of the Family SiiprestiJie. 345 



deeper reddish copper occupies the greater part of the elytra 

 when viewed ia certain lights, 



^ Capt. Kerremans considered these examples to be C. -pro- 

 pinqua, Saund., but tliat is a flatter insect, with coarsely 

 punctured elytra and with a coppery-red abdomen. 



Chrysasjjis aurata, Pabr. 



JBuprestis aurata, Fabr., Mant. lus. i. p. 178. 



The type of this species is in Hunter's collection in the 

 University of Glasgow, and Prof. J. Graham Kerr has kiadly 

 allowed me to examine it. 



It is closely allied to the species known in collections as 

 C. elongata, 01, The general form and sculpture are very 

 similar, but it is a slightly broader insect and is quite 

 differently coloured. It is 33 mm. long and 11 mm. broad 

 just below the shoulders. The thorax is obscure golden 

 green, with scarcely a trace of the coppery colour which is 

 present in elongata. The punctuation is the same. The 

 elytra are golden green, the yellow tint prevailing; the outer 

 portion of the apex is tinted with light coppery. In elongata 

 the copper colour does not extend to the margin. The punc- 

 tuation is throughout distinctly stronger than in elongata, 

 the double lines of punctures are consequently more distinct. 

 In some lights a faint coppery tint is seen between these 

 lines. The prosternura and legs are green. The abdomen 

 golden, with light coppery shade as in elongata. The type is 

 a male and has the fifth abdominal segment widely and not 

 deeply emarginate. I notice some of the specimens of 

 elongata are similar in this respect, others have the emar- 

 gination deeper and more triangular. 



The only specimens of this species I have ever seen are 

 the type and two examples from Sierra Leone in Dr. Heath^s 

 collection. 



In the Buprestidae of Wytsman's ' Genera ' Capt. Kerre- 

 mans gives Chrysodema splendens, Nonfried, as a synonym of 

 " C/iry.^afipis aurata, Fab.^^ I do not know on what authority 

 he places splendens in the genus Chrysaspis. From descrip- 

 tion I should not have taken it to belong to that genus; but 

 anyhow it is certainly not aurata. Tiie insect labelled 

 " aurata ? "" in his collection is auricauda, Saund. 



C. glabra, above described, has the colour of the elytra 

 distributed in the same manner as in aurata ; hat glabra is a 

 more convex, less parallel species, it is more brilliant, and, 

 although of a golden green, it is nevertheless of a deeper 

 colour than aurata, in which the yellow prevails. 

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