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DESCRIPTIONS 



OF THE 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Calodema Kirbii, Hope. 



Long, lin. 19. lat. lin. 7j. 



Flava, thorace viridi, maculis duabus ovalibus 

 puniceis, fossulisque binis in medio disci positis, 

 elytris flavis, marginibus internis viridibus ; corpore 

 infra viridi, splendido annulis abdominis utrinque 

 flavomaculatis. 



Habitat in Australia. In Mus. Dom. Hope. 



This magnificent insect, one of the most beautiful 

 of all the Buprestidae, I named in honour of the 

 Rev. William Kirby, in a Prodromus which I pub- 

 lished some few years back. Monsieur Gory rejects 

 the generic name of Stigmodera, and substitutes 

 in its place Calodema, to include various species 

 allied to the above insect; but on what authority 

 he also changes the specific name of Kirbii to 

 Regalis I know not, without it is from a love of 

 notoriety. The generic details of the genus Calo- 

 dema will be found in the Iconographie des Insectes 

 Coleopteres, par Le Comte de Castelneau et H. Gory. 



