BY H. J. CARTER. 07 



enlarged at shoulders and compressed at middle; apices sepai-ately rounded, 

 posterior margins sen-ated, striate-punctate, the seriate punctures large and close; 

 intervals convex and closely punctate. Underside densely punctate, the prosternum 

 coarsely so, mai-gins of abdominal segments smooth and nitid. Apical segment 

 truncate between two sub-obsolete teeth in c?, rounded in ?. Dimensions: <?, 

 11-12 X 4 mm., ?, 15 x 5 mm. 



Rab. — Western Australia: Kellerberrin (Mr. H. Giles), Cunderdin (Mr. R. 

 Ulidge). 



Three examples (2 c?, 1 S) ai-e before me. The species is peculiar amongst 

 Buprestidae in the contrasted metallic areas and the non-metallic vittae of the 

 elytra. If the yellow be taken as the ground colour, then the base and suture 

 are narrowly, and the margins and apex widely, green. The apices and suture 

 are, in two examples, violaceous. Though presenting certain marked differences 

 in the form of the prothorax and in the elytral sculpture from N. aureooincta 

 Blaekb. (Text-fig. 2) — of which I have seen the type — it is, I consider, con- 

 gfenerie vfith that species. Types in Coll. Carter. 



N.B. The genus is clearly distinct from Buhastes by its shorter prothoi-ax, 

 larger seuteUum and flatter elytra inter alia, though merged by Kerremajis with 

 Buhastes (Gen. Ins.). 



I have lately received some! valued paper's (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1920) on 

 Buprestidae by Dr. Jan Obenberger of Prague. Amongst his new species there 

 is one evident synonym as follows: — 

 Buhastes suturalis Carter = B. strati di Obenb. 

 B. suturalis was published in 1915. 



Pseudanilara roberti Thery. — I have identified this genus and species in two 

 examples from Sydney in my collection (described as from Victoria). The genus 

 is separated from Anilara by its wide head, bisinuate base of pronotum, the 

 position of the antennary cavities and the absence of impression or carenum on 

 the last segment of abdomen. 



Stigmodera. 



S.ynonymj'. Stigmodera rollei Kerr. ^ (S*. hackeri Carter. [S. caudata Cart. (nom. 



praeoec.) ]. 



Stigmodera horni Kerr. = S. unimaculata Carter. 



Kerremans' descriptions were published Jan. 1908 (Deutsche Ent. Zeit.) 

 while my names appeared in August of the same year (These Proc). . I have 

 only recently obtained Kerremans' descriptions. He notes, as I did, the identical 

 colour markings of these two species, but, like myself, considei-s the marked 

 differences, ,especially of apical structure, specific distinctions, though noting that 

 his two examples of rollei were 2S, and those of horni were c?c?. 



Of six examples of rollei and three of horni now before me the same sexual 

 association holds. This is quite strong, though not conclusive evidence that rollei 

 is the ? and horni the S of the same species. S. horni is also very close to S. 

 enibescens Blaekb. from the same region — a species of which I have only seen 

 the c? (Three in my collection). 



Stigmodera johannae Thery. — Tliis is, evidently, one of the foi-ms of 8. 

 straminea Macl. The colour of the thorax is more coiTectly described by Thery 

 as violet purple, than by Macleay as "golden olive," and the excellent description 

 exactly applies to Macleay's species. In this species the preapical "tache" is 

 frequently absent. 



