_D. olliffiana_ is a very rare species about the same size, with the upper surface reddish brown and the wing covers irregularly marked with black blotches. All the specimens known, about half a dozen in number, come from the same locality, Colo Vale, N.S.W., and nothing is known about their habits. _Glycyphana brunnipes_ is common on the flowering scrub about Sydney, and has a wide range round the coast of Australia; it measures about ⅓ of an inch, and varies from dull brown to green in colour, irregularly spotted and marked. Family 29. Jewel Beetles. BUPRESTIDAE. This is one of our largest and most typical groups of the Coleoptera, containing a great number of large beetles rich with metallic tints, chiefly found upon flowering shrubs, and most plentiful on the coastal districts of Victoria, New South Wales, and West Australia. They are elongate in form, with the head short, fitting closely into the broader thorax, and furnished with large eyes and slender, slightly serrate antennae. The abdomen is long with closely fitting wing covers, and well-developed wings which enable them to fly well, though they usually drop to the ground when disturbed. The larva is a slender flattened white grub with small black jaws and head; the thoracic segments are very broad behind and rounded to the much narrower abdominal segments. They are wood borers, feeding in the sapwood under the bark, and finally burrowing into the solid timber where they pupate; some of the smaller ones feed in dead wood; and a few form regular galls upon the roots or branchlets of shrubs. [Illustration: Plate XVIII.--COLEOPTERA. Family BUPRESTIDAE. 1. _Stigmodera fortnumi_ (Hope). 2. _Stigmodera macularia_ (Donov.). 3. _Stigmodera pascoci_ (Saunders). 4. _Stigmodera thoracica_ (Saunders). 5. _Cyria imperialis_ (Donov.). 6. _Stigmodera variabilis_ (Donov.). 7. _Calodema regalis_ (Lap. et Gory). 8. _Chalcophora vittata_ (Waterhouse). 9. _Julodimorpha bakewelli_ (White). (Original photo. Burton.)] [Illustration: _Plate XVIII.--COLEOPTERA._]