(Footnote.  I may here mention, that in the collection of the British Museum there is a female of the Diaphonia frontalis, in colour closely resembling the male; and that the D. cunninghami of G.R.  Gray, regarded by both Burmeister and Schaum as the female of D. frontalis, is decidedly a distinct species; it was described and figured by M.M.  Gory and Percheron, from a female specimen now in the British Museum.)

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Stigmodera elegantula.

INSECTS.  PLATE 1, FIGURE 6.

Head cleft between the eyes; Prothorax above and beneath vermilion, with a greenish black spot in the middle, and two small black dots, one on each side.  Elytra with four double rows of impressed punctures, united at the end.  Apex with two sharp points, the outer the longest, a notch between them; the elytra are vermilion, the base has a narrow transverse green band, an angular dark green spot before the middle, with two deep notches in front, and rounded behind, behind this and connected with it by a narrow sutural line of the same colour, is a fascia running quite across the angle in the middle of each elytron, and dilated on the suture, the tip of each elytron is broadly pointed with the same dark green; meso- and metathorax beneath, dark green, as are the legs.  Abdomen vermilion.

Length about 6 lines.

Habitat:  North-West Coast of New Holland.

This species comes near Conognatha concinnata Hope.  Proceedings of the
Entomological Society Annals of Natural History 11 318.

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Stigmodera saundersii.  Hope Transactions of the Entomological Society 4 213.

STOKES, INSECTS.  PLATE 1, FIGURE 8.

Black, with a bluish green hue.  Head in front bronzed, deeply punctured.  Thorax deeply punctured, with three deep black longitudinal lines above, the middle one broadest:  Elytra orange red, with four keels and two rows of deep punctures between each; edge slightly serrated; end of each tapering so as to leave a notch when both are closed; tip broadly black, inclined to green in some lights; a large roundish black patch common to both elytra on the middle, base narrowly edged with black, the shoulders with a black lineolet and a small round black spot across the suture; legs and under parts of a deep bluish black, with a slight tinge of green.

Habitat:  Van Diemen’s Land.

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Stigmodera erythrura.

INSECTS.  PLATE 1, FIGURE 7.

Head greenish yellow, deeply punctured, a black band, sinuated in front between the eyes, on the back part of the head.  Thorax above black, sides and a narrow line down the middle yellow.  Elytra gradually tapering to the end, black with the margin at the base yellow, and a somewhat broader line of the same colour near the suture; on each elytron are three yellow spots, the middle one largest and tipped with red on the outside.  Legs and under side greenish yellow; three last segments of abdomen beneath of a rust colour with four longitudinal rows of yellow spots.