[Proc. Rot. Soc. Victoiua. 29 (N.S.), Part 1., 191(5]. 



Art. I. — NrAv Genera and Sj^ecies of Australian Hemij^tera, 



By dr. E. BERGROTH, C.M.Z.S., Lond. 



(Couunuiiioated by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer, F.R.S.) 



[Read 9th March, 1916.] 



In a paper published many years ago^ I have described a number 

 of new Australian Hemiptera communicated to me by Mr. Charles 

 French, of Melbourne. Of the material sent to me by Mr. French 

 I had retained for further study a number of sj^ecies, partly 

 tjelonging to difficult groups, and among them I have found some 

 forms wliich are undescribed and of which descriptions are given in 

 the present paper. One new species of Myodochidae belongs to a 

 genus hither known only as Palearctic, and of the three new genera 

 of this family here descril^ed two are remarkable by showing a 

 de<:-idedly closer affinity to Palearctic than to !ndo-Australian 

 genera, but this is probably due to our imperfect knowledge of 

 the Myodochidae of the Oriental and Australian regions, the 

 members of this family being of small size and much neglected l)y 

 collectors. 



Fani. PENTATOMIDAE. 



EUMECOPUS VERMICUr.'^TUS, n. sp. 



Oval, ochraceous, head above with six percurrent fuscous or 

 partly dark ferruginous stripes, beneath witli four not well-marked 

 pale fu.scous stripes, pronotal cicatrical areas mottled witli pale 

 fuscous, an impressed spot between ocelli and eyes, and basal half 

 of the postfrenal jiart of the scutellum black, connexivum traversed 

 through its whole length by a piceous band, pleural evaporative 

 area tinged with ferruginous, membrane blackish-fuscous, the outer 

 veins paler towards apex, abdomen beneath with a broad percur- 

 rent sublateral ferruginous band which inwardly is rather diffuse 

 and disintegrated into small spots, and with a median vitta on the 

 sixth segment and the basal lobes of the female genital segment 

 ferruginous, spiracles fuscous; first two antennal joints dark san- 

 guineous, base of basal joint pale ochraceous, third joint pale reddish., 

 its apical half (except extreme apex) black (last tAvo joints wanting), 

 ro.strum dark testaceous, last joint piceous, legs purplish-red. 



Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vii., pp. 287-302 /1835). 



