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find nothing very near it. The following comparison with 

 undulata will serve to distinguish it, inter alia. 



S. undulata. S. neglecta. 



Colour — Head, pronotum, Head, pronotum, underside, 



and underside bronze- and elytral markings blue, 



green, elytral markings prothorax above and be- 



dark-green. low with patches of 



bronze. 



Prothorax strongly convex, Lightly convex, widest at 



widest near middle. base. 



Apices of elytra simply Widely excavate and bi- 



rounded. dentate. 



Abdomen glabrous, or nearly Densely pubescent, 

 so. 



Stigmodera propinqua, n. sp. 



PL x., fig. 19. 



Elongate, subcylindric. Head, antennae, prothorax, legs, 

 and underside blue, the last very brilliant; elytra yellow, witli 

 two small humeral spots and a sutural spot between these, a 

 straight (sinuate on its margins) postmedial fascia, and a 

 preapical macula varying from elongate-ovate to triangular, 

 blue-black, the last produced to the apex at the suture. 



Head moderately excavated and rather deeply channelled, 

 closely punctate. Prothorax convex, apex slightly produced 

 at middle, base very lightly bisinuate, widest at base, thence 

 arcuately converging to apex, anterior angles deflexed and 

 widely obtuse, posterior deflexed and subrectangular, disc 

 evenly, not coarsely, punctate, smooth medial line indicated 

 near base, terminating in a shallow fovea. Scutellum sub- 

 cordate, concave, laevigate. Elytra of same width as pro- 

 thorax at base and about three times as long, sides very lightly 

 sinuate, apex minutely lunate and very shortly bispinose ; 

 striate-punctate, intervals convex throughout, minutely and 

 sparsely punctate. Sternum coarsely and densely, abdomen 

 finely and densely punctate. Dim., 15 x 5 mm. 



Rah. — South Australia. Types in Macleay Museum. 



Two specimens (the sexes) in the Macleay Museum are 

 near conve, ra, mthi, in colour and pattern of the elytra, but 

 ■differ markedly in the following details: colour of prothorax 

 and underside (coppery-bronze in conve xa-J, less cylindric 

 form, much less strongly punctured surface, with entire 

 absence of any denticulation of sides near apex, the ante- 

 medial spot not connected with the fascia on the suture. It 

 differs from longicollis, Saund., in its much shorter prothorax 

 and different elytral pattern, more convex form, etc. 



