J. CARTER. 



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Willi the following maxkings dark blue (besides the above golden margins) : 

 basal fascia, widened and directed backwards on humeral callus; a transverse, 

 ov;d, pre-medial spot, extending across the suture, an iiTegnilar post-medial fascia 

 J'ormed by three connected spots and ■v\ide apical maik. 



Read ehannolled and lighth eonoa\e, denselv punct-ate. Prothorax very 

 convex, truncate at apex, strongh bismuate at base, widest at middle, sides lightly 

 rounded, feebly sinuate behind, anteiior angles obtuse, posterior acute; disc 



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1. Neo-bubastcs JJazo-vMata , n.sp, 

 3. Stigiiiodera anrifera, n.sp. 



5. S. darki 



N. aureocini/a Blackb. 

 .S'. aiirolitiihata . n.sp, 



densely, evenly punctate for the greater part, the punctures coai-scr and less 

 crowded at sides, a small round pre-scutellai'^' fovea and two transverse basal 

 foveae. Elytra enlarged behind shoulders, apices forming a single wide lunation, 

 scarcely spinose; striate punctate, intervals flat save at sides and ajiex. underside 

 densely punctate. Dimensions: 74 x 3 mm. 



Bah. — North Queensland: Cairns district (Mr. H. P. Dodd). 



A pretty little species, unique, from Mr. Dodd. of the fomi of ,s'. jMieriKs 

 Kerr., S. f estiva Cai-t. and iS". Mania Cart, with a colour plan near that of S. 

 auricollis C. and G., near which it would come in my tabulation. Tt differs from 

 any other Stigmodera by the unusual golden metallic edging to the eh^tra along 

 the base and suture, with the contrasted dark blue markings outside this. Type in 

 Coll. Carter. 



Stigmodera clarmi, n.sp. (Text-fig. 5.) 



Elongate ovate; head, pronotum, seutellum, undei-side and appendages dark 

 bronze, pronotum with yellow margins ; elytra blue-black with the following 

 markings yellow: oval basal spot, elongate epipleural spot, two fasciae extending 

 to sides but not to suture, the one medial enlarged on disc, the oblique extension 

 to sides narrower, the other preapieal, lunate, widest at sides; underside densely 

 clad with white, adpressed hair. 



Head channelled and closely punctate. ProtJwra.i- lightly bisinuate at apex 

 in middle, strongly so at base, anterior angles obtuse, posterior sulj-rectangnlar, 

 sides widest at middle, evenly rounded, disc closely punctate with smooth medial 

 line. ScuteUiim cordate, depressed in middle. Elytra convex, sub-parallel, light- 



