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antice subi3laiiatis postice convexis, apice oblique emarginato 

 bispinoso (sj^ina externa multo majori), lateribus postice sub- 

 tiliter creniilatis ; corpore siibtus crebre subtilius (sternis in 

 medio multo minus crebre) punctulato ; segmento ventrali 

 apicali quam penultimum vix longiori, postice truncato vix 

 magis crebre punctulato, apicem juxta declivi ; unguiculis 

 simplicibus. Long. 7 1. ; lat., 2f 1. 



The puncturation of the prothorax becomes gradually coarser 

 and more sparse from the front to the base, but is not noticeably 

 coarser at the sides. The upper surface is in colour and markings 

 extremely like that of S. cupreojlava, Saund. (figured in Ins. 

 Saund. III. 1, t. 1, tig. 14), but differs in the prothorax having 

 its lateral margins yellow, in the basal spot on each elytron being 

 smaller, the lateral spot not reaching the shoulder, the hindmost 

 transverse spot not being continued hindward along the margin, 

 and the presence of a small spot close to the suture near the 

 apex ; the present species differs from S. cupreojlava also in its 

 much less strongly punctured prothorax, devoid of an impressed 

 dorsal line, tfcc. It also in markings and colour on the upper 

 surface closely resembles a form of S. ocio-spilota, L. & G., from 

 which it differs by its dark undersurface, differently formed apex 

 of elytra, less closely punctured prothorax, Sic. The combination 

 of elytra spinose at apex, prothorax with a yellow border, under- 

 side uniformly dark, elytra marked with yellow spots, M-ill dis- 

 tinguish this insect from all previously described bearing any 

 superficial resemblance to it. 



Victoria ; the type (in my own collection) was taken near 

 Ballarat. 



S. eremita, sp. nov. Sat angusta ; sat convexa ; sat nitida ; 

 ?enea (certo adspectu obscure cuprea vel cyanea) ; prothoracis 

 lateribus et in elytris singulis signaturis quaternis (sc. macula 

 prope scutellum subrotundata, macula marginali elongata 

 pone basin, fascia vix antemediana suturam fere attingenti, 

 et fascia pone medium suturam haud attingenti) 11a vis ; 

 capite (hoc late leviter longitudinaliter concavo) antice sat 

 fortiter minus crebre, postice sat crebre subtilius, punctulato ; 

 prothorace ad latera haud marginato, quam longiori (et 

 postice quam antice) circiter dimidia parte latiori, antice 

 leviter vix bisinuatim concavo, linea mediana irregulari la?vi 

 instructo, latitudine majori sat longe pone medium posita, 

 lateribus sat fortiter rotundatis, basi minus fortiter bisinuata ; 

 elytris punctulato-striatis, interstitiis vix distincte punctu- 

 latis antice subplanatis postice convexis, apice oblique vix 

 emarginato, partis subemarginata^ angulo externo spiniformi, 

 lateribus postice crenulatis ; corpore subtus sat longe minus 



