772 HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA FROM EASTEKN AUSTRALIA, 



(mostly), antennse, labium, etc., reddish-brown or yellowish- 

 brown, the appendages somewhat varyingl}?^ suffused with fuscous. 

 Scutellum red-brown, posteriorly more yellowish, the anterior 

 angles and a median spot anteriorly, blackish. Tegmina pale 

 brownish-yellow, strongly punctured with honey-yellow and 

 brown, a fuscous brown spot near apex of corium, and another 

 sometimes at inner apical angle. Sterna and sternites black, a 

 wide interrupted stripe down the pleura medianly, the ambulacra, 

 etc., pale red-brown. Sternites medianly pale yellowish-brown, 

 the pleurites the same, with blackish-brown spots at intervals. 

 The whole underside strongly punctured. Middle and hind legs 

 pale brownish-yellow; basal three-fourths of femora more or less 

 blackish-brown; tibiae incompletely ringed with blackish-brow^n 

 ,near the base and near the apex, tarsi more or less fuscous, claws 

 black. Labium reaches to about the base of the prosternum. 

 Antennae 8, 17, 18, 22. The fore femora are rather more strongly 

 iricrassate than in P. burmanus, and are aimed with two colour- 

 less longer spines and several darker ones of varying lengths. 

 Length 3|-4mill. 



Hab. — Q.: Bundaberg (Sept.-Dec; Koebele). 



Sometimes the black hue is more overspread, especially on the 

 legs. 



Macropes Motschulsky. 



11. M. anthropophagorum, sp.nov. 



Reddish-brown, covered with short, pale yellow hair; basal 

 half of pronotum pale, except at posterior angles. Eyes and two 

 apical segments of labium blackish. Tegmina brownish-yellow 

 with a clearer area along the middle, membrane hyaline with 

 fuscous veins. Ambulacra, tibiae and tarsi brownish-yellow. 

 First segment of antennie reaching as far as the apex of the head, 

 8j 10, 8, 15. Labium not reaching quite so far as the fore coxae. 

 Posterior margin of pronotum roundl}^ emarginate. Tegmina not 

 nearly reaching to the middle of the abdomen; membrane longer 

 medianly than the corium, roundly truncate apicalh'. Length 

 4^ mill.; pronotal width 4 mill. 



