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conspecific, as M. Thomson’s species is said to have an impressed 
line on the head, and its prothorax “ confertim punctulatus.” 
S. Australia. 
NEOBUBASTES (gen. nov.). 
Bubasti similis sed minus convexus, pronoti carina marginali fere 
integra. 
This species is another ally of eects but incapable of being 
referred to that genus on account of the lateral carina of its pro- 
notum (which in Bubastes is very short and entirely on the under 
surface) being well defined, visible from above, and continuous 
almost to the front margin. Beyond its somewhat less cylindric 
(though equally robust and scarcely less parallel) form I do not 
find any other character likely to be a generic distinction from 
Bubastes. 
NV. auvreocincta, sp.nov. Robusta; sat parallela; minus convexa; 
sat nitida; setis albidis supra sparsissime subtus magis 
crebre, vestita ; enea, capite prothoraceque viridi cupreoque 
vix manifeste micantibus, elytris lete viridibus, marginibus 
basalibus lateralibusque splendide aureis, his intus igneo- 
cupreo mutantibus; capite convexo crebre fortiter ruguloso- 
punctulato ; prothorace quam longiori fere duplo (postice 
quam antice fere tribus partibus) latiori, supra quali, 
crebre fortiter (fere ut caput sed antice magis subtiliter) 
ruguloso-punctulato, antice sinuato-emarginato  postice 
bisinuato, lateribus sat rotundatis, latitudine majori ante 
medium posita, angulis anticis obtusis haud productis posticis 
fere rectis; scutello concavo; elytris quam prothorax vix 
latioribus, minus fortiter minus crebre (latera versus magis 
crebre magis rugulose) ruguloso-punctulatis, fortiter striatis, 
postice ad latera crenulatis, ad apicem rotundato-truncatis ; 
corpore subtus pedibusque crebre fortiter (femoribus minus 
fortiter) punctulatis. Long., 81. ; lat., 31. 
Var. ? scutalis differt statura multo minore (long., 61.) corpore 
subtus pedibus capite prothorace lete ceruleis, hoc in disco 
obscuriori, scutello planato. 
MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia; in the collection of 
C. French, Esq. The var. ? scutalis is in my own collection, and 
was taken in 8. Australia, but I do not know its habitat more 
exactly. 
BUBASTES. 
BL. vagans, sp. nov. Cylindrica ; minus nitida; obscure viridis, 
elytris obscure cupreo- purpureis, antennis femorum apice 
tibiis tarsisque igneo-cupreis; corpore subtus sparsim cinereo- 
pubescenti ; capite inter oculos haud concavo, vertice linea 
subtili longitudinali impresso, crebre fortiter rugulose 
