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transversely extending to the sides, and a triangular apical 

 spot, with its apex at the apex of the elytra, bordered on each 

 side sanguineous; abdomen red. 



Head excavated and channelled, and, like the pronotum, 

 densely punctate. Prothorax very convex, nearly straight in 

 front, slightly bisinuate behind, sides gently and evenly 

 rounded, oblique anteriorly, anterior angles depressed and 

 wide, posterior rectangular, without medial impression. 

 Scutellum triangular, depressed, and punctate. Elytra of 

 same width as prothorax at base, less than twice as long as 

 wide, sides nearly straight, little narrowed behind, each apex 

 subtruncate with two very short equal spines, subapical mar- 

 gins entire; punctate-striate, intervals closely and finely 

 punctate, nearly flat on disc, the first three wider than the 

 rest, external two costate. Underside finely punctate, with 

 short white pubescence. Dim., 12-13 x 4'7-5 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Duaringa; and South Australia (?). 

 Macleay and South Australian Museums. 



Two specimens, both female, examined. The type from 

 Duaringa, the other labelled "Jung" (collector's name), prob- 

 ably from South Australia. It is near burclielli, C. and G., 

 and cara, Blackb., but differs from the first by its yellow 

 abdomen and elytral pattern, from the second in the absence 

 of sub-apical serration (said to be "fort iter de7iticidatis ,} in 

 cara) and the widely subtruncate apices, besides having a 

 different elytral pattern. I have named it after Professor 

 Haswell, the honorary director of the Macleay Museum. 

 Tvpe in Macleav Museum. 



Stigmodera lepida, n. sp. 

 PL x., figs. 25 and 26. 



Elongate-acuminate, subcylindric. Head and pronotum 

 dark violet-blue, the former with some coppery reflections,, 

 elytra blue with orange or brick-red markings as following : 

 two oval basal spots not quite reaching the base, two narrower 

 antemedial oval spots behind the former (in the female 

 example the first pair coalesce with the second pair, forming 

 an irregular longitudinal stripe) ; a narrow marginal stripe 

 extending from the base to the end of the anteapical fascia 

 (in the male this is narrowly connected with the basal spot, 

 in the female not so) ; an irregular, postmedial, horizontal 

 fascia, not nearly reaching the suture, and a somewhat similar 

 anteapical fascia; underside of male dark metallic-copper, 

 very nitid, of female blue-black, with* coppery reflections. 



Head and pronotum regularly punctate, the former 

 depressed and channelled on front, the latter moderately 

 convex, with faint indication of a medial line near the basal 



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