Volume I Part 45 (2/2)

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 e red, with four keels and ts 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 soe roundish black patch coed with black, the shoulders with a black lineolet and a ss and under parts of a deep bluish black, with a slight tinge of green

Habitat: Van Diemodera 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 theto the end, black with the in at the base yellow, and a somewhat broader line of the same colour near the suture; on each elytron are three yellow spots, the s and under side greenish yellow; three last segitudinal rows of yellow spots

Length about 6 lines

Habitat: New Holland (Swan River)

Clerus ? obesus

INSECTS PLATE 1, FIGURE 9

Head brassy brown; thorax brownish yellow, glossy; elytra with ular deeply pitted punctures, close to each other, an elevated knob at the base in the middle, the apical portion s into the pitted part, between the two are four short transverse lines of whitish hairs, two on each elytron; near the tip are two oblique patches of white hairs: head finely punctulate, covered with short hairs Thorax as it were two lobed behind, an angular depression in the s deep blue hitish hairs Length 5 lines

Habitat: New Holland

This curious species bears the above name of Mr Newman, in the collection of the British Museu seen Spinola's work, cannot refer it to its particular genus

SITARIDA, White

Head broader than long, swollen behind the eyes; antennae 11-jointed, first joint the longest, bent and gradually thickened towards the tip, second joint thin and cup-shaped, half the depth of third joint which is squarish, fourth joint oblong, dilated anteriorly at the ends, and larger than second and third together, fifth to the tenth joints so as the other four joints; eyes narrow and notched, the part of the head within the notch pro Thorax narrowed in front, rounded on the sides and soular, with a notched projection at the base; elytra very short, one-third the length of the body, wide at the base, narrowed at the tip; legs heterohs coht looks like a Meloe, is closely allied to Sitaris

Sitarida hopei

INSECTS PLATE 2, FIGURE 2

Black; elytra slightly pitchy; head and thorax thickly punctured; thorax with a crucifor before they reach the apex, the interularly punctate

Length 1 inch 5 lines