132 

 • 

 punctate., the latter obscured by hair. Dun., 12-13 x 4-4 J 

 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia : Cunderdin. Type in Western 

 Australian Museum. 



Three specimens, identical in colour and markings, 

 suggest coccinata, Hope, or guttaticollis, Bilackb., in the 

 prothoracic coloration, but are without the lateral spots of 

 the former, and with larger discal markings than the latter. 

 The elytral spots are placed as in septemspilota, mihi (which 

 has the apex dark and is differently shaped). A very distinct 

 species that I have seen in no other collection. 



Stigmodera attentjata, n. sp. 

 PI. x., fig. 29. 



Elongate, attenuated in front and behind. Head 

 coppery, with purple reflections, mouth blue, antennae green ; 

 pronotum purple with greenish reflections, elytra yellow with 

 narrow basal margin green ; scutellum red with green border ; 

 underside cyaneous, the episterna and margins of abdomen 

 dark-green. 



Head excavated and canaliculate, with rather large 

 irregular punctures. Protliorax widest at base, slightly 

 convex in middle, rather flat and explanate at sides, both 

 apex and base very moderately bisinuate, the obtuse anterior 

 angles a little produced, the posterior rectangular not pro- 

 duced, sides narrowed in a gentle curve from base to apex; 

 disc finely punctate on middle, coarsely and sparsely at sides ; 

 a faint medial depression terminating behind in a round 

 fovea; two large foveate depressions near the posterior angles. 

 Scutellum cordate, depressed, and nearly smooth. Elytra 

 elongate, navicular, three and one-third times as long as the 

 protliorax, slightly widened behind shoulders, the sides then 

 gradually tapering to a fine apex, nowhere serrated, apex 

 lunate, and each elytron bispinose, the interior spine very 

 short, the external long; striate-punctate, intervals irregularly 

 and strongly costate as follows : third and fifth intervals 

 strongly costate, together originating at the base, the third 

 continuous to the base and produced into the strong external 

 tooth, the fifth joining the seventh before the apex, the eighth, 

 ninth, and 'tenth narrower than the third and fifth, and 

 originating behind the humeral callus, sixth interval briefly 

 carinate then widely convex, sutural, scutellary, and other 

 intervals flat. Prosternum coarsely, the rest of underside 

 very finely punctate, with sparse short hair. Dim., 

 12-14 x 4-5 mm. 



Hah. — Victoria: Fernshaw and Gippsland. 



