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Stigmodeea rufocyaxea, n. sp. 

 PL ix., fig. 10. 



Elongate-oblong. Whole surface and appendages dark- 

 blue, with the following sanguineous red markings, margins 

 of prothorax, elytra with a wide oblong lateral patch behind 

 the shoulder, and a wide lateral vitta extending from behind 

 the middle to the apex. 



Head lightly concave, canaliculate, closely punctate at 

 base and sides, more distantly at middle and apex, the punc- 

 tures round and deep, with two raised laevigate spaces on 

 forehead. Prothorax 5 x 9h mm., slightly bisinuate at apex 

 and base, the former distinctly produced at middle, the latter 

 with wide shallow medial lobe ; widest at middle, thence 

 nearly straight to the base and arcuately converging to the 

 apex, this about two-thirds as wide as base : anterior angles 

 obtuse, posterior produced and acute; disc rather flat, margins 

 slig-htlv explanate : irregularly punctate, punctures round, 

 denser in front and sides, lateral margins rugose punctate; 

 medial line laevigate, terminating behind in a wide shallow 

 depression, two large basal foveae near margins. Scut ell urn 

 oval, concave, laevigate. Elytra rather depressed, less wide 

 than prothorax at base, sides subparallel, apex simply 

 rounded : punctate-striate, intervals nearly flat except near 

 apex, and sparsely punctate, the third and fifth mealing before 

 the apex, as also the seventh and eighth, leaving a small 

 rugose space. Underside finely and closely punctate, with 

 irregular clothing of thick long hair. Hooks of tarsi very 

 slightlv enlarged at their origin. Dim., 27 x 10 ram. 



Hab. — Australia. (Type in Macleay Museum.) 



A single female specimen in the Macleay Museum, 

 labelled ''Australia," is in form, especially of prothcrax, like 

 limhata, Don., and menalcas, Thorns., but is more depressed, 

 with flatter elytral intervals ; in colour it is not unlike 

 Metaxymorpha grayi, Parry, the lateral blood-red markings 

 contrasting with the dark-blue surface, making it an excep- 

 tionally beautiful species. Chibanti, Thery, has blue elytra, 

 with prothorax having a red disc, besides other notable 

 differences. . 



Stigmodera xotaticollis, n. sp. 



PL x., fig. 36. 



: " . Elongate-oblong. Head cyaneous (or greenish) with 

 pale pubescence, antennae golden-green, prothorax very dark- 

 blue, with a small red spot at the anterior angles, and a large, 

 oblique, triangular red mark on the sides : widest near, but 

 not reaching the base, and narrowing to a, fine angle near the 



