of the Family Bupre3tida3. 2(51 



Acmeeodera aurifera, L. & G. 



This is a female. Capt. Kerreraans has described the male 

 as A. scintillans. 



Acmceodera Saundersii, sp. n. 



Bright golden green, shining, the head and the suture of 

 the elytra having a blue tint in certain lights. Underside 

 dark steel-blue, with a little silky pubescence. 



Long. 16 mm. 



Hab. Limpopo. 



This species closely resembles A. grnndls, ? , but differs 

 in ha^dng the thorax less angular at the sides, rather more 

 narrowed in front. The central channel is rather broader in 

 the middle — i.e., myrandis it is nearly straight; in this species 

 it is more elliptical, closely and rather strongly punctured. 

 The sides are closely and strongly punctured, and, although 

 rugose about the middle, the punc^tures do not make transverse 

 rugai as in grandis. In graadis there is a small, rather 

 sharply defined fovea on each side of the base. In Sauadersli 

 there is a larger^ deep, punctured impression, which is con- 

 tinued forward and obliquely outwards. The elytra are 

 strongly punctate-striate. The suture and the first and 

 second interstices are subcostate, smooth, the first interstice 

 with an irregular line of fine punctures beyond the middle, 

 the second punctured only at the apex. In yrandis the 

 apical part of these interstices has a line of very distinct 

 punctures. The rest of the interstices are much broken up 

 by the coarse punctures of the striae, but in Saundersii the 

 punctures are not so strongly transverse as in yrandis and 

 the fourth costa is raised and almost smooth, whereas in 

 yrandis it is punctured as the others. 



Acmceodera sumptuosa, sp. n. 



I propose this name for specimens received in Capt. Kerre- 

 mans' collection — the males as A. aurolimbata, Fahr.'^, the 

 females as (/randis, Guer. 



It is very like A. yrandis, but is rather broader and rather 

 more suddenly or obliquely narrowed towards the apex of 

 the elytra. 



* Care must be taken not to confound aurolimhnta, FShr. (a small 

 insect 1\ mm. long), with am-eoUnibata, Bohem. (15 mm. long). For 

 tills latter insect Capt. Kerremans proposed the name Bohemani (Me'm. 

 Soc. Ent. Beige, i. p. 167), but confounds the two in the Buprestidne of 

 Wytsman's * Genera,' p. 30. 



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