THE 



TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



FOR THE YEAE 1869. 



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I. BescTiptions of Nine New Species of Buprestidss. By 

 Edward Saunders. 



[ Bead 4th January, 1869.] 



The species here described belong to the genera Sterno- 

 cera, Julodis, Catoxantha, C/irysaspis, Psiloptera, Pseud- 

 hyperantha, H^jperantlia, and Aclierusia. 



Two of these, Chrysaspis and Pseudfiyperantha, are new 

 genera. 



Chrysaspis will, I believe, shortly be described by 

 M. Henri Deyrolle, whose manuscript name I have here 

 employed, and therefore I have assigned no characters 

 to it. The second, PseudhypevantJia, is one of the most 

 anomalous insects with which I am acquainted in this 

 Family; it has the form o? Hyper antha, and the scutellum 

 of Belionota, both of which genera belong to the section 

 " Buprestides vrais" of Lacordaire ; and yet it is really 

 referable to the " Chalcophorides " of that author, in 

 which group I have placed it. 



Sternocera midtipunctata (PL I. fig. 2) . 



S. viridis ; thorace foveolis minutis excavate ; elytris 

 lineis quatuor fovearum albidarum ornatis; subtus 

 abdominis segmentis utrinque albifoveatis. 



Above, bright green; elytra each with four rows of 

 small, round, white pubescent fovese, and a larger one at 



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