32 DESCRIPTION OF NEW BUPRESTIDiE. 



acutely bideutated, they are of yellow colour verging on sanguine- 

 ous near the apex, with a very narrow basal margin and the 

 apical portion of the su.ture blue. 



19. — StIGMODEKA M.\('U1,IVENTRIS. 



Nigra capite puuctato flavo-hirto, thorace punctato linea 

 dorsali It^vi basi utrinque impresso, elytris punctatis striatis 

 ad humerum subrugosis postice rotundatis flavis sutura 

 macula suturali pone scufcellam fascia postraediah apiceque 

 nigro-cyaucis, corpore subtus nigro-ieneo ventre flavo- 

 maculato. 

 Long. 11 liu., lat. 4 lin. 

 Hab. Rockhampton. 

 The head and thorax are of a deep bluish black and punctured, 

 the former with the forehead almost flat and covered with yellow- 

 ish pubescence, the base of the thorax is slightly excised near the 

 posterior angles. The elytra are striated, punctured, and of a 

 yellow colour, verging upon sanguineous towards the apex, with a 

 spot on the suture behind the scutellum, a broadish fascia imme- 

 diately behind the middle, and an apical patch, of a dark blue ; 

 there is no vestige of dentation at the apex. The under surface 

 is of a dark brassy green, with spots of yellow on the sides of all 

 the abdominal segments, and on the middle of the two terminal 

 ones. 



20. — StIGMODEIU IMPRESSICOLLIS. 



Nigra capite profunda canaliculato, thorace punctato linea dor- 

 sali antice posticeque profunda impresso foveola utrinque 

 magna, elytris punctatis costatis testaceis sutura fere ad 

 apicem nigra. 

 Long. 5 lin., lat. 2 lin. 

 Hab. Manning River. 

 The head and thorax are of a brassy black and punctured, the 

 former deeply impressed in the centre, the latter with very large 

 deep impressions at the apical and basal portions of the central 

 dorsal line and with two others larger and rounder, one on each 

 side near the basal angles. The elytra are sulcated, the intersti- 

 ces, five in number, are pi'ominent ; the sulci are punctured. The 

 colour is of a dull red with the suture black to within a very 

 short distance of the apex. 



