New Genera and Species of Australia ii Hemiptera. 5 



Queensland. 



Apparently allied to the insufficiently deseiibed I', uin'for/iiis 

 Sellout., but Avithout the eonspieuous black inipunctate area of the 

 <orium, and remarkable by the eoarse puneturation of the evapora- 

 tive areas and venter. 



POECILOMETI.S GIBBICEPS, U. sp. 



Rather broadly oval, luteous, above rather thickly but not 

 uniformly punctured with dark fuscous or blackish, head mostly 

 not or very sparingly punctate, Init with four densely punctulate 

 dark fuscous stripes, the outer one on eacli side percurrent, the two 

 inner stripes only extended through the vertex or much less dis- 

 tinctly indicated before it, six more or less distinct longitudinal 

 stripes to pronotum and two oblong spots to mesocorium, all com- 

 posed of more thickly set dark punctures, the outermost pronotal 

 stripe placed close to the lateral margin, the next on each side 

 oblique, subparallel with the sublateral stripe, the two median 

 stripes forming a straight continuation of the outer stripes of the 

 head, the anterior mesocorial spot placed just before the middle at 

 the cubital vein, the posterior spot a little behind the middle at the 

 radial vein, two apical spots to pronotum extended to the posterior 

 margin of the cicatrical areas, and a more or less distinct vitta to 

 anterior half of mesocorium sparingly punctate, lateral margins of 

 pronotum (narrowly), a pronotal median vitta (very narrow or 

 obliterated in the posterior half), a callus at l)asal angles of 

 scutellum, an almost percurrent median vitta to it (sometimes 

 longitudinally punctate in the middle) and its apex (broadly), the 

 veins of the corium. its apical and costal margins (the latter at 

 least from base to middle), and exterior margin of connexivum 

 impunctate, membrane blackish with whitish veins, head beneath 

 extremely finely almost concolorously punctulate, only the bucculae 

 and a small area adjacent to their posterior part punctured with 

 fuscous, pectus with a fuscous sublateral streak in the anterioi- half 

 of the propleurae and with an irregular sublateral spot to mesu- 

 pleurae, an oblong exterior spot to the evaporative area, and a 

 triangular spot at interior end of this area plumbeous, all pleurae 

 (including acetabula) more or less sparsely punctate with fuscous, a 

 subquadrate spot adjoining the base of the four anterior acetabula 

 and the space between tlie exterior margin of the irregularly 

 rugose but impimctate? evaporative areas and the lateral margin of 

 the metapleurae impunctate. abdomen Ijeneath with the extitine 



