464 MB. E. SAirNDEES ON NEW SPECIES OF STIGMODESA. 



Head and thorax coppery red, the latter with its lateral margins testa- 

 ceous. Elytra testaceous, with just the base and the apex for not quite 

 half their entire length of the same colour as the head and thorax. 

 Beneath testaceous, with the centre of the thorax, breast, and the 

 posterior margin of each abdominal segment, antennae, and femora 

 coppery-red. Tibiae and tarsi green. 



Head punctured with an impressed dorsal line. Thorax once and 

 four-fifths as broad as long : anterior margin produced, a little more 

 than half as long as the base ; sides rounded ; posterior angles 

 produced and acute ; base bisinuate j surface largely but shallowly 

 punctured, with a smooth dorsal line. Elytra nearly twice as long 

 as wide, striate, the interstices shallowly punctured; sides sinuate 

 above the middle ; apex of each somewhat obliquely truncate. Be- 

 neath and legs punctured, with a few scattered hau-s. 



Length 15 lines, breadth 65. 



Hab. Australia. 



Stigmodera Westwoodii. (Plate IX. fig. 10.) 



Capite viridi, duabus maculis testaceis notato ; thorace cyaneo, punctate, 

 lateribus late rubris ; elytris rubris, fascia lata post medium apiceque 

 cyaneis ; subtus ferruginea. 



Head bluish-green, with two small red spots between the eyes. Thorax 

 cyaneous, with the margins widely sanguineous. Elytra dark reddish- 

 yellow, with a wide transverse cyaneous band behind the middle ; the 

 apex is also of the same colour. Beneath and legs fulvous, with the 

 posterior margin of each abdominal segment, antennae, and knees 

 cyaneous ; exterior face of tibiae green. 



Head deeply punctured, slightly hairy in front, with a faint dorsal line. 

 Thorax once and three-quarters as broad as long ; anterior margin 

 slightly produced in the centre and at the angles ; sides much rounded, 

 base nearly straight; disk deeply punctured, with a shght smooth 

 dorsal line ; anterior margin with an impressed hne running parallel 

 to it. Elytra nearly twice as long as wide, punctate- striate, sides 

 nearly straight, apex largely rounded. Beneath and legs punctured, 

 with a few scattered hairs. 



Length 17 lines, breadth 7- 



Hab. N. Australia. 



Stigmodera thoracica. (Plate IX. fig. 11.) 



Rubra, capite, thoracis disco maculaque ad elytrorum apicem nigris; 



subtus cyanea, lateribus abdominis rubris. 

 Head black. Thorax and elytra sanguineous ; the former with its centre, 



and the latter with a large square sutural spot at the apex, cyaneous 



black. Beneath, legs, and antennae cyaneous ; margins and apex of 



abdomen sanguineous. 

 Head punctured, hairy, with a longitudinal impression in front, which 



widens as it approaches the mouth. Thorax once and four-fifths as 



