24 Mr. Edward Saunders on 



o. Stigmodera sanguinosAj (PI. I. fig. 27). 



Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc. iv. 210. 



" uiEnea, thorace nigricanti, elytris sanguineis, punctis 

 viridibus fortiter excavatis ; corpore infra aurato, 

 asneis griseisque pilis obsito, pedibus antennisque 

 cupreis.'^ (Hope) . 



Head and thorax green, the lateral margins of the 

 thorax golden. Elytra red-brown, the bottom of the 

 pits with which its surface is covered brilliantly golden. 

 Underside, legs, and antenna, golden copper. 



Head flat, punctured, covered with long white hairs ; 

 vertex with a slight median furrow. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long ; anterior margin emarginate, scarcely half 

 as long as the base ; sides rounded ; base broadly and 

 shallowly lobed ; disk largely punctured, sides rugose. 

 Elytra widest at the shoulder, not quite twice as long as 

 wide ; sides gradually curved to the apex, which is some- 

 what acuminate but blunt ; surface covered with small 

 irregular pits placed close together, the raised lines be- 

 tween them bearing a few scattered punctures. Under- 

 side of the thorax, sides of the abdominal segments and 

 a band across the middle of each, and legs, punctured 

 and villose ; the rest brilliantly burnished. 



Length 10 lines ; breadth 4 lines. 



Hab. Swan River. 



4. Stigmodera Roei, (PI. II. fig. 2) . 



Stigmodera Roei, (Hope, Bupr. p. 2) . 



Stigmodera cancellata, L. & Gr. ii. Stig. 10, pi. ii. fig. 6, 



{nee Donov.). 



" Viridis, clypeo antennis auratis ; thorace varioloso 

 virescenti ; elytris concoloribus, fortitur insculptis, 

 minio marginatis, sex maculis magnis miniatis medio 

 disci positis. Corpus subtus auratum, splendidum, 

 albisque capillis sparsim obsitum." (Hope). 



Abo^e, green. Elytra with the margins, apex, and 

 three spots on each, sanguineous; of these spots one 

 almost touches the base, the second is a little more than 

 one-third of the entire length of the elytra from the 

 base, and the third about one-third of their length from 

 the apex. Underside, legs, and antennae, coppery- 

 golden. 



