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surface largely and somewhat remotely punctured; just above the 

 scutellum is a larger round puncture. Scutellum large, cordiform. 

 Elytra punctate-striate, once and two-thu'ds as long as wide; 

 shoulders rather prominent ; sides sinuate above the middle ; apex of 

 each widely truncate, with a short external spine. Beneath and legs 

 punctured, covered with short white hairs. 



Length 5 lines, breadth 2. 



Hab. Australia. 



Stigmodera piliventris. (Plate X. fig. 31.) 



Capite thoraceque fortiter punctatis, a;neis; elytris rubris, macula 

 suturali post basin, fascia media maculaque apicali cyaneis ; subtus 

 cyanea, dense albo pubescens. 



Head and thorax bronzy. Elytra red, with a triangular spot on the 

 suture below the scutellum ; a transverse post-median band, which is 

 widest on the suture, and gradually narrowing to the lateral margins, 

 and a somewhat square sutural spot reaching the apex, cyaneous. 

 Beneath cyaneous, covered very densely with rather long white hairs ; 

 legs and antennse cyaneous. 



Head deeply punctured, channelled between the eyes. Thorax at its 

 base once and three-quarters as wide as long; anterior margin slightly 

 raised and emarginate; sides rounded; base bisinuate ; surface deeply 

 punctured, especially on the sides ; disk very convex, with a slightly 

 impressed dorsal line met at the base by a large puncture. Elytra 

 once and two-thirds as long as wide, puuctate-striate, the interstices 

 slightly raised, and deeply punctured, especially on the sides ; 

 sides sinuate below the shoulders; apex of each finely emarginate, 

 with a sharp external tooth. Beneath and legs punctured, densely 

 pubescent. 



Length 5^ lines, breadth 2. 



Hab. Queensland. 



Stigmodera carminea, H. Deyr. (MS.). (Plate X. fig. 32.) 



Capite thoraceque aeneis ; elytris sanguineis, tribus fasciis cyaneis ; subtus 

 cyanea, albo pubescens. 



Head and thorax bnmzy. Elytra deep red, with two wide transverse 

 bands, one close to the base touching it at the scutellum, and the 

 second near the middle, cyaneous ; between this and the apex is a 

 triangular sutural spot of the same colour. Beneath and legs and 

 antennae cyaneous. 



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

 three-quarters as broad as long; anterior margin emarginate, raised, 

 half as long as the base ; sides gradually rounded ; base with a very 

 shallow median lobe ; surface deeply punctured, with a slightly raised 

 dorsal line, met at the base by a large puncture. Elytra much 

 wider than the thorax at the shoulders, once and three-quarters as 

 long as wide, puuctate-striate, the interstices also punctured; sides 



