6ti AUSTR.VLIAX c'OLeoptera: notes and new spkcies. u. 



Table of Australian species of Chalcotaenia DeijroUe. 



1 Elytral costae entire, without impressions lamherti C. and G. 



2 — 4 Elytral costae interrupted by one impression on each 



3 Form elongate, the elytral impressions near apex . . . . elongata Waterb. 



4 Form ovate, the elytral impressions premedial bi-impressa Cart. 



5 — 12 Elytral costae interrupted by two impressions on each 



6 — S Sides of prothorax widely arched in front. 



7 Four impressions wide and irregular in shape; humeral truncature of 

 elytra subangulately widened australasiae Saund. 



occidentalis Waterh. angulipennis Blackb. 



8 Four impressions subcircular (equally wide apart) — humeral truncature not 

 angulate quadri-impressa Waterli. sulci-ventris Blackb. 



9 — 12 Sides of prothorax nearly straight (lightly sinuous) . 



10 Four impressions subcircular , the premedial closer set than the post- 

 medial ciiprascens Waterb. australis Fairm. 



11 Form more obovate than 10, postmedial impressions forming a comma- 

 like connection (on outside) -with latero-apical sulci laeta Waterb. 



12 Form narrower than 10, 11, impression more vague; post-medial impressions 

 connected (on inside) with latero-apical sulci beltanae Blackb. 



13 — 15 Costae wide and little raised, impressions elongate. 



14 Prothorax subquadrate, elytra subparallel violacea Cart. 



1.5 Prothorax trapeziform; elytra ovate castanea Cart. 



Buprestis auridenta L. This beautiful North American beetle has now to 

 be recorded from Australia, probably bred from imported Oregon pine timber. 

 An example was taken by Dr. E. W. Ferguson at Port Macquarie, Aug. 1919, 

 in or near bis boarding bouse, wbieb was so unrelated to any Australian Bupres- 

 tidae known to me that I sent it to the British Museum for determination. This 

 bas now been returned by Mr. K. G. Blair, named as above, together with a note 

 that a specimen from Hawaii was also in the British Museum. I have lately 

 seen another example from the National Museum, Melbourne, taken at Toorak or 

 Frankston, (Vic). A short description of this will interest our coleopterists. 



N.S.W. Example.— c?, 16 x 6 mm. Vic. Example.— 2, 20 x 8 mm. 



Oval, glabrous, golden green above and below, bead, pronotum (apex and 

 sides) suffused with golden copper, suture and sides of elytra brilliant golden 

 copper; pronotum rugose punctate; each elytron with four sharp costae, suture 

 and margins also eostate, interspaces rugose; punctate. 



Neo-bubastes flavo-vittata, n.sp. (Text-fig. 1). 



Elongate, oblong, lightly attenuate beliind; head and pronotum gold suffused 

 ■with green, golden at sides. Elyta'a green with a wide yellow vitta on each, not 

 quite touching the base and terminating some distance from apex, its inner mar- 

 gin near suture, its external margin parallel to the margins of elytra; the suture 

 sometimes violaceous on apical half; underside dai-k golden bronze, rather thickly 

 clothed with short white pubescence. 



Head densely punctate, antennae short, 1st joint large, all after the 3rd finely- 

 serrated; eyes parallel and widely separated. Prothorax sub-globular, apex trun- 

 cate, base lightly bisinuate, sides widely rounded ; very densely punctate and 

 varyingly rugose in parts; in two (of three examples) with a fine medial carina 

 on basal half, anterior angles depressed — quite rounded off from above — posterior 

 obtuse. Scutellum large, transverselj' oval, very nitid and brassy. Elytra lightly 



