Ill 



dark-bronze. Apex of head and whole underside strongly 

 villose, the hair on head yellowish, on underside white. 



Head densely punctate and slightly rugose, scarcely 

 depressed between eyes, with small smooth longitudinal ridge 

 in the middle of the forehead, sometimes finely channelled at 

 the middle of base. Prothorax moderately convex, width 

 one and one-half times the length, straight at apex, bisinuate 

 at base, with wide medial lobe, sides nearly straight on basal 

 half, more strongly converging towards apex, posterior angles 

 acute; disc densely and coarsely rugose-punctate, with smooth, 

 nitid, vermiculate intervals, sometimes with vaguely-defined 

 smooth medial line behind, and an even less-defined medial 

 depression on anterior area. Scutellum widely oval, with 

 central part depressed and finely punctate. Elytra slightly 

 widened at shoulders and again behind the middle, then 

 moderately converging to a wider apex ; each elytron widely 

 subtruncate, or with wide concave outline (as in grandis, 

 Don., as depicted by Saunders), the whole surface covered 

 with large foveae arranged more or less in longitudinal series, 

 the raised nitid vermiculations themselves sparsely punctate. 

 Sterna and episterna coarsely rugose, abdomen with round 

 distinctly-separated punctures, sparse on centre, dense at 

 sides, in both cases becoming much finer towards apex, basal 

 margins of segments quite smooth. Dim. — 28-30 x 12-13 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Caloundra (H. Hacker). 



Three specimens in the Queensland Museum taken by Mr. 

 Hacker are all female. The species is superficially like 

 sanguinosa, Hope, from Western Australia, but differs 

 markedly in the following characters, inter alia: — (1) Size 

 larger, especially more robust, and less navicular. (2) 

 Coloration less vivid, the underside and elytral foveae metallic- 

 black in porosa, golden copper or green in sanguinosa. (3) 

 Apex of elytra entirely different. It belongs to Sect. b. y 

 Stigmodera, as classified by Kerremans (Genera Insectorum, 

 p. 204). 



Note. — After six months the colour of the elytra be- 

 comes much darker, the red only noticeable at the apex, the 

 prevalent tone being blue-black, with here and there gleams 

 of the brown-red. 



Stigmodera franca, n. sp. 



PI. ix., fig. 11. 



Oblong-ovate. Head, underside, and legs blue-black, 

 pronotum bronze-black with violet reflections, antennae and 

 tarsi black, elytra chestnut-brown with a narrow basal margin, 

 the suture and apex widely blue-black, scutellum blue. 



