S E Benjrotk: 



posterior median part; antennae brownish rufescent, their first two 

 joints, the rostrum (except the piceous apical joint), and the legs 

 pale testaceous, femora and (less distinctly) tibiae dotted with 

 fuscous. Head and antennae constructed as in the type of the genus 

 (P. ierricolor Bredd.), rostrum leaching middle of metasternum, 

 second joint twice longei- tliau the last two joints together. Pro- 

 notum at apex distinctly broader than head, apical angles produced 

 in a very short apically tiuncate lobelet, lateral margins somewhat 

 laminate and a little rounded. Scutellum shaped as in the typical 

 species. Hemelytra slightly passing apex of abdomen. Sixth male 

 ventral segment in the middle as long as the fifth and half the 

 fourth together, its basal margin rounded; male genital segment 

 moderately ascending, the apical margin depressed, trisinuate, 

 the lateral sinuosities very .shallow, the median one much deeper. 

 Length, 3" 0.5 mm. 



Queensland. 



Apparently coming nearest to P. senioni, Horv., l)ut with some- 

 what shorter head, much darker three last antennal joints, different 

 colour markings, differently sculptured scutellum, and otherwise 

 punctured venter; the male sexual characters are probably also 

 different, but this sex of P. senioni is .still unknown. 



Fam. MYODOCHIDAE. 

 (Iktes, n. gen. 



Body subovate, beneath transversely sti-ongly convex, .someAvhat 

 compressed. Head shoiter than broad and Ijroader than apex of 

 pronotum, a little longer than anterior lobe of pronotum, innnersed 

 to the eyes, clypeus slightly longer than jviga, ocelli placed very 

 near the eyes, antenniferous tutercles perpendicularly descending, 

 contiguous to the eyes and ending .slightly beneath the level of their 

 lower angle, antennae rather long and slender, all joints linear, 

 first joint passing apex of head by half its length, second twice the 

 length of first, third one-fourth shorter than second, fourth as long 

 as third, thicker than the two intermediate joints, buccidae very 

 short, rostrum reaching middle of metasternum, first three joints 

 subequal in length, fourth shorter, l)asal joint i-eaching 1)ase nf 

 head, longer than fiist antennal joint. Piouotum tiapezifoiin. 

 twice as broad as head, transversely impressed a little before mithile 

 and with a depressed apical collar, all margins straight, only tlje 

 narrowly sublaminate or, rather, carinate lateral margins very 

 slightly rounded near apex. Scutellum as long as broad, with a 



