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Thorax not quite twice as broad as long ; anterior margin 

 nearly straight and slightly raised^ half as long as the 

 base ; sides diverging rapidly for about two-thirds of 

 their lengthy then parallel to the base^ which is very 

 slightly loioed ; disk largely and deeply punctured. Elytra 

 twice as long as wide, punctate-striate, the interstices 

 also punctured, especially on the sides ; sides sinuate 

 below the shoulders, swelling out considerably below the 

 middle; apex very finely emarginate. Underside punc- 

 tured, with a few white hairs. 



Length 7^ lines ; breadth 3^ lines. 



Hab. Australia. 



25. Stigmodera amabilis, (PI. III. fig. I) . 

 (Hope, Bupr. p. 3) ; L. & G. ii. Stkj. 19, pi. iv. fig. 18. 



" Flava, capite cyaneo ; thorace punctato medio conco- 

 lori, lateribus externis miniatis ; elytris striato-punc- 

 tatis flavis, sutura vittaque in singulo violaceis, 

 lateribus externe sanguineis. Corpus subtus cyane- 

 um, ultimo segmento abdominis miniato." (Hope) . 

 Head and thorax cyaneous, the latter with the margins 

 widely dull-orange. Scutellum blue. Elytra dull orange, 

 the base and suture broadly margined with blue, the 

 colour of the latter swelling out near the apex so as to 

 form a somewhat square spot ; a vitta of the same colour 

 on each elytron reaches from the shoulders, running 

 nearly parallel to the side, and ending about two-thirds 

 of its entire length from the base ; near their terminations 

 they slightly swell out, so as to assume a clubbed shape; 

 posterior margin slightly tinged with red. Underside 

 blue-green, the sides of the thorax and the two last ab- 

 dominal segments orange ; legs and antennae cyaneous, 

 tibiae greenish. 



Head punctured, widely depressed between the eyes. 

 Thorax widest behind the middle, not quite two-thirds 

 as broad again as long ; anterior margin slightly elevated, 

 half as long as the base, its angles produced ; sides diver- 

 ging in nearly straight lines for about two-thirds of their 

 length, then very slightly rounded to their posterior 

 angles, which are acute ; disk largely and deeply punc- 

 tured, slightly raised in front, with a dorsal line visible 

 only at the base, where it is slightly raised ; the region 

 on each side of it depressed. Elytra three-quarters as 

 long again as wide, rather narrower than the thorax at 



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