ME. E. SAUNDEES ON NEW SPECIES OF STIGMODEEA. 47t 



elevatis, sutura fasciisque duabus post medium cyaneis, maculaque 

 utrinque humerali oblonga ejusdem coloris. 



Head and thorax bronzy. Elytra testaceous, with the suture, a band 

 crossing it just below the middle, nearly touching the lateral margins, 

 a short semilunar spot between it and the apex, and the apex itself 

 cyaneous; above the band, between the suture and the lateral margin, 

 on each, is an oblong spot of the same colour. Beneath and legs and 

 antenna; bronzy. 



Head punctured, channelled between the eyes. Thorax once and two- 

 thirds as wide as long ; anterior margin slightly elevated and rounded, 

 a little more than half as long as the base ; sides gradually rounded : 

 base with a shallow triangular lobe ; surface punctured, punctuation 

 of the sides denser ; disk with a slightly impressed dorsal line ; near 

 each posterior angle is a small ror.nd depression. Elytra punctate- 

 striate, the third, fifth, and nir.th interstices much raised and 

 rounded ; sides sinuate above the middle, apex of each bidentate, 

 the outer tooth being produced almost into a short spine. Beneath 

 and legs punctured, covered with a cinereous pubescence. 



Length 65 lines, breadth 2|. 



Hab. New S. Wales. 



Stigmodera pictipennis. (Plate X. fig. 25.) 



Capite thoraceque viridibus ; elytris flavis, sutura, marginibus lateralibus 

 fasciisque duabus cyaneis, maculaque humerali ejusdem coloris; 

 subtus flava, viridi ornata. 



Head and thorax green. Elytra testaceous, with the base, suture, and 

 lateral margin from a third of its entire length from the base cseru- 

 leous ; a vitta of the same colour originates at the base, and joins the 

 lateral margin where the latter becomes cseruleous, so as to leave the 

 margin between the point of juncture and the base testaceous ; there 

 is a band of the same colour behind the middle, slightly bent down- 

 wards from the suture to the lateral margin, and a similar shorter 

 one between it and the apex. Beneath testaceous ; sides of breast, a 

 triangular spot on the same, a semilunar one on the first abdominal 

 segment, and the posterior margins of the rest green; there is also 

 a small green spot on the first three, near the lateral margin ; legs and 

 antennae green. 



Head deeply punctured, furrowed between the eyes. Thorax once and 

 two-thirds as wdde as long ; anterior margin produced in the centre, 

 two-thirds as long as the base ; sides much rounded just behind the 

 anterior angles, then subparallel to the base, which is nearly straight ; 

 surface very closely punctured, with an irregular smooth dorsal line. 

 Elytra twice as long as wide, deeply and rugosely punctate-striate ; 

 sides subparallel for two-thirds of their length, slightlj'^ reflexed; apex 

 of each terminating in a sharp exterior tooth. Beneath and legs 

 punctured, covered with scattered white hairs. 



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