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FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
Prot^tia. 
P. MANDARiNA, Weber. 
This species, I’ecorded from the Philippine Islands, is stated in 
the Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p, 156, to occur very plentifully in 
Queensland, and to be in the habit of attacking the hives of 
Trigona (the stingless bee) in great numbers. 
Protcetia is regarded by M. Lacordaire as a section of Cetonia. 
It seems singular, if the above statement is correct, that the insect 
has hitherto escaped the notice of Australian Coleopterists. I do 
not think that any of the species attributed to Cetorda in Mr, 
Masters’ Catalogue are identical with P. mandarina. 
BUPRESTID^. 
Bubastes. 
B, INCONST ans, sp.nov. 
Colore variabilis, cuprea vel mnea, vel viridis, latera versus plus 
minus cupreo-purpurea ; cylindrica ; capite sat fortiter minus 
crebre, prothorace (hujus latitudine majori basi posita) crebre 
minus fortiter, elytris crebre sat subtiliter, sat rugulose punctatis ; 
his apice obsolete emarginatis. 
The head is slightly concave longitudinally with an impressed 
longitudinal line in the hinder part ; the eyes are sub- vertical, 
oblong, faintly sinuate on their inner margin, widely remote. 
The prothorax is nearly half again as wide as long, about half 
again as wide at the base as in front, its sides slightly converging 
and nearly straight from the base to near the front whence they 
converge more strongly and arcuately ; the front angles are 
obscure, the hind angles strong, acute, and pointed backwards, 
the base lightly bisinuate ; the true margin runs almost entirely 
on the underside (increasingly so from the hind-angles forward), 
and is cjuite obsolete near the front ; the surface bears an obscure 
