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NOTES ON THE GENUS STIGMODERA, WITH DE- 

 SCRIPTIONS OF ELEVEN NEW SPECIES, AND 

 OF OTHER BU BREST ID. E. 



By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Plate Hi.) 



The genus Stiymodera is in great need of revision, and its 

 extensive synonymy comprehensively treated. This can only be 

 safely done by an entomologist with the European types at his 

 disposal. Of the following pairs of species, the first is certainly 

 synonymous, and the two others extremely probable. 



aS'. sternalis Blackb. = /S'. distincta Saund. A specimen in the 

 Melbourne Museum labelled sternalis in Blackburn's writing, is 

 identical with specimens of distincta in the Macleay Museum, 

 (probable cotypes of Saunders' species) and exactly corresponds 

 with the description and figure given by Saunders. 



S. ochreiventris Haund. = S. /ulvive7itr is iVlacl. There is only a 

 slight difference of dimensions apparent in the two descriptions. 

 A specimen examined from North-west Victoria (Sea Lake) has 

 an elongate blue spot in place of the basal sutural mai'king in 

 Saunders' figure. I have specimens of the normal colouring from 

 North Queensland. 



S. longida Blackb. = S. cyanipes Saund. The specimens labelled 

 cyanipes Saund., in the Macleay Museum (probable cotypes, since 

 Mr. Masters sent most of Saunders' species to him originally) 

 exactly correspond to Blackburn's description of longula. 



The following species do not appear to be very near any de- 

 scribed species, except S. varicollis, the distinction of which fi'om 

 *S'. Yarrelli L. & G., is discussed below. 



Stigmodera varicollis, n..sp. 



Oblong-oval, slightly convex, and widened behind the middle; 

 head green (sometimes variegated with red); pronotum red, with 

 disc irregularly blotched with green: elytra red, with three blue 



