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ly widened at shouldere and compressed before middle, minutely serrated near 

 apex, apices rather widely lunate; striate-punetate, intervals finely wrinkled, eon- 

 vex at .sides and apex only. Dimensions: c?. 13 x 5; ?. 15 x 6 mm. 



Bah. — Busselton, Western Australia. (Mr. J. Clai-k). 



Five examples before me can only be confused with S. serratipennis mihi. 

 S. victoriensis Blackb. and S. eremita Blackb. From the first it is distinguished 

 by the absence of the yellow head spot, the apical spot on the elytra and the 

 yellow markings of the underside; from the second it differs in colour, more 

 elongate foi-m, the absence of apical spot on elytra and the impunctate elytral 

 intervals; S. eremita Blackb., besides its more oval form, has the ground colour 

 of elytra and underside a clear blue; the medial fascia joining the epipleural 

 spot, wider yellow margins to pronotum, inter alia. From all three the unusually 

 densely pilose undei-side is a good distinguishing character. The pronotum some- 

 times shows metallic reflections (greenish or violaceous). Types in Coll. Carter. 



Stigmodeea plindebsi, n.sp. (Text-fig. 6.) 



Oblong ovate; heiad, pi'otborax, underside, appendages and elytral mai'kings 

 violet coppery, subnitid above, more brilliant beneath; elytra yellow, with the 

 basal margins, suture (triangularly enlarged behind scutellum), wide pre-apical 

 fascia (nai-rowed at sides) and the apex widely violet copper. 



Head lightly concave in middle, densely punctate. Prothorax bulbous, a 

 little produced forwai-d in middle, strongly bisinuate at base, sides widely rounded, 

 widest at middle, front angles obtuse, the hind acute; disc densely and finely 

 rugose-punctate, a smooth medial line showing on basal half and a fovea at middle 

 of each lobe. Scutellum depressed, nitid, smooth. Elytra enlarged behind 

 shouldei-s, lightly cpmpressed before the middle, apices obliquely lunate; striate 

 punctate, intervals flat in middle, convex at sides and apex; rather coarsely punc- 

 tate, underside densely so and almost hairless. Dimensions: 8x3 (plus) mm. 



Hah. — ^South Australia: Flinders Range. 



A single spiecimen in the Australian Museum boars a locality label in the 

 handwriting of the late Mr. G. Masters, probably taken by liim. It belongs to 

 the small section of my tabulation that contains S. skicsei Blackb. and S. campes- 

 tris Blackb., but is quite unlike any of these (Nos. 195-203). The ground colour 

 is the imusual violet copper seen in S. cupriflava Saund. and S. cognata Kerr, 

 and in the pronotum of iS'. aurifera (above). The name commemorates the 

 famous navigator and indicates the habitat of the species. Type in Australian 

 Museum. 



Stighodera hoblerae, n.sp. (Text-fig. 7.) 



Oblong oval, rather flat; head and pronotum brilliant dai'k bronze, elytra 

 yellow with the following marking's blue-black : basal mai'gin and scutellary re- 

 gion, post-medial fascia enlarging towards and extending to the sides, connected 

 along the suture with a shorter aa-cuate fascia situated half way between the 

 former and the apex and extending over about half the width of elytra and the 

 apical spines; imdei-side and appendages blue-black, the former inconspicuously 

 pilose. 



Head deeply channelled and conca\'e, finely punctate. Prothorax moderately 

 convex, truncate at apex, bisinua.te at base, sides nearly straight and strongly 

 nan-owed from base to apex, front angte obtuse, liind acute; disc with shallow 

 puncturejs, fine near centre, coarser towar'ds sides, and three large foveae near 

 basal border, one at middle, the others near posterior angles. Elytra slightly 



