110 



403-417. Size smaller, 12 mm. long or less. 

 404-408. Pronotum bronze. 

 405-407. Underside bronze. 



406. Apices of elytra bispinose, elytral markings coppery — 



cupricauda, Saund. 



407. Apices of elytra feebly excised, elytral markings black — 



inconspicua, Saund. 

 *408. Underside blue, apices of elytra distinctly spinose — 



acuticeps, Saund. 

 409. Pronotum and underside metallic-green or bluish — 



flovovaria, Saund. ; flavopicta, C. and G. ; timida, 



Kerr. 

 410-420. Yellow postbasal marks isolated and round. 

 411-418. Prothorax concolorous. 

 412-415. Posterior margins of elytra serrated. 



413. Pronotum, underside, and elytral markings coppery or 



violet-bronze — violacea, Macl. ; cupreoflava, Saund. ; 

 equina, Blackb. 



414. Pronotum blue-black, widest at base, feebly convex, 



fasciae green-black — australasiae , C. and G. ; simu- 

 lata, Hope ; melboumensis. Thorns. 



415. Pronotum green-bronze, widest at middle, very convex, 



fasciae blue-black — assimilis, Hope. 

 416-418. Posterior margins of elytra entire. . 



417. Pronotum nitid-bronze, smaller than preceding — puerilis, 



Kerr; var. atrocoerulea, Kerr. 



418. Size small (6 mm. long), pronotum brilliant-bronze — 



minuta 3 Blackb. 



419. Pronotum fiery-coppery at sides, its disc and elytral 



fasciae bright-green — cydista, Rainb. 



420. Pronotum with yellow margins, posterior margins of 



elytra serrated — eremita, Blackb. 

 421-423. Elytra testaceous, with 3 fasciae, and the apex dark. 



422. Form narrow and acuminate, pronotum coppery, fasciae 



and underside blue — quadrifasciata, Saund. 



423. Form shortly obovate, pronotum and underside green, 



fasciae bronze — rotundato . Saund.; (?)var. aenei- 

 cornis, Saund. 



Note. — I have a specimen of rotundata from 

 Sydney in which the fasciae are represented by mere 

 dots; aeneicomis may well be another variety. I 

 have never seen it identified. 



S. crux. Saund., and acuticeps, Saund., are pro- 

 bably varieties of common species, but I have not 

 sufficient evidence to convict them of synonymy ; 

 marginicervex, Thorns. ; and libens, Kerr., have been 

 omitted from the tabulation as impossible to identify 

 from description only. 



Stigmodera porosa, n. sp. 

 PL ix., fig. 5. 

 9 . Elongate-ovate. Head, antennae, prothorax, scutel- 

 lum, and upper-surface of legs nitid greenish-bronze, under- 

 side and tarsi black-bronze, elytra brown-red, the numerous 

 large foveae thereon black or nearly so, the base narrowly 



