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Stigmodera elegantula. pi. I, Jiff. 6. 



Head cleft between the eyes ; Prothorax above and beneath 

 vermiUon, with a greenish black spot in the middle, and two 

 small black dots, one on each side. Elytra with four double 

 rows of impressed punctures, united at the end. Apex with 

 two sharp points, the outer the longest, a notch between them ; 

 the elytra are vermilion, the base has a narrow transverse green 

 band, an angular dark green spot before the middle, with two 

 deep notches in front, and rounded behind, behind this and 

 connected with it by a narrow sutural line of the same colour, 

 is a fascia running quite across the angle in the middle of each 

 elytron, and dilated on the suture, the tip of each elytron is 

 broadly pointed with the same dark green ; meso- and meta- 

 thorax beneath, dark green, as are the legs. Abdomen vermilion. 



Length about 6 lines. 



Hab. N. W. Coast of New Holland. 



This species comes near Conognatha concinnata Hope. Proc. 

 Ent, Soc. Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. 318. 



Stigmodera Saundersii. Hope Trans. Ent. Soc. IV. 

 213. Stokes, Ins. pi. I, Jig. 8. 



Black, with a blueish green hue. Head in front bronzed, 

 deeply punctured. Thorax deeply punctured, with three deep 

 black longitudinal lines above, the middle one broadest : Elytra 

 orange red, with four keels and two rows of deep punctures 

 between each ; edge slightly serrated ; end of each tapering so 

 as to leave a notch when both are closed ; tip broadly black, 

 inclined to green in some lights ; a large roundish black patch 

 common to both elytra on the middle, base narrowly edged with 

 black, the shoulders with a black lineolet and a small round 

 black spot across the suture ; legs and under parts of a deep 

 blueish black, with a slight tinge of green. 



Hab. V. D. Land. 



Stigmodera erythrura. PL \,fg. 7. 



Head greenish yellow, deeply punctured, a black band, sinuated 



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