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The structural characters of this species seem to be quite the 
same as in P. Bovilli, Blackb., from which it may be at once dis- 
tinguished by its much smaller size and coarsely punctulate pro- 
thorax; the coarse puncturation of the prothorax in contrast 
with the almost obsolete puncturation of the elytra and pygidium 
and the levigate clypeus and scutellum gives the insect a very 
remarkable appearance. The propygidium (which is narrowly 
exposed) is opaque, and very finely strigose transversely ; it is 
probably an organ of stridulation. The vertical clypeus (at a 
right angle with the hinder part of the head) and extraordinary 
labial palpi render this genus one of the most remarkable among 
the Dynastides. 
N. Queensland ; sent to me by Mr. French. 
BUPRESTID. 
STIGMODERA. 
S. pictipes, sp. nov. (Mas.). Sat lata; minus convexa; flava, 
capite (nonnullorum exemplorum maculis quibusdam inter 
oculos exceptis) prothoracis disco basique scutello elytrorum 
basi summa antennis pedibus (femorum parte mediana ex- 
cepta) prosterno medio mesosterni metasternique suturis 
maculisque nonnullis et coxarum maculis nonnullis aureo- 
viridibus, elytrorum fascia communi angusta postmediana et 
apice lete ceeruleis ; capite minus crebre vix fortiter (quam 
S. tricolorate, Waterh., minus crebre) punctulato, concavo ; 
prothorace quam longiori duabus partibus (postice quam 
antice fere duplo) latiori, minus crebre minus fortiter (latera 
versus paullo magis crasse) punctulato, lateribus subtiliter 
crenulatis a basi circiter ad medium arcuatim divergentibus 
hinc ad apicem (vix sinuatim) convergentibus; elytris ad 
apicem late sinuato-subtruncatis (truncature angulo interno 
vix producto, externo nullo), punctulato-striatis, interstitiis 
vix convexis sparsim minus subtiliter punctulatis, basi 
sinuata (vix manifeste angulata) ; corpore subtus (abdomine 
excepto) lanugine brevi argentea erecta vestito ; sternis in 
medio sparsissime punctulatis; segmento ventrali apicali 
postice sinuatim truncato. Long., 14 1.; lat., 541. 
Much resembles S. tricolorata, Waterh., but differs from that 
species (of same sex) by its form less convex and less narrowed 
behind, its head considerably less closely punctured, its prothorax 
much more evenly rounded on the sides (which are finely crenu- 
late), its elytra having their base only sinwate (1.¢., wanting the 
angularity that is so well marked in tricolorata a little within the 
shoulder), their apex sinuately rounded without any spinose pro- 
cess whatever except a slight sutural projection and their inter- 
stices wider and flatter, its sterna much less closely punctured, 
