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exactly as in Mechidius. I should be inclined to propose a new 
generic name for this species if it were not that Mr. Waterhouse 
has already characterised a genus ( Hpholcis) very near Mcechidius, 
but without referring to the structure of the legs or the length 
of the elytra in its species, so that I cannot be quite sure this 
insect might not be referred to it. ‘It is better therefore, for the 
present, to regard it as an extreme form of Wechidius. 
N.S.W.; taken by Mr. Froggatt near Bungendore in a nest of 
Termitide. 
PSEUDORYCTES. 
P. tectus, sp. nov. Rufo-ferrugineus, sat nitidus ; subtus dense 
fulvo-pubescens ; capite minus parvo; scutello punctulato 
minus transverso, tibiis extus bicarinatis. 
Maris prothorace quam elytra subangustiori, tota superficie 
excavato, parte excavata dense hirsuta, margine antico cornu 
magno (hoe supra caput antrorsum producto et ad apicem 
sursum reflexo, apice profunde bilobo, lobis extrorsum oblique 
directis) armato, utrinque in cornu elongato valido (hoc ad 
apicem acutum introrsum curvato) producto; antennarum 
flabello valde elongato quam stipes vix breviori ; tarsis elon- 
gatis. Long., 101.; lat., 531. 
Femina latet. 
I think this species may be referred to Psewdoryctes, although 
its tarsi are evidently longer than those of P. mullerianus, White, 
and the upper carina of its tibie is much more developed than in 
that species. 
Australia; a single specimen in the S.A. Museum; its exact 
habitat not known. 
BUPRESTID i. 
ASTRAUS. 
A. navarchis, Thoms. M. J. R. H. Neervoort van de Poll, in 
his Monograph of Astreus, gives merely ‘“ Australia” as the 
habitat of this species. I have seen an example in the 
collection of C. French, Esq., which that gentleman informs 
me was taken in Western Australia. M. Thomson gave 
Tasmania as the habitat, but I take it that this was a 
mistake. 
A. Oberthiiri, V.de Poll. The exact habitat of this species 
also seems to have been unknown to M. van de Poll. Mr. 
French gives Queensland as the locality, where an example 
in his collection was taken. 
A. simplex, sp. nov. Sat elongatus; nitidus; pube albida nisi in 
elytris vestitus ; capite prothoraceque nigris, hoc ad latera 
illo antice viridi-cyaneis, elytris cyaneis maculis quaternis 
