776 HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA, 



segments of aiitenii?e brownish-yellow, fourth dark fuscous. 

 Under side blackish, prosterna. a large spot on the middle of 

 abdomen at base, etc., dark reddish-castaneous. Legs yellowish, 

 except a broad dark ring across fore femora, apices of segments 

 faintly fuscous. Length, ^ 4J mill. 



ifa6.— N.S.W.: Sydney (Feb.; Koebele). 



19. 0. PACiFiCA(Stal) [ = peripIanios Kirkaldy]. 

 l/ab. — Q.: Cairns (Perkins). Also in Fiji and Hawaii. 



V u L T u R N I A, gen. no V 



I suppose that this is really allied to Aphauus, but I should 

 have placed it near Fontejus had there been an}^ collar. 



Head triangular, declivous, but little narrower than the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum, distinctly wider than tlie 

 anterior area. Ocelli near base of head and eyes, probably 

 scarcely functional. Pronotum with the anterior area about as 

 long as wide, about as long as the head, subglobose, twice (or 

 more) as long as the hind area, w^hich is partly declivous, tlie 

 posterior margin emarginate. Tegmina and abdomen medially 

 narrowed, membrane not reaching the apex of the abdomen. 



20. V. ALBONOTATA, Sp.UOV. 



Black, thickly covered with short grey hair, also a few black 

 bristles. Pronotum and scutellum closel}- punctured; clavus with 

 three rows, corium with two inner and one outer row, also the 

 apical third apex of first segment of antennje and the fourth (3rd 

 aiictt.) ventral pleurite white. Hind angle of scutellum creamy. 

 Basal half of tegmina opaque-testaceous, mostly infuscate; apical 

 margin of corium broadly white (black punctures); membrane 

 dark smoky, with a large pale fulvous spot at apex. Tarsi 

 fuscous. AntennjB 9, 28, 23, 27. Labium reaching to about the 

 middle coxae, first segment not reaching the base of the head. 



(J. Fore femora strongl}^ incrassate, minutely spined; tibic^ 

 slightly curved, not spined. Length 6 mill.; pronotal width 

 UmilL 



IIab.~-Q.: Bundaberg (Sept.-Dec; Koebele). 



