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ficies seneo-viridis est), antice recta, postice rotundata, marginera 

 posticam non attingente lateribus parallelis ; elytrls singulis plagis 

 5, depressis pilis adpressis flavescenti-cinereis indutis ; 3 parvis ba- 

 salibus, una elongata laterali, pilis longioribus duabus subovalibus 

 juxta suturam, una submediana ad latus alteraque maxima, pos- 

 tice attenuata. 



Hab. ad ripas fluminis Zaire. Dom. Curror collegit. Long. unc. 1 . 

 lin. 7. 



By Laporte aud Gory this woiikl be regarded as a distinct spe- 

 cies, ahhough eventually I believe it will be found to be a local 

 variety of Sternocera liturata. I have much pleasm-e in dedicating 

 this handsome Bupj-estis to Mr. Cvu-ror^ Surgeon of the Royal 

 Navy, while to JMr. Bui-chell's I have assigned the name of Ster- 

 nocera liturata (var. Burchellii) . 



Another Sternocera, of a bright purplish opalescent colour, and 

 nearly allied to S. castanea, may be characterized as follows : — 



Sternocera feldspathica. St. castanea, purpureo etviridi resplendens, 

 thorace lateribus plaga antica subtriangulari, dorso rude punctate, 

 elytris baud plagiatis lineatis, basi subareolatis, corpore subtus 

 purpureo-nigro, subpiloso, segmentis 3 posticis lateribus, plaga 

 pilorum. 

 Hab. ad eras Zaire vulgo Congo. Dom. Curror lexit. Long. unc. 1 . 



lin. 7. 



Mr. Cm-ror has also brought from the Congo a specimen of 

 Chrysochroa lepida. Lap. et Gory, Hist. Nat. et Iconogr. des Ins, 

 Coleopt. pi. 3. f. 9. 

 Buprestis lepida. Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, i. p. 3S3. pi. 12. 

 Buprestis dives, Dej., Cat. p. 85 (ed. 1837). 



And of the 

 Buprestis viridi-azurea. B. reneo-rufescenti-viridis, lateribus ely- 



trorum sulculo depresso, thorace seneo, plagis variis subelevatis 



viridibus, corpore subtus seneo. Long. lin. 11, 



I know not who applied the MS. name to this; it is closely allied 

 to Buprestis limbalis, Illiger. Lap. et Gory, op. cit. p. 78. pi. 20. 

 fig. 104. Our specimen came from Mr. Chilcben^s collection : the 

 label is in Bilberg^s handwriting. 



Mr. Curror has brought amongst the Heteromera a specimen 

 of what I consider to be a local variety of the 



Epiphysa flavicollis, Dej., Cat. p. 197 {Leachii o\im) ; Sober, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. de France. 

 Pimelia flavicollis, F«5r., Ent. Syst. ; Syst. Eleuth. i. 128. 

 Pimelia inflata, Oliv. 

 Hab. ad oras fluminis Zaire. 



An Adesmia with verrucose elytra, in form somewhat resembling. 

 Pimelia cothurnata of Klug (Ehrenberg's Symholce Phys.) is in Mr, 



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