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example quite, in two examples not quite) to the extreme 

 apex, the lateral coloration brightly sanguineous throughout; 

 underside and legs steel-blue, very nitid. Clothed with 

 sparse white hairs. 



Head sharply sulcate on front. ProtJiora.r nearly straight 

 at apex, moderately bisinuate at base, sides of male subparallel 

 on basal third, of female subsinuately narrowed at base; 

 feebly arcuate at sides and gently narrowing to the apex, 

 anterior angles slightly advanced and rounded, posterior 

 angles subrectangular ; disc rather coarsely and closely punc- 

 tate, smooth medial line sometimes apparent, a small central 

 basal fovea and two shallow lateral depressions. Scutellum 

 triangular, concave. Elytra of same width as prothorax at 

 base, slightly widening behind shoulder, subsinuate near 

 middle (subparallel in male, slightly enlarged behind the 

 middle in female), sides near apex minutely serrated, the 

 extremity with small oblique lunation ; each elytron finely 

 bispinose, the exterior spine more prominent ; striate-punc- 

 tate, seriate punctures large and distinct, intervals convex 

 throughout, more strongly raised on apical half, the fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh abruptly starting behind the humeral 

 enlargement; intervals minutely punctate. Sternum densely 

 and coarsely, abdomen finely punctate. Dim., r, 15-7 x 

 5-6§ mm.; $, 17 x 6 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). 



In form and pattern somewhat of the dece.mmaculata, 

 Kirby, type ; but larger and without the yellow subapical 

 and head spots of that species: the underside blue, sides- 

 sanguineous, inter alia. The upper-surface is coloured almost 

 exactly like pallidiventris, C. and G., var. duct a, Blackb. 

 The irregular striation in the humeral region is unusually 

 marked. Types in the author's collection. 



Stigmodera browni, n. sp. 

 PL x., fig. 15. 



Elongate - subcylindric. Head, antennae, pronotum, 

 sternum, and tarsi dark-bronze, the head with coppery and 

 blue, the sternum with some cyaneous reflections ; elytra blue, 

 w T ith three yellow fasciae as following ; first subbasal, oval 

 fascia not reaching base or suture, but produced on shoulder 

 and humeral epipleurae as far as the lateral sinuation, second 

 a medial undulate fascia, narrowed internally and externally, 

 third an anteapical arcuate fascia ; the last two fasciae not 

 reaching the suture, but extending to the sides. Abdomen 

 blue, with long white hairs; legs greenish-bronze. 



