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crebre et regulariter punctatis, thorace unicolore ; elytris 

 nigro-purpureis, sutura marginibusque Icetioribus, dorso longi- 

 tudinaliter sulcato-striato ; singulis flavo sex-plagatis, plagis 

 duabus later alibus, prima basali elongata, secunda ad medium ; 

 plagis quatuor dorsalibus longitudinaliter directis, tertia ob- 

 liqua, quarta subtriangulari ; elytris ad apicemintegris, interne 

 oblique subtruncatis ; pedibus corporeque subtus obscure pur - 

 pureis. 



Hob. In Australia (" Moreton Bay") {Mr, Biggies). 

 Stigmodera gxjlielmi. (PI. LIX. fig. 2.) 



S, elongata, longo-elliptica, thoracis lateribus antice convexis, 



postice foveis tribus profunde impressis. 

 Hab. Australia (Moreton Bay). 



Dedicated to my kind friend William Jeakes, Esq., the possessor 

 of a large and ever-increasing collection of insects of the families 

 Buprestidce, Longicornia, Carabidce, &c. 



Temognatha. 



Among the Australian Buprestidce we have a fine species from the 

 Swan River, which I have named imperatrix, from its rich, royal, 

 gold and green enamelled surface. 



Temognatha imperatrix, n. s. (PI. LIX. fig. 5.) 



T.Jlava; elytris ad apicem mucronatis, sutura etiam apiculata, 

 dorso aureo-flavo, suturce marginibus lateralibus (spatio pone 

 basirn excepto) purpureo-nigris ; ad medium dorsi maculis 3-4 

 parvis tr a nsver sis purpureo-nigris ; pedibus viridibus ; corpore 

 subtus Jlavo, viridi decorato. 



Long. unc. 1, lin. 6. 



Hab. Australia (Swan River). 



BlJPRESTIS. 



Buprestis (Chrysodema) LOUISA. (PI. LIX. fig. 1.) 



B. Icete viridis ; antennis } tarsorum articulis quatuor basalibus 

 et apice extremo pedum rufulo-Jlavis ; tarsorum articulo ultimo 

 Icete cupreo-viridi ; elytris sulcato-lineatis, horum laterum dimi- 

 dio majore apicali denticulato, dentibus purpureis, ad latera 

 vitta elongata depressa ; superjicie metallica, cupreo-viridi, pilis 

 curtis rufulis obsita. 



Hab. In " Figi Islands, Ovalau " (Mr. John Macgillivray). 



Louisae, conjugis carissimse Caroli Hyde, Eq., (in exercit. Brit, 

 capitani,) Lepidopterorum praesertim studiosissimae, insectum hoc 

 pedibus antennisque pallidis valde distinctum, nomen fert. 



There is no figure in Gory and Laporte, nor in any of the recent 

 French or other voyages, which resembles this. The elegant species has 

 a depressed flattened thorax, with an impressed line down the centre ; 

 and the surface is rather thickly clothed with punctures, some of 

 which have a tendency to accumulate into four depressed spots ; the 



