348 CATALOGUE OF 



Metallic-green, elliptical, tbinly and roughly punctured, wliitish 

 beneath. Head with three whitish spots forming a band between the eyes, 

 and with a whitish streak on each of the lateral lobes, which extend a little 

 beyond ibe middle lobe; two green spots on each side beneath. Rostrum 

 black, whitish at the base, extending a little beyond the middle coxae. 

 Antennae black, a little more than half the length of the body; first joint 

 extending to the front of the bead ; third hardly shorter than the second, 

 longer than the fourth ; fifth a little longer than the fourth. Tborax with 

 a slight transverse furrow, luleous along the fore border and along each 

 side, whitish along the hind border; a whitish dot on each side in the 

 disk and a whitish stripe; angles slightly acute. Scutellum with a luteous 

 callus on each side; an abbreviated white stripe which is most slender in 

 front; tip white. Pectus with two green marginal stripes. Abdomen 

 beneath pale testaceous, with green spots along each side; coxae and 

 femora white, the latter irregularly green towards the lips ; tibite striped 

 with white. Fore wings with a luteous costal stripe, which extends along 

 nearly one-third of the length from the base and there meets a subcostal 

 streak which joins a slightly curved luteous subapical band ; an oblique 

 white line in the disk; membrane blackish. Length of the body 4^ lines. 



Like S. piela in structure. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Country unknown. 



97. Strachia vesiculosa. 



Ciraex vesiculosus, H.-Sch. Wanz. Lis. v. 65, pi. 165, f. 509. 



98. Strachia minuscitla. 



Rufa, aspere punctata ; caput nignim, rufo marginatum ; rostrum nigrum ; 

 antennm nigne, corporis dimidio non longiores ; thorax nigro sex 

 viaculaius ; scutellum macula basali magna trigona guttisque duahus 

 poslmediis nigris ; pectus et venter e maculis nigris trivittuta ; pedes 

 nigri ; alee anticm striga lata postica, macula postmedia maxima 

 guttaque subcostati nigris , fimbria nigricante albido marginata. 



Bright red, elliptical, roughly punctured. Head black, bordered with 

 red on each side in front and on the fore border; sides slightly reflexed; 

 lateral lobes conniving beyond the middle lobe. Rostrum black, extending 

 to the hind coxae. Autennse black, about half the length of the body; first 

 joint hardly extending to the front of the head ; second a little longer than 

 the third ; fourth much longer than the third ; fifth a little longer than the 

 fourth. Thorax with three large black spots on each side. Scutellum with 

 a large triangular black spot on the lore border and with a black dot on 

 each side at two-thirds of the length. Pectus and under side of abdomen 

 with three stripes of very large black spots. Legs black. Fore wings with 

 a broad black streak extending from the base along the hind border, con- 

 nected with a very large pnstinedial black spot; a subcostal black dot 

 nearer the tip; fringe blactish, with a whitish pellucid border. Length of 

 the body 2^ lines. 



