THE INSECTS OF THE VICINITY OF KING’S SOUND, 
N. W. AUSTRALIA. 
Part III.— T HE STERNOXES. 
By William Macleay, F.L.S., itc. 
Family BUPRESTID^. 
183. Chrysodema Saundersi, n.sp. 
Elongate, green isli-black with metallic reflections, very niticl, 
sub-depressed. Head coai’sely punctate in front, and broadly 
excavated and aureo-pubescent in the middle. Thorax wider a 
little than the length, all the angles acute, the lateral border a 
little sinuate, the disk smooth in the middle, and on the sides 
l>roadly and very roughly punctate and depressed, and with the 
exception of some smooth raised spaces densely covered with a 
line golden pubescence. Elytra a little wider than the thorax and 
four times the length, punctate, the punctures becoming smaller to 
the apex, the sides bi-sinuate behind the shoulders, and serrated at 
tlie apex, which is acuminate ; the colour is more of a dark purple 
than the rest of the body, and on each elytron are a round spot at 
the base near the shoulders, another smaller and more oval near 
the suture and a little behind the first spot, and a third large and 
oblong on the lateral margin, about the same line or slightly behind 
the .second, and two vittio on the posterior half — one near the 
suture, pointed behind and not reaching the apex, the others close 
to the lateral margin commencing near the middle and terminating 
some di.stance from the apex, all covered with a dense short golden 
pubescence. Beneath golden green, densely clothed with a very 
short golden pubescence. 
Long. 13.V lines. 
This 8i)ecics seems to resemble C. pintor more than any other. 
