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dilatato ; capite prothoraceque sat crebre subfortiter punc- 

 tulatis ; illo longitudinaliter sub-tri-sulcato, sulco medio lato 

 parum profundo, sulcis lateralibus vix perspicuis ; hoc ad 

 latera baud marginato, qiiam longiori (et postice quam antice) 

 fere duabus partibus latiori, antice bisinuatim vix concavo, 

 lateribus a basi fere ad medium subrectis antice arcuatim 

 con v^ergentibus, basi in medio latissime lobata ; elytris 

 striatis, striis subtiliter punctulatis, interstitiis leviter con- 

 vexis minus subtiliter punctulatis, apice rotundato, mar- 

 ginibus postice baud denticulatis ; corpore subtus minus 

 fortiter minus crebre (sternis ad latera sat fortiter sat crebre) 

 punctulato ; segmento ventrali apicali quam penultimum fere 

 duplo longiori, baud aliter punctulato, postice rotundatim 

 (fere angulatim) producto ; unguiculisad basin baud dentatis. 

 Long., 111.; lat., 4 1. 

 A very distinct species. Tbe elytra are of a very pale straw- 

 colour, tbe lateral margin from about tbe middle to a little before 

 tbe apex being brigbt-scarlet, tbis scarlet patcb increasing in width 

 from its front bindward. Looking at tbe two elytra together, 

 one sees tbe cyaneous markings as one large continuous figure of 

 very complicated pattern nowhere touching the margins except 

 at the apex. By a little exercise of tbe imagination tbis figure 

 may be regarded as bearing some resemblance to a human form 

 seated, the rounded portion (deeply emarginate in front) near the 

 scutellum being taken as the bead, tbe fascia-like extension on 

 either side (about the middle) representing the arms extended, 

 the rounded dilatation (behind the middle) representing the out- 

 line of the bent legs, and the edging that runs round the apex 

 forming the feet. 



Judging from tbe description of *S'. ruhricauda^ Waterb., I should 

 judge that tbis species resembles it, but that insect appears to be 

 smaller, with tlie protborax unicolorous and the elytra "bluntly 

 pointed " at tbe apex (in S. Frenchi they are quite evenly rounded). 

 Tbe dark markings on the elytra of 7'ub7'{cauda appear moreover 

 to be confined to the base, the bind part of tbe suture, and the 

 extreme apex. 



It should be noted that the wide shallow lobe forming tbe 

 middle portion of the hindmargin of the protborax falls into a 

 corresponding emargination in the front of tbe elytra, as in 

 S. sanguinea, Saund., viridiciiicta, Waterb., and allied species, 

 near which, I think, tbe present insect should stand. 



Victoria ; presented to me by C. French, Esq. 



^S'. Witmnercp, sp. no v. 2 (?) Lata ; sat depressa ; sat nitida ; 



obscure ^enea; protborace (marginibus anguste peneis exceptis) 



et abdominis lateribus apiceque rufis ; elytris rufo-testaceis, 



margine antico et apicali (anguste) suturaque (angustissime, 



