786 HETEROPTEROUS HE.MIPTERA FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA, 



sanguineous, femora basally pale, fore and middle tibiae pallidly 

 annulated near the apex, hind tibiee apically pale. 



9. Length to apex of cuneus, 5 mill. 



Hah. — Queensland (Aug.; Perkins). 



Helopeltis Signoret. 



36. H. AUSTRALLE, Sp.nOV. 



/J. Head and apical third of abdomen shining black; ocular 

 orbits, cl3'peus, labium (except apex), underside of head, sterna, 

 etc., pale yellowish. First segment of antennas piceous, apex 

 red-brown, second and third black (fourth absent . Pronotum 

 and scutellum yellowish-orange, disk of the former redder, horn 

 fuscous. Tegmina dark chiereous-hyaline, exterior margin, veins 

 and apical margin of corium olivaceous. Coxae yellowish, rest 

 of legs olivaceo-testaceous, femora annulated with olivaceous. 

 Abdomen basally pale fuscous. Head and eyes nearly as wide 

 as the hind margin of the pronotum. Second segment of antennae 

 one-half longer than the first and about one-seventh longer than 

 the third. Labium about three-fourths of the length of the first 

 segment of the antennge, reaching nearly to hind coxae. Horn 

 about three-seventh of the length of the first segment of the 

 antennae, straight, evenly cylindric right up to the capitate apex, 

 apparently erect (but partl}^ broken at the base and lying on its 

 side). Length 6 mill. 



Hah. — Q.: Kuranda (Aug.; Perkins). 



Synthlipsis, gen.nov. 



Belongs to the Capsini, but has no close relations. 



Eyes slightly pedicellate, raised distinctly about the level of 

 the vertex, subcontiguous to collar. Vertex longitudinally 

 sulcate, with eyes not so wide as the pronotum behind. Second 

 segment of antennae elongate, flattened and widened gradually 

 from the middle to the apex, which is narrowly rounded. Pro- 

 notum constricted strongly, a trifle in front of the middle, base 

 of anterior area slightly narrower than the apical margin; lateral 



