corpus supra cupreum et punctatum, capite fo- 

 veolato, elytris Iffite cupreis et iridescentibus. Cor- 

 pus infra geneum, lateribus abdominis albido colore 

 irroratis, pedibus concoloribus." (Hope). 



Coppery red. Underside coppery bronze. Antennse 

 bronzy green. 



Head deeply punctured, furrowed between the eyes. 

 Thorax half as broad again as long ; anterior margin 

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

 sides rounded ; base slightly bisinuate ; surface punc- 

 tured and transversely ridged ; disk elevated in front ; 

 base and sides near the posterior angles depressed ; late- 

 ral carinas very slightly curved, running almost parallel 

 to the sides. Elytra finely rugose, three-quarters as long 



