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PoLYZOSTERiA LiMBATA, Bumi. (Br., Syst., 205, fig. 23). 



" Body broadly elliptical, blackish, scarcely bronzy. Margin 

 all round very narrowly incrassated, golden yellow, except the 

 foremargin of pronotum. Pronotum with two impressed dots in 

 the disk. Legs uniformly reddish or piceous. 



Male. Female. 



Length of body ... ... 38 mm. 39 mm. 



Length of pronotum ... 11 " 1: 



Width of pronotum ... 21 " 



Habitat. — New South AVales (" Very common," Brunner). 

 Walker records a P. limhata, CharjD., from Europe {^=Lohoptera 

 limhata ? ), P. lirabata., Burm., and P. Umhata, Walker, from 

 "Australia," on pp. 152, 154, and 167 of the British Museum 

 Catalogue ; the last is possibly the larva of the second. 



PoLYZOSTERIA OBSCUROVIRIDIS, SpeC. UOV. 



Elongate elliptical, da7^k metallic greenish, margin all round 

 narrowly yellow. Head wdtli two minute ocellifo7")n spots in 

 front, antennae pale yellow, basal joints dark. Pronotum cucul- 

 late in front, finely rugulose laterally and studded with irregular 

 rows of large raised tubercles ; disk nearly smooth medially, 

 laterally with ridges and shallow depressions. Meso- and meta- 

 notum, also abdominal segments similar, but less distinctly 

 rugose ; hind angles acutely produced. Legs brown above, also 

 in front and the longitudinal half of the underside, remainder 

 pale yellowish ; tarsal joints pale at the apex and beneath. 

 Pectus and coxas pale, varied with brown. Ventral segments 

 with a trigonal metallic green spot on each submarginally, those 

 of the abdomen joined by a broad brown band, or a iine line 

 alternately, the penultimate segment piceous. Cerci very flat, 

 obtuse, yellow. Subgenital jDlate piceous, inner margin of val- 

 vules pale. 



Female. 

 Length of body ... ... ... ... 43 mm. 



Length of pronotum ... ... ... 12 " 



Width of pronotum ... ... ... 24 " 



' Width of abdomen 23 " 



Habitat. — Gawler Range, South Australia (S.A. Museum). 



A single female was captured in 1884 by Mr. Andrews, one of 

 the Museum collectors. It differs from P. limbata by the absence 

 of the two impressed dots on the pronotum, the texture of the 

 dorsal integument, the bicolorous legs, tfec, beside size and out- 

 line of body. 



POLYZOSTERIA IRIDICOLOR, sp. nOV. 



Broadly oval. Face, dorsum, stripes of cox?e and the sub- 



