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semicircular curve, the second straight, and reaching the 

 margins, the third (a shorter one) not touching the 

 margins ; apex bluish-black. Underside yellow ; a spot on 

 each side of the thorax, the posterior margin of each ab- 

 dominal segment, and the legs, green. 



Head deeply punctured, with an impressed line on the 

 vertex. Thorax widest behind the middle, not quite twice 

 as broad at the base as long ; anterior margin slightly 

 rounded, half as long as the base ; sides rounded ; base 

 nearly straight ; disk punctured, with a smooth dorsal line, 

 which is met at the base by a small fovea. Elytra striate, 

 twice as long as wide, sides almost straight, apex rounded. 

 Underside shining, very finely punctured, the punctures 

 coarser on the legs, which have also a few short white 

 hairs. 



Length 12 lines ; breadth 4 lines. 



Hab. Swan River. 



21. Stigmodera semicincta, (PI. II. fig. 19). 



(Hope, Bupr. p. 3) 3 L. & G. ii. Stig. 19, pi. iv. fig. 17. 



" Nigra, capite cyaneo, thorace punctate, in medio viridi, 

 marginibus violaceis ; elytris nigris striato-punc- 

 tatis, lateribus externis flavis. Corpus infra cya- 

 neum." (Hope) . 



Head and thorax cyaneous. Scutellum bright green. 

 Elytra dark brown, the margins flavous. Underside and 

 legs cyaneous. Antennee bronzy. 



Head punctured, deeply impressed between the eyes. 

 Thorax widest behind the middle, two-thirds as broad 

 again as long ; anterior margin half as long as the base, 

 its centre and angles slightly produced ; sides diverging 

 till just past the middle, then rounded and straight to 

 the posterior angles ; base slightly lobed ; disk largely 

 and deeply punctured, with a scarcely-visible smooth 

 dorsal line, the punctures in many cases confluent on the 

 sides, each of which has a slight impression near the 

 posterior angle and almost touching the lateral margin. 

 Elytra regularly striate, twice as long as broad, shoulders 

 slightly prominent, sides scarcely sinuate below them; 

 the apex of each with an external spine. Underside and 

 legs punctured, covered with short whitish hairs. 



Length 9^ lines; breadth 4 linos. 



Hab. Australia. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1868. PART I. (aPRTL) . D 



