DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



striato-punctate ; the base and tip rather smooth; shoulders 

 purple. Legs chestnut, with black bristles ; the four posterior 

 tarsi brown. Antennas short, chestnut ; three apical joints di- 

 lated. Body beneath of a greenish shining cyaneous. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Hob. Van Diemen's Land. 



PHLOIOCOPUS GUERINH, n. s. 



Head and thorax of a deep brown, the latter ferruginous in front. 

 Elytra with the basal half of a pale reddish brown, rather 

 roughly punctato-striate ; a narrow, irregular, brown band 

 across the middle, followed by a wider, smooth, yellow band with 

 irregular edges ; a still wider, smooth, brown band succeeds this ; 

 a narrow yellow sub-apical band, the extreme tip is brown. 

 Antennae rufous. Legs ferruginous brown ; base of femora and 

 soles of tarsi inclined to yellow. 



Length 6 lines. 

 Hab. Africa. 



HOPLOCLERUS BIACULEATUS WestW. 



Somewhat depressed. Elytra wider behind. Head and protho- 

 rax smooth. Elytra irregularly covered with punctures ; of a 

 lively testaceous ; shining, cyaneous ; shoulders and tips rufous, 

 the latter at the suture ending in two sharp spines. Antennae 

 short ; the three apical joints wider. Body beneath rufous ; the 

 mesosternum and metasternum cyaneous. 



Length 3 lines. 

 Hab. S. Australia. 



HYDNOCERA PECTORAUS Westw. 



Allied to H. flavo-lineata, but wider behind and less parallel 

 above, altogether of a pale testaceous ; anterior margin of pro- 

 thorax whitish. Antennae very short, of a pale testaceous ; three 

 last joints short, and wider than the rest. Head, between the 

 eyes, with two impressions. Elytra deeply punctato-striate. 

 Legs yellowish. Thorax black beneath. Abdomen chestnut. 



Length 2^ lines. 

 Hab. Australia. 



