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INSECTA SA UNDE RSI ANA. 
spot below each shoulder are of the same colour. Beneath and 
legs bronzy. 
Head punctured, widely channelled between the eyes. Thorax 
deeply punctured, at the base once and three-quarters as broad as 
long; anterior margin raised, produced slightly in the middle; 
sides rounded; base with a shallow median lobe; disk with an 
indistinct dorsal line, posterior angles with a slight impression 
above each. Elytra finely punctured and striated, once and three- 
quarters as long as broad; sides rather deeply sinuate above 
the middle; apex of each with a fine sutural emargination. Beneath 
and legs punctured, covered with very short grey hairs. Length 
b lines: breadth lines. 
Hab. New South Wales. 
Stigmodera ignota, PI. II. fig. 17. 
Caput thoraxque aureo-virides, dense punctati; elytra punctato- 
striata , sanguinea, sutura, macula utrinque humerali, dua- 
busque fasciis post medium positis viridi-auratis; subtus 
punctata viridis, segmentis tribus analibus subtestaceis. 
Head and thorax golden green. Elytra sanguineous, with the 
suture widely near the base, a band meeting it just below the 
middle and another midway between it and the apex, golden green; 
there is an elongate diagonally-placed spot of the same colour on 
each shoulder. Beneath golden green; last three segments tes¬ 
taceous in their centres. 
Head punctured, deeply impressed above the mouth. Thorax 
at the base once and three-quarters as broad as long. Anterior 
margin.slightly raised, produced in the centre; sides rounded 
behind the middle; base with a rounded median lobe; surface 
deeply punctured, especially on the sides; dorsal line smooth. 
Elytra finely punctured and crenate-striate, twice as long as wide; 
sides sinuate above the middle; apex of each finely bidentate. 
Beneath and legs punctured, covered with grey hairs. Length 
7 lines; breadth 8£ lines. 
Hab. Melbourne. 
