MB. E. SAUNDERS ON NEW SPECIES OE STIGMODEEA. 475 



sinuate below the shoulders ; apex of each finely emarginate. Beneath 



punctured, covered with short white hairs. 

 Length 6 lines, breadth 3. 

 Hab. New S. Wales. 



Stigmodera obscuripennis. (Plate X. fig. 33.) 



Capite thoraceque viridibus, punctatis ; elytris sordide rubris, tribus 

 fasciis viridibus ; subtus aureo-viridis. 



Head and thorax green. Elytra brownish red, with three green trans- 

 verse bands, one below the base produced on the suture, so as to touch 

 the scutellum, the second behind the middle, the third between it and 

 the apex, these latter two are united on the suture ; the apical one 

 does not reach the lateral margins, and is rounded on its lower side. 

 Beneath and legs and antennae golden green. 



Head punctured, depressed between the eyes. Thorax once and three- 

 quarters as wide as long ; anterior margin slightly elevated, and pro- 

 duced in its centre, half as long as the base ; sides rounded ; posterior 

 angles acute ; base with a shallow median lobe ; surface deeply and 

 largely punctured ; disk with a smooth slightly raised dorsal line. 

 Elytra rugosely punctate-striate, twice as long as wide ; sides sinuate 

 below the shoulders ; apex of each with a blunt tooth. Beneath and 

 legs punctured, sparsely covered with long white hairs. 



Length 6^ lines, breadth 2g. 



Hab. Swan River. 



Stigmodera cupricauda. (Plate X. fig. 34.) 



Capite thoraceque seneis ; elytris flavis, punctato-striatis, fasciis duabus 

 cupreo-brunneis, apice cupreo ; subtus senea, pubescens. 



Head and thorax bronzy, with greenish reflections. Elytra testaceous, 

 with two transverse bands coppery brown, the apex coppery ; the 

 upper of these becomes divaricated as it approaches the lateral margin, 

 one branch extending on to the shoulder, the other touching the 

 margin about a third of the length of the elytra from the base ; the 

 postmedian band is widest at the suture and slightly produced 

 about the middle of its upper margin. Beneath and legs and antennae 

 bronzy. 



Head deeply and largely punctured, impressed between the eyes. 

 Thorax once and three-quarters as broad as long at the base ] anterior 

 margin elevated, nearly straight, not qviite two-thirds as long as the 

 base ; sides rounded, posterior angles acute ; base almost straight. 

 Surface largely punctured, with a slightly impressed dorsal line. 

 Elytra twice as long as wide, punctate-striate; sides sinuate below 

 the shoulders ; apex of each finely bidentate, external tooth longest. 

 Beneath and legs punctured, densely covered with a long sericeous 

 grey pubescence. 



Length 6 lines, breadth 2. 



Hab. New S. Wales. 



