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darker band towards sides and apex, extreme lateral border 

 orange-yellow as on prothoracic margin, red at apex. (The 

 lighter colour on disc confined to the costate intervals, the 

 wide sulci being dark-brown.) Head and the whole underside 

 densely covered with long white hair. 



Head coarsely rugose, forehead nearly flat, scarcely- 

 excised, and faintly channelled, strongly produced in front. 

 Prothorax rather flat, bisinuate at apex and base, the latter 

 nearly twice as wide as apex, anterior angles produced and 

 obtuse, sides crenated, gently rounded and diverging to the 

 base, posterior angles rounded; surface coarsely vermiculate- 

 rugose, the raised rugosities smooth and nitid, two deep basal 

 fovea te punctures. Scutellum subcordate, smooth. Elytra 

 widening at the shoulders, then gradually and regularly 

 tapering to the apex, each elytron strongly bispinose at apex, 

 the exterior spine unusually long. Each elytron with ten 

 costiform intervals, including the sutural but excluding the 

 subcostate margins, the sutural costae terminating in the 

 apical spine, the second costa short and joining the fourth 

 near base, the fourth similarly connected with the sixth ; 

 costae 7-10 commencing behind the humeral swelling, the 

 ninth subobsolete; the costae smooth except for a few large 

 punctures; the sulci between costae wide and rugose-punctate, 

 with evident rows of large punctures forming crenulations to 

 the sides of costae. The whole underside, where not obscured 

 by dense hair, rugose, the raised vermiculation nitid; last 

 segment of abdomen with arcuate excision. Femora coarsely 

 punctate with long hairs, tarsal claws widened at base into 

 a small lobe. Dim., 42 x 16 mm. 



Hab. — Victoria: Beech worth. Type tf in the National 

 Museum, Melbourne; 9 in Mr- Lea's collection, labelled 

 New South Wales (probably Inverell). 



I have only seen these two specimens of this fine species. 

 The female presents a slight variation in the apical structure, 

 the wide space between the long external and the short sutural 

 spines containing an angulation, obtusely dentate, making 

 each apex subtrispinose. There is no sign of this in the male 

 specimen. The two are otherwise alike, except for the usual 

 sexual distinction in the last abdominal segment, in which 

 the female has a stronger tuft of hair than the male. The 

 species is very distinct from all the other described larger 

 species. 



Stigmodera gloriosa, n. sp. 

 PI. ix., fig. 8. 



5 . Oblong-ovate, robust. Antennae brilliant bronze ; 

 head and pronotum brilliant golden-green, the former with 

 an elongate orange spot on the face, the latter with large 



