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Stigmodera flavo-purpurea, n.sp. 



Oval, depressed, shining, rather widely enlarged towards the 

 apical third. Head, antennae, prothorax, legs and undersurface 

 a bright metallic-green. Elytra bronze-purple variegated with 

 yellow pattern as in S. Jlavo-picta, Boisd., or (regarding the yellow 

 as the groundcolour) the purple pattern is as follows — a wide 

 sutural and basal margin, the latter extended to form a curved 

 longitudinal vitta from the shoulder, meeting the side again before 

 the basal half; a postmedian fascia widened at middle, and the 

 apex widely covered, with the front margin of apical blotch 

 Insinuate. 



Head and prothorax strongly and closely punctate, the former 

 canaliculate, the latter without any sign of a median line except 

 a shallow fovea near base; widest at base, with sides rounded. 

 Scutellum metallic green, cordate and depressed in middle. 

 Elytra regularly striate-punctate, intervals rather strongly convex 

 and finely punctate. Apex narrowly and ovally (longitudinally) 

 excised and undentate. Sternum coarsely, abdomen very finely 

 punctate, the whole rather thickly clothed with whitish decum- 

 bent hair. Dimensions — 10-12 mm. long; 3*6-4'6 mm. wide. 



Hob. — Medlow, Blue Mountains, and Jindabyne, N. S. W. 

 (taken by the author). 



This widely spread insect has, so far as I can discover, escaped 

 notice. There is no specimen in the British Museum or in the 

 Kerremans Collection. The pattern is almost an exact replica of 

 S. Jlavo-picta Boisd., as figured by Saunders (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1868, Part 1, Pl.iii. fig. 29), but it differs markedly from 

 that species (which I have from Adelaide, Tasmania, and from 

 New South Wales) in the following respects. In shape, flatter 

 and wider, with more sinuately widened sides to the elytra. In 

 colour, the prothorax and abdomen are of a much brighter 

 metallic green, while the elvtral colouring is even more emphati- 

 cally distinct, the darker part being of a coppery-purple. (It is 

 blue in S. Jlavo-picta). The sculpture and clothing of the abdomen 

 of these two species differ in a marked degree. It is altogether 

 a handsomer and more striking species. 



