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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Head and thorax black, the latter with its sides flavous. Elytra 
flavous, with its base and suture narrowly cyaneous; a triangular 
sutural spot, a spot on each shoulder, a transverse band below 
the middle, and a somewhat square apical spot of the same colour; 
beneath cyaneous. 
Head punctured, with a deep impression between the eyes. 
Thorax at the base once and three-quarters as broad as long; 
anterior margin raised, slightly produced in the centre; sides 
rounded; base nearly straight; surface finely punctured, with a 
slightly raised smooth dorsal.line. Elytra deeply punctate-striate, 
not quite twice as long as wide; sides subparallel till past the 
middle; apices rounded. Beneath punctured; sides with scattered 
grey hairs. Length 7 lines; breadth lines. 
Hab. Australia. 
Stigmodera robusta, PI. I. fig. 8. 
Caput, thoraxque virides punctati; hujus lateribus post medium 
angulatis , ilia inter oculos sulcato ; elytris striato-punc- 
tatis sanguineis fasciis duabus, transversis macidaque apicali 
cyaneis; subtus punctata cyanea. 
Head and thorax green. Elytra sanguineous-red, a narrow 
hand just below the base, another behind the middle, which is 
broad at the suture and gradually narrows towards the sides, and 
a square spot covering the apex, cyaneous. The scutellum and 
suture between the base and the subbasal band are of the same 
colour. Beneath and legs cyaneous. 
Head punctured, deeply channelled between the eyes. Thorax 
at the base twice as wide as long; anterior margin narrowly 
raised and slightly emarginate; sides diverging in nearly straight 
lines for about three-quarters of their length, then converging 
to the posterior angles; surface deeply punctured, with a faint 
smooth dorsal line. Elytra once and two-thirds as long as wide, 
punctate-striate; sides sinuate above the middle, posteriorly very 
finely denticulate ; apex of each slightly emarginate. Beneath and 
