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ginato ; elytris leevibus nisi juxta marginem lateralem trans- 
versim strigatis, sutura postice carinata et ad apicem 
spinoso-producta ; pygidio concentrice sat fortiter strigato ; 
subtus sublevis vel potius obsolete sparsissime punctulata, 
segmentis ventralibus singulis utrinque spatio crebre oblique 
strigato ornatis ; processu mesosternali elongato sat horizon- 
tali. 
Maris capite elongato, tibiis anticis extus (processu apicali 
excepto) dente minuto subapicali (et altero submediano haud 
vel vix manifesto) armatis ; abdomine longitudinaliter 
concavo. 
Feminz capite minus elongato, tibiis anticis extus dentibus 3 
(apicali incluso) sat fortibus armatis ; abdomine sat eequali- 
ter convexo, segmento 5° postice puncturis nonnullis sat 
magnis impressis. Long., 13 1.; lat., 64. 
I cannot find among the numerous species of IJschiopsopha 
described (some of them as Lomaptere) as occurring in New 
Guinea and Malay that this large and magnificent insect has a 
place. Compared with J. (Lomaptera) pulciripes, Thoms., the 
present species is larger and of a more robust build,—differently 
colored, its green tending towards blue whereas that of 
pulchripes tends towards golden,—its head is very similar except 
more finely sparsely and faintly punctured, especially in the 
hinder part,—its prothorax is much more strongly transverse, 
devoid of transverse strigosity, and very much less strongly 
punctured (the punctures even close to the lateral margin being 
very sparse and scarcely so strongly impressed as those halfway 
between the middle of the prothorax and the lateral margin in 
pulchripes),—its elytra are practically punctureless (in the 
female the punctures where most distinct are scarcely so much 
so as in the middle of the prothorax of pu/chripes, in the male 
they are still fainter) their sutural apex is more prominent, and 
their system of submarginal transverse scratches is almost 
exactly as in Hemipharis insularis, L. and G.,—its legs are very 
differently colored,—its whole surface under a strong lens is seen 
to be finely coriaceous or covered evenly with a system of exces- 
sively close and fine puncturation underlying all the other sculp- 
ture. The bluish tone of color is more marked in the males than 
females. 
N. Queensland ; taken by Captain Edmund Bourke, R.N., and 
presented to me. 
ASTREUS. 
A. Meyricki, Blackb. I see that Herr. van de Pollin Tijdsckr. 
ent. Xxxvi., p. 67, says that this name has been given to the same 
species as that which he called A. Badenz. I have already (Proc. 
L.S., N.S.W., 1894, p. 101) drawn attention to the facts that 
