Mr. C. O. Watcrhouse on neio Buprestidse. 51 



Rather behind the middle of each elytron there is an elongate 

 purple-black or bluish-black patch (the two patches united 

 posteriorly by a narrow band across the suture), which emits 

 from the lower outer angle a fine line which extends to the 

 apex. There is a round yellow spot in each patch. 



This species resembles N. viridis, M'Leay, but has the 

 apex of the elytra simple &c. 



Hab. North Australia. In Mr. Janson's collection. 



Pstloptera thoracica, n. sp. 



Elongate and parallel-sided, rather depressed, of a uniform 

 brassy-bronze colour. Head coarsely punctured. Thorax 

 one third broader than long, rather fiat on the disk, sloping 

 down at the anterior angles, rather rounded at the sides in 

 front of the middle, gently sinuate before the posterior 

 angles, which are acute and somewhat diverging ; there is a 

 shallow sparingly punctured longitudinal impression in the 

 middle of the disk, the space on each side of it being almost 

 without punctures ; and outside this, anteriorly, there is a 

 small irregular smooth patch ; the sides posteriorly are very 

 distinctly inflated and very strongly punctured ; on the inner 

 side of the inflation the surface is deeply impressed and rugu- 

 lose. The elytra at the base are not broader than the thorax, 

 parallel to rather behind the middle, where they are a very 

 little broader, and then narrowed to the apex, which is narrowly 

 truncated : each elytron has three very slightly raised lines 

 (besides the suture) ; these lines are a little narrower than the 

 rather strongly, not very thickly, punctured intervening spaces ; 

 they are smooth, but with about seven or eight ovate finely 

 punctured impressions ; at the side there is a somewhat broad 

 submarginal, impressed, finely punctured stripe, with very fine 

 whitish pile; the margin itself is incrassate below the shoulders. 

 The prosternal process is bicanaliculate. The prosternum and 

 flanks of the prothorax are very coarsely punctured. 



Hab. S.E. Africa, Mamboio. Brit. Mus. 



Curis corusca, n. sp. 



Parallela, depressa, cuprea ; thorace vittis duabus cyaneis, latcribus 

 angulatis, elytris x^arallelis, ad apicem angiistutis striatu-j)uuc- 

 tatis, plaga obliqua nigrescente juxta suturam notatis, laturibus 

 postice hand retiexo-rQargiiiatis. 



Long. 5| lin. 



Form of C. calopfera, Boisd., but with the thorax decidedly 

 but obtusely angular at the sides. Head very thickly punc- 



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