COLEOPTERA. 
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Head and thorax bronzy. Elytra croceous-red, with their 
suture black, the colour spreading into a diamond-shaped spot just 
above the apex. Beneath and legs cyaneous. 
Head punctured, deeply channelled between the eyes. Thorax 
at the base not quite twice as wide as long. Anterior margin 
raised and slightly emarginate; sides rounded from just behind 
the anterior angles; base with a slight median lobe. Disk 
punctured; dorsal line with a large round fovea at its base and a 
small oval one near the anterior margin. There is also a small 
deep fovea near each posterior angle. Elytra very closely and 
finely punctured, each with four raise'd smooth costae; sides 
sinuate above the middle; apex of each rounded. Beneath and 
legs punctured. Length 5i lines; breadth 2 lines. 
Hab. Australia. 
Stigmodera nasata ( Reiche , MSS.), PL II. fig. 22. 
Capite thoraceque ameis punctatis , hoc irregular iter sex foveato; 
ehytris croceo-rubris quadricostatis inter costas punctatis; 
sutura postice apiceque nigris; apicibus subtruncatis tri- 
dentatis; subtus cyanea punctata. 
Head and thorax bronzy. Elytra croceous, their apex and 
suture for three-quarters of their length from it, cyaneous-black. 
Beneath cyaneous. 
Head punctured, deeply excavated between the eyes. Thorax 
at the base not quite twice as broad as long. Anterior margin 
produced at its angles; sides depressed near the anterior angles; 
posterior angles raised and rounded; base with a deep median 
lobe. Disk deeply punetured, with an oval-shaped fovea just 
above the scutellum, a large deep very irregularly formed one near 
each posterior angle, having somewhat an ear-shaped appearance, 
and a small deep oval one on the dorsal line touching the anterior 
margin. Elytra once and three-quarters as long as wide, punctate- 
striate, each with four strongly raised, smooth, finely punctured 
carinse; sides sinuate above the middle, swelling out below it; 
