as having the anterior margin rufous in the middle, it being
wholly of a deep shining black, and as Olivier (l.c.) remarks, the neck
or narrowed collar (qui joint la tete au corcelet) is rufous yellow as is
the squareish transverse head with a black spot on the crown. The
scutellum and elytra are minutely punctured or chagrined, and hairy
(except a small smooth oblong space on the shoulder of the latter) and
are black with a violet tinge; in one specimen the elytra have scarcely
any of the blue tinge, and the spot on the shoulder is of a ferruginous
hue; the wings are violaceous. Dr. Leach had regarded this as a distinct
subgenus, but as the name he had given it is pre-occupied in Botany, and
has not been published with or without characters, as far as I am aware,
I have not given it.

CRYPTODUS, Macleay.

C. variolosus, Burmeister (Westwood Monograph ined.)

Smaller than Mr. Macleay's species and of a pitchy brown, it is less
depressed; the head is squarer and not so broad, the two tubercles are
more prominent, the mentum is deeply emarginate: antennae nine-jointed;
basal joint dilated, prothorax not so transverse, much more closely
punctured: the elytra are scarcely dilated behind, shorter, and are
covered with exceeding minute punctures in addition to the larger ones.

Inhabits King George's Sound, Captain George Grey. (British Museum.)

Mr. Westwood informed me that Professor Burmeister had sent him a
description of this species under the above-mentioned name; the
characters are the principal of those which will appear in Mr. Westwood's
elaborate memoir. I had written a description of this species and
assigned a name to it, which however I withdraw. There are more than two
species of this curious genus, first published in the Horae
Entomologicae.

BRACHYSTERNUS, Guerin. (s.g. Epichrysus.)

B. ? (E.) Lamprimoides, new species. Illustration 18 Insects 1.

Viridi aureus, thorace corporeque subtus tomentosis.

Yellowish metallic green, legs darker. The head is somewhat square, the
transverse suture being rather indistinct; the margin of the clypeus is
distinctly reflexed. Antennae dark brown, ten-jointed; 1st joint longest,
thickened at the end, with ferruginous hairs behind; 2nd rounded, thin;
3rd, 4th, and 5th, with the separating lines very indistinct, those
before the 3 lamellated joints short, transverse. Maxillary palpi with
the terminal joint dilated, rather blunt at the tip, depressed above, and
hollo