INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
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Head and thorax green, the latter with a small elongate spot 
on each lateral margin near the posterior angle. Elytra san¬ 
guineous, with three broad cyaneous bands placed midway between 
the base and the apex and equidistant from each other; the apex 
is also edged with cyaneous. Beneath flavous ; middle of thorax, 
a semicircular spot on the breast, the posterior margin of each 
abdominal segment and a round spot on each side of the first three, 
green. Legs green; femora with one or two large yellow spots. 
Antennae bronzy. 
Head punctured, with an impressed dorsal line. Thorax once 
and two-thirds as broad as long at the base; anterior margin 
raised, produced in the middle and slightly at its angles, half as 
long as the base; sides much rounded and raised; base very 
slightly sinuate; disk punctured, with a fine smooth dorsal line; 
punctuation of the sides deeper. Elytra punctate-striate, not 
quite twice as long as wide; sides sinuate above the middle, apex 
of each largely rounded. Beneath and legs punctured, the latter 
and the middle of the thorax with very short white hairs. Length 
14 lines; breadth lines. 
Hab. Australia. 
Stigmodera Martinii, PI. I. fig. 3. 
Caput ceneo-nigrum; thorax flavus , brevis , nitidus, minute punc- 
tatus, lateribus valde rotundatis; elytris flavis punctato- 
striatis macula humerali , fascia post medium, maculaque 
inter fasciam et apicem nigris; subtus flava pedibus cyaneo- 
viridibus. 
Flavous. Head bronzy black, with two small yellow spots on 
the forehead. Elytra with a black somewhat triangular spot near 
each shoulder; an arcuate transverse band below the middle, and 
a spot on each between it and the apex, black; the apex also is of 
the same colour. Beneath flavous; posterior margins of the 
abdominal segments in their centres and the legs cyaneous; 
