AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTEEA: NOTES AND NEW SPECIES. No. ii. 



By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Fourteen Text-figures.) 



[Read 26th April, 1922.] 



BUFRESTIDAE. 



Buprestida,?. .Having lately examined long series from the South Australian 

 Museum of many species of the Chaleophoi-ini group of Buprestidae, I made 

 a careful study of the Chalcotaenia — especially of those having 4-spotted elytra — 

 in order to cleai- my own mind on the subject. Cotypes of tho late Canon Black- 

 burn's species were amongst these, including one of C. beltanae — the label in 

 Blackburn's handwriting. I would note: (1) This species is a Chalcotaenia — as 

 so placed by Kerremans in the Gen. Insectorum — not a Chalcophorella as 

 originally described. (2) Portions of the description do not agi'ee with the 

 specimen — (o) "pai-tibus elevatis obscure cuprascentibus," (&) "antennis sat 

 breribus baud prothoracis ba.sin attingentibus." With regard to [a] the elevated 

 parts are dark gi-een, the depressed areas golden; the word non should thus be 

 prefixed to elevatis to describe the specimen. 



As to (b) there only remain 9 joints of one antenna; but the 9th joint 

 exactly reaches the base of prothorax, so that the antennae of the example in 

 question are decidedly longer than the prothorax. Further, except for parts of 

 joints 1-3 which are metallic, the antenna is testaceous, although in his final note 

 the author compai-ed it with ''C. martini Saund., and C. cerata Kerr., both of 

 which, however, differ from it, inter alia multa, by their testaceous antennae." The 

 dimensions of the example are 19 x 7 mm., those of the type 8f x 3 lines. I can 

 only deduce, therefore, that either the specimen is wrongly named or that the 

 above statements are inacciu-ate. 



The other species by this author, of which I have examined cotypes are, I 

 consider, synonyms as follows: — 

 C. australasiae Saund. = C. angulipennis Blackb. 

 C. quadri-impressa Wat«rh. = C. sulciventris Blackb. 



I append a tabulation of the Australian species of the genus. The two extra- 

 Australian species are C. gratiosissima Kerr, from Papua and C. longicollis Kerr, 

 from "Isles du Sud-East." 



