72 AUSTRALIAN COLBOPTERA: notes and new species. 11. 



apex) in d" and distinctly and closely punctate; underside punctate and clothed 

 with a fme, short, pale pubescence. Dimensions: c?. 11 x 4; 5. 15 x 6 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Mittagong (G. F. Deuquet) ; Victoria: Wonga 

 Park, 25 miles East of Melbourne (Ernest French). 



Two examples, the sexes, of tlhis vei-y pretty species are before nie, of which 

 the c? type is in Coll. Deuquet, the $ type belongs to the National Museum, Mel- 

 bourne. It is most like 5'. flavo-signata Mad., the form, colour, pattern on apical 

 lialf of elytra being almost identical; but Macleay's insect has a very different 

 pronotum, on which the blue and yellow form aJtemate horizontal markings; the 

 Ijasal half of elytra being also quite different. The gi-ound colour has the rich 

 blue of S. klugi C. and G., the pronotum showing ^dolet reflections. I have 

 called it militaris from the resemblance of the vitta and medial fascia to the Sara 

 Brown belts worn by our military officers. 



Stigmodera tropica, n.sp. (Text-fig. 9.) 



Oblong, glabrous; head, pronotum, underside, legs and antennae brilliant 

 green, the first two with brassy refieotions; elytra violet with ten yellow spots 

 as follows : two triangular near angle betweeai base and suture, two oval near 

 middle, one on each side of suture, two preapical forming a short curved fascia, 

 and two, very small, on each side, one behind the shoulder, the other even smaller, 

 opposite the medial spot. 



Head channelled and excavated between eyes, and together with the prono- 

 tum, regularly and closely punctate. Prothorax: apex truncate, base bisinuate, 

 sides rounded, narrower at apex than at base, anteiior angles widely obtuse, pos- 

 terior acute, a Smooth medial lino tenninating in a basal fovea. Elytra- lightly 

 enlarged near base, sides nearly parallel till near- apex, tlieoi a little sinuate be- 

 fore the widely bidentate apex, two short teeth bounding an arcuate excision ; 

 the exterior rather more prominent, posterior margins not serrated; striate-punc- 

 tate, intervals convex throughout, steeply so towards apex and themselves clearly 

 punctate; underside densely punctate, flanks of prostemum with coarse, meso- 

 stei-'rium with medium-sized, metastemum and abdomen with fine punctures, the 

 whflle glabrous. Dimensions : 11 x 4 mm. 



flaJ.— Cape York (Elgner). 



A single specimen (? c?) has long been in my cabinet, labelled by me "near 

 mansueta Kerr." A specimen from W. Australia in the South Australian Museum 

 labelled mansueta Kerr, by Blackburn exactly corresponds with Kerremans' des- 

 cription, and differs'from S. tropica not only in pattern, for which see Text-fig. 

 10 (which I give for comparison with my species, as well as to show my deter- 

 mination of mansueta Kerr,), but in having the head and underside bronzy and 

 thickly clad with pale recumbent hair, almost concealing abdomen, the latero- 

 humeral spot connected on the sides with the medio-lateral spot. Type in Coll. 

 Carter. 



TENEBRIONIDAE. 



Synonymy. — Menearchws impr.esso-sulcutus Carter = Pseudohlaps dispar 

 Hbst. It now appears that Mr. Deuquet took this at Colombo, Ceylon, but mixed 

 it with his Australian captures, without labels. (See my note, These Proc., xlv,, 

 1920, p. 231), On his recent visit to London he took his example to the British 

 Museum where Mr. Blair identified it as the Indian insect. I take this earliest 

 opportunity of correcting this blunder, and of withdrawing the name Menearchus 

 from the Australian list. 



