H. I. CARTER, BUPRESTID^. 3 



(J. elongate, sub-depressed; head, thorax, underside and 

 Jegs metallic green, antennse blue: margins of prothorax 

 (above and below) rather widely sanguineous; elytra yellow 

 merging into blood-red on apical third, the sutare in this 

 region and a square apical patch blue-green. 



Head closely punctured, channelled between eyes, with 

 fine white pubescence. Prothorax produced in middle at 

 apex, anterior angles acute, sides rather widely protruding 

 in middle, th^nce sinuately narrowed in front, and obliquely, 

 less narrowed behind, base bisiunate; disc finely and closely 

 punctate, medial line smooth. Elytra striate-punctate, inter- 

 vals feebly raised, with sparse shallow punctures; each apex 

 bidentate, the sutural tooth the longer. Underside rather 

 closely punctured, the sternal punctures — especially at sides 

 — more coarse than there on the abdomen ; undersurface 

 clad with sparse fine hairs. 



Dim.: 30 X 12 mm. 



Hab.: Yarrabah, Queensland (Mus. Stockholm). 5 

 wanting. 



A species near S. affinis Saund., S. sanguinea Saund. 

 and S. viridicincta Waterh. The last two, however, have 

 a more or less yellow abdomen, besides other colour diffe- 

 rence, and the last is a decidedly more convex insect. From 



Fig. 1. Apex of left elytron of 

 Stig. affinis. 



Fig. 2. Apex of left elytron of 

 Stig. viridicauda. 



