BY H. J. CARTER. 601 



punctate, iBtervals flat except at sides and apex, and one interval 

 at extreme base, these densely and finely punctate. Sternum 

 closely and coarsely, abdomen finely punctate, glabrous. Dimen- 

 sions : 9 X 4 mm. 



Hab.-Ceipe York(Elgner). 



Three specimens, obtained through the courtesy of Mr. G. 

 A. Waterhouse, include the sexes. It is near S. nigriveniris 

 Macl., but the colours are difi'erently placed, the undersurface is 

 not wholly black, and it is not "broadly bidentated at apex." 



Stigmodkka sancta, n,sp. (Plate lii., fig. 1). 



Oval, robust, moderately convex; head, pronotum, antennae, 

 scutellum, legs and underside, bright metallic green; elytra with 

 base and suture green, the latter with a slight enlargement blue; 

 a postmedian fascia and apex blue (the former enlarged at suture, 

 extending to sides and suture, the apical macula somewhat semi- 

 circular. 



Head excavated, produced in front, finely punctate on vertex, 

 smooth on epistoma, coarsely punctate elsewhere. Fronoium 

 bisinuate at base and apex, twice as broad at base as at apex, 

 anterior angles (seen from above) acutel}^ produced, sides widest 

 behind middle, strongly converging in front, nearly straight and 

 a little explanate behind; posterior angles obtuse, median line 

 smooth, terminating in a small fovea, disc strongly punctate. 

 Scutellum cordiform, convex, with a few small punctures. Elytra 

 of same width as prothorax at base, sides slightly sinuate and 

 widening behind middle, finely serrated on apical border; apex 

 wide, minutely bidentate; disc striate-punctate, inter\ als slightly 

 convex, very finely and sparsely punctate. Prosternum coarsel}^, 

 the rest of the underside finely punctate. Dimensions : 21 '5 x 10 

 mm. 



//rt6. — Beechworth, Victoria(Mr. W. Duboulay). 



Mr. Duboulay has taken several of this species, constant in 

 general colouration, of wliich he has courteously given me the 

 specimen described(5)- In size, form and structure, it is near 

 S. c^ijjricollis Saund., but difiers considerably in its colouration. 

 The suture is narrowly green, but this is enlarged by a darker 



