GOLEOPTERA. 
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there is also a cyaneous spot on the first segment on its upper 
margin. 
Head deeply punctured, impressed and covered with short 
hairs between the eyes. Thorax twice as wide as long at the base; 
anterior margin emarginate, hut slightly produced in its centre, 
half as long as the base; sides much rounded; base straight; 
disk shining, finely and shallowly punctured, with a slight indica¬ 
tion of a dorsal fine just above the scutellum. Elytra at the 
shoulders not quite twice as long as wide, punctate-striate; sides 
sinuate above the middle; apices rounded, each with a short 
incurved sutural hook.* Beneath and legs finely punctured, with 
a few scattered hairs. Length Hi lines; breadth 4 lines. 
Hab. N.W. Australia. 
Stighodera flavicollis, PI. I. fig. 4. 
Flava; capite viridi ; thoraci punctato, margine anteriori elevata , 
lateribus rotundatis; elytris punctato-striatis, macula limner ali 
elongata , fascia post medium , apiceque nigro-cyaneis; subtus 
punctata viridis; abdominis lateribus et apice flavis. 
Head green, with two yellow spots between the eyes. Thorax 
and elytra yellow; the former with the anterior margin green, the 
latter with a small diagonally-placed fine near the shoulder; an 
irregular transverse band behind the middle and the apex, 
cyaneous. Beneath, legs and antennae green ; sides of the thorax 
and of the first three abdominal segments flavous, the last two 
entirely so. 
Head deeply punctured, channelled on the vertex. Thorax 
twice as broad as long at the base. Anterior margin elevated, 
half as long as the base; sides much rounded, their greatest 
* Whether this be a specific character, or merely a malformation, with 
me is a matter of doubt, as I have only one specimen of the species, but in 
this both elytra are exactly alike. 
I have named this pretty species in honour of Dr. James Martin, from 
whom I received the specimen. 
