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28. StIGMODEKA AUSTRALASI.E, (PI. III. fig. 4). 



Stigmodera simulata, (Hope, Bupr. p. 3) ; nee L. & G. 



Stiymodera Australasice, L. & G. ii. Stig. 32, pi. vii. 



fig. 35. 



"Atra, tliorace bronzeo, elytris nigro-violaceis flavo-tri- 

 fasciatis, latex-ibvis antice posticeque concoloribus. 

 Corpus subtus aeneum.^' (Hope) . 



Head and thorax bronzy black ; antennae brassy green. 

 Elytra blue-black, with a spot on each touching the base, 

 but reaching neither the suture nor the margin, a band 

 situated about the middle and declining from the suture 

 (which it does not quite touch) to the margin, and another 

 near the apex, yellow ; a small marginal spot of the same 

 colour between the base and the median band. Under- 

 side dark violet, with greenish reflections ; legs cyaneous. 



Head deeply punctured, with a strongly impressed line 

 between the eyes. Thorax half as broad again as long; 

 anterior margin nearly straight, a little more than half as 

 long as the base, angles produced ; sides rounded, pos- 

 terior angles acute ; base slightly sinuate ; disk deeply 

 and closely punctured. Elytra punctate-striate, not quite 

 twice as long as wide ; sides sinuate below the shoulders ; 

 apex of each armed with a short central spine ; posterior 

 margin finely denticulate. Underside and legs punc- 

 tured, covered with scattered white hairs. 



Length 6j lines ; breadth 3 lines. 



Hab. Swan River. 



29. Stigmodera simulata, (PI. III. fig. 5). 

 L. & G. ii. Stig. 26, pi. v. fig. 27, {nee Hope) . 

 Buprestis Helenoi, Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc. iv. 215. 



"Nigro-«nea, thorace concolore, maculis quatuor irregu- 

 laribus elytrorum; corpore subtus teneo, pedibus 

 concoloribus." (Hope) . 

 Head and thorax purplish black. Elytra yellow, the 

 base black, and three very irregular black bands, ar- 

 ranged as follows : — a common diamond-shaped spot, 

 starting from the scutellum and ending not quite one- 

 third of the length of the elytra from the base ; between 

 this and the margin on either side are two longitudinal 

 spots, the inner margins of which touch the points of the 



