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having the sides of the whole basal half of the anteocular part 

 very broadly convex, continuously merged in the antenniferous 

 tubercles which are convergent; the eyes are shortly stylated 

 and so small that the vertex is about seven times broader than 

 an eye; the ocelli are situated twice as far from each other as 

 from the eyes ; the bucculae are low and straight ; the sides of 

 the pronotum are convexly rounded, sinuated only immediately 

 behind the apical angles; the scutellum is about as long as 

 broad ; the veins of the membrane are simple and few in num- 

 ber. In Stelgidophora, the convex anteocular part of the lateral 

 margin of the head is not longer than the eye itself ; the an- 

 tenniferous tubercles are well separated from the lateral mar- 

 gin of the head and not convergent ; the eyes are larger and not 

 stylated ; the ocelli are four times farther from each other than 

 from the eyes; the bucculae are lobed both anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly, the anterior lobe being rounded and deflected, the pos- 

 terior lobe subacute and directed backward ; the sides of the 

 pronotum are deeply sinuated ; the scutellum is much longer 

 than broad ; the membranal veins are densely reticulated. I 

 have seen the type of pallida in the American Museum of Na 

 tural History, New York. 



Commius minor Bergr. 



The type specimen is somewhat immature. In specimens 

 with the colors fully developed the two large basal spots to the 

 pronotum and the ground color of the corium are dark brassy 

 bluish green, not fuscous as in the type. This insect seems to 

 be much more common than the typical species, C. elegans Don. 

 It occurs in the whole eastern part of Australia and I have 

 seen it in several collections. 



Notius melancholicus n. sp. 



Oblong, black, four small upper basal spots to head, narrow lateral 

 margins of head, of pronotum and of basal half of corium, bucculae, 

 rostrum (except apical joint), basal ring of the two last antennal joints, 

 narrow margin of acetabula, coxae, trochanters, base of femora, a me- 

 dian ring to tibiae, basal joint of tarsi, and a spot on the external apical 

 genital lobe of female yellow. The last three antennal joints subequal 

 in length, second joint distinctly shorter than third. Hemelytra dis- 



