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punctulato ; prothorace quam longiori circiter tertia parte 
latiori, sat crebre (latera versus magis crasse rugulose) 
punctulato ; elytris crebre subtilius rugulose punctulatis, 
striatis, interstitlis Inequaliter convexis piceis sparsim magis 
fortiter punctulatis, apice emarginatis et bispinosis, Long., 
91.; lat., 24 
A narrower and more elongate species than 5. inconsistans, 
Thoms., with the sides of the prothorax quite straight and 
parallel from the base nearly to the front margin, and the disc 
of the same much less closely punctulate. These same characters 
also furnish distinction from 3B. globicollis, Thoms. Lb. sphenoida, 
L. & G., is said to have the prothorax canaliculate; in the 
other described species the head is concave or foveate between 
the eyes. 
S. Australia ; sent to me by Mr. Masters. 
CURIS. 
C. discoidalis, sp. nov. Sat elongata; sat convexa; nitida; 
supra lete viridis, capite prothoracis disco et in elytris 
macula magna discoidali communi (hac a basi late, a marg- 
inibus lateralibus minus late distanti) purpurascentibus, 
corpore subtus femoribus tibiisque viridibus, antennis tarsis- 
que purpurascentibus ; capite longitudinaliter concavo, for- 
titer punctulato; prothorace transverso, vix canaliculato, 
punctulato (antice in medio subtiliter, basin lateraque versus 
magis crasse), lateribus sat rotundatis; elytris postice rotund- 
ato-truncatis, abdomen fere tegentibus, fortiter punctulatis, 
vix manifeste costatis, juxta latera striatis (interstitiis hic 
subcarinatis), lateribus prope apicem apiceque denticulatis ; 
sternis sat equaliter subfortiter nec crebre, abdomine for- 
titer sat crebre, punctulatis. Long., 5 1.; lat., 2 1. 
Resembles C. Peroni, Fairm., and despecta, Fairm:, in build, 
but the elytra are not distinctly costate, and the middle of the 
prosternum is quite strongly punctulate, uniformly with the 
metasternum, but less coarsely than the side-pieces of the pro- 
sternum. The purple colouring on the prothorax consists of a 
wide median vitta (divided down the middle) occupying the 
middle one-third of the width; on the elytra it consists of a 
large common spot triangularly emarginate in front (so that its 
front comes near the base at the shoulders, and on the suture is 
distant from the scutellum nearly a third of the length of the 
suture), and separated from the lateral margin on either side by 
nearly a third of the width of each elytron. In the type the 
green colour of the elytra is of a very rich pure shade in front, 
but along the margins becomes golden and then coppery in tone 
hindward. The prothorax, compared with that of C. caloptera, 
