BY G. W. KIRKALDV. 783 



segment nearly reaching to base of prosternum, distinctly longer 

 than the third. Length 6 mill. 



Q. Hind tibiae not clavate basally. 



Hab. — Q.: Kuranda (Aug.; Perkins). 



REDUVIID^.. 



P T I L c N p: M I D I A Kirkaldy. 



30. P. PLUMiFER (Horvath). 



Hab. — Q.: Brisbane (June; Perkins); previously recorded from 

 Pockhampton, and from New South Wales. 



GERRID^. 

 Rhagovelia Mayr. 



31. P. AUSTRALICA, Sp.nOV. 



Apterous 9. Head blackish-brown, a large roundly trifid 

 mark at the base, and the apical margin in front of the eyes, 

 yellowish-brown. Pronotum blackish-brown; the anterior margin 

 broadly, a narrow line down the middle, and the hind margin 

 broadly, yellowish-brown. Metanotum yellowish-brown, except 

 the anterior margin narrowly and a median spot. Sterna and 

 pleurae yellowish-brown, with blackish-brown incisures, &c. 

 Antennae blackish-brown, except the j^ellowish-brown basal third 

 of the first segment. Labium yellowish-brown, apex blackish- 

 brown. Leys blackish-brown ; ambulacra, coxa?, trochanters 

 (except apical margin), basal half of fore femora, base of hind 

 femora, &c., yellowish-brown. 



Subfusiform; head much narrower than the pronotum, which 

 is narrower than the metanotum; vertex triangular with truncate 

 apex. Antennae 10, 7, 6, 5. Labium reaching just beyond fore 

 coxa?. Pronotum roundly hexagonal. Mesosternum obliquely 

 ridged on each side, the keels almost contiguous apically, some- 

 what as in B. j^eggice. Middle tibia about as long as the sub- 

 ec^ual tarsal segments. Hind femora strongly incrassate, dentate. 



