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its green markings distinctly of a golden tone, its prothoracic 
green marking continuous to the front margin, its post median 
and apical elytral fascie much narrower, and its femora yellow 
on their under-surface (except a narrow edging of golden-green 
colour). 
W. Australia; near York ; presented to me by Mr. French. 
S. Caroli, sp. nov. (Fem.). Minus lata ; minus convexa ; supra 
rufa, capite prothorace (hoc maculis 3 magnis rufis transversim 
positis ornato) et elytrorum basi summa apiceque summo 
eeneoviridibus ; subtus eneoviridis, abdominis segmentis 
ultimis 3 rufo-maculatis ; capite vix concavo linea mediana 
longitudinali impresso ; prothorace quam longiori paullo plus 
quam duabus partibus (postice quam antice duplo) latiori, 
crebre fortiter (latera et basin versus magis grosse minus 
crebre) punctulato, lateribus crenulatis fortiter rotundatis 
(latitudine majori pone medium posita), basi quam elytrorum 
basis sublatiori ; elytris ad apicem rotundatis, punctulato- 
striatis, interstitiis sat convexis sparsim punctulatis, basi 
sinuatim truncata; corpore subtus latera versus confertim 
fortiter inequaliter punctulato (hic illic vermiculato-rugu- 
loso), parte mediana inequaliter sculpturata (sc. prosterno 
antice transversim fortiter rugato, hoc postice metasterno et 
abdominis basi sparsim punctulatis); segmento ventrali 
apicali postice rotundato, ante apicem transversim depresso. 
Var. elytris et prothoracis maculis pallide testaceis, illis pone 
medium macula transversa communi nigra ornatis. 
Maris (exempli descripti) prothorace concolori obscure eneo- 
viridi, segmentis ventralibus (basali antice et in medio ex- 
cepto) totis testaceis, segmenti ultimi parte apicali carente. 
Long., 12—14 1.; lat., 5—6 1. 
I have no doubt of the three specimens before me appertaining 
to one species only. They seem to have been taken in company 
with the preceding. I have described the female in preference to 
the male on account of the latter being a considerably damaged 
and breken example. I cannot specify any Stigmodera to which 
this insect is very closely allied, though it bears a general resem- 
blance to several; perhaps it comes nearest to Menalcas, Thoms., 
but that species, besides considerable difference in colour, is of 
narrower and more convex form, more pilose on the under-surtace, 
with its prothorax much less strongly rounded on the sides, &c. 
In both the female examples before me the prothorax bears a 
large testaceous or red spot on each side nearly touching the 
lateral margin, and a smaller one on the hinder part of the disc 
separated by only narrow intervals on either side from the larger 
spots. As Mr. French’s surname has already been used by me 
for a Stigmodera that was described almost simultaneously, but a 
