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puncturation of tlie head and the disc of tlie prothorax con- 

 siderably sparser, the color more brilliant, etc. 



\V. Australia ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 

 B. laticoUis, Blackb. I believe this to be identical with 

 B. globicollis, Thorns., of which it must become a synonym if I 

 am right in this belief. As I have before remarked, M. Thom- 

 son's Appendix to his Typ. Bupr. (in which this and other Aus- 

 tralian Buprestidce are described) escaped notice in the Zoological 

 Record until some years after its publication, and (owing, I pre- 

 sume, to that omission) was not noticed in Mr. Masters' Cata- 

 logue ; and so, unfortunately, I was not aware of the existence 

 of the Appendix when I described B. laticoUis. 

 B. splendens, sp. nov. Cylindrica ; angusta ; pernitida ; splen- 

 dide viridis, capite postice antennis que violaceis, corpora 

 subtus pilis brevibus squamiformibus albidis vestito ; capite 

 inter oculos sat concavo, fortiter (antice sparsius postice con- 

 fertim) punctulato ; prothorace quam longiori quarta parte 

 latiori, fortiter (disco sparsius lateribus his transversim 

 rugulosis j)arteque antica sat crebre) punctulato, lateribus 

 fere rectis ; elytris sat fortiter sat crebre sat rugulose 

 punctulatis, manifeste striatis, apice emarginatis et bispinosis. 

 Long., 7 1. ; lat., 2 1. 

 An insect of extremely brilliant coloring. Compared with 



B. inconsistans, Thoms., the prothorax is very much more sparsely 

 punctured, and is not rugulose on the disc, while the elytra are 

 less finely punctured, and more distinctly striated. 



Central Australia ; MacDonnell Ranges ; in the collection of 



C. French, Esq. 



MELOBASIS. 



J/, indchra^ sp. nov. Oblongo-ovalis ; l^te viridis, prothoracis 

 vittis latis 2 et elytrorum notis intricatis purpureis ; capite 

 piano fortiter confertim punctulato: prothorace quam 

 longiori plus quam dimidio (postice quam antice circiter 

 quinta parte) latiori, in disco sat sparsim (ad latera confer- 

 tim rugulose) fortiter punctulato, lateribus antice sat for- 

 titer rotundatis jDOstice fere parallelis ; elytris confuse 

 inasqualiter punctulatis, interrupte striatis, interstitiis hie 

 illic leviter convexis, lateribus apicem versus denticulatis. 

 Long., 41 1. ; lat.. If 1. 

 The markings on the elytra are very complicated and difficult 

 to describe clearly ; their pattern is most readily characterised if 

 the purple markings be regarded as the ground color ; then the 

 green is seen to form {a) a wide common sutural vitta from the 

 scutellum more than a quarter of the length of the elytra, {!)) a 

 somewhat similar but slightly longer vitta on each elytron com- 



