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beautiful blue ; the striz of the elytra are very strongly 
punctated, excepttowardsthe extremity; the elytra are oblong. 
Melbourne. 
Feroma Saphyrypenmis: length 8’; same form and 
general appearance as the precedent, but the elytra are en- 
tirely of a beautiful purple; they are strongly striated in all 
their length, and the striz are strongly punctated, except 
behind ; the form of the elytra is oval, with two punctiform 
impressions on each near the third stria. 
Under sea-weeds on the seashore, Adelaide and Melbourne. 
-Feroma Esmeraldipennis: length 63’; head and thorax 
of a dark bronzed colour, the first oval; thorax almost round, 
a little longer than in the precedent species; the 
lateral margin becoming very broad behind, as in those ; the 
impressions moderate ; elytra covered with strong striz, ex- 
tending to all the length of the insect, and being punctated 
in their first two thirds; they have each two punctiform im- 
pressions on the third stria, and their colour is of a fine 
brilliant metallic green ; lower side of the body and legs of 
a dark brown; antenne and palpi of a lighter colour. 
Adelaide, very rare. 
Feronia Olhviert: length’; very much like Germari, 
but the elytra much more oval and rounded; the striz ex- 
tending in full depth to the basies, and to the extremity. 
Adelaide and Melbourne. 7 
Feroma Bonvouloirer: length 72’ ; very nearly allied to 
Germari, but smaller; elytra elongated, and much narrower 
in front; their broader part being towards the two posterior 
thirds of the length ; the humeral angles more prominent ; 
the strize not generally so deep. 
Brisbane, Queensland. 
Feroma Rockhamptoniensis: length 8’; general form 
rather broad; of an obscure black; thorax transverse, 
rounded, with the impressions feeble, except the two poste- 
rior ones; elytra oval, rather broad and depressed with 
strie, which appear punctated under a magnifying power. 
and which extend on the entire length of the elytra, but 
grow weaker towards the sides ; a punctiform impression on 
the posterior part of the interval between the second and 
third strie, and a series of the same on the margin; lower 
side of the body and legs more brilliant ; tarsi and extremity 
of the palpi brown ; antenne black, but covered after their 
first four articles with a brown pubescence. 
Rockhampton, Queensland. ; 
