32 E. Bcrgroth: 



caiinate, very narrowly if at all reflexed, scai'cely indented at the 

 ends of the transverse impression posteriorly terminating the collar. 

 Seutellum indistinctly punctate. Hemelytra somewhat passing apex 

 of abdomen, corium and clavus very finely alutaceous, scarcely 

 punctate at all, clothed with a very short and fine decumbent pale 

 sericeous pubescence, membrane dull. Pleurae impunctate, serice- 

 ously pubescent. Abdomen beneath with the dispersed puncturation 

 almost imperceptible except in the two black patches where it is 

 more distinct, middle of ventral disk rather longly palely pilose; 

 second male genital segment witli its median apical part almost 

 vertically ascending, viewed from Ix'liind with a round impression 

 on each side of the middle, the apical margin unisinuate, the apicai 

 angles conically produced straight backwards, the three appendages- 

 prot)-uding from tlie interior of the segment pale testaceous, the 

 middle one shorter than the others, narrowly triangular, acuminate 

 at apex, the lateral ones with a small tubercle beneath at their base, 

 viewed from below parallel from base to middle, whei-e the outer 

 margin is angularly bent, being oblique in its apical half; seen 

 from the side the apical half of the lateral appendages is curved 

 with the convexity upward. Length (excl. membrane), c? 10 mm.. 

 ? 10.5— 11.8 mm. 



Near Glen Helen. Macdonnell Range; Illamurta, James Range. 



Belongs to the same group as L. fimhriaiux. Dall. (the only Aus- 

 tralian species hitlierto known), l)ut it is little more than half the 

 size of that species, and the coloration both above and beneath i& 

 totally different, excepting the head which is similarly coloured. 



21. Lkptocoris vulgaris, n. sp. 



Brick-red, pronotum (except calli and lateral margins), scutellum^ 

 clavus, corium, and in some specimens also middle of vertex 

 slightly infuscated, a subapical fascia to prosternum. all acetabula, 

 posterior part of pleurae, an apirai laterally abbreviated mostly 

 narrow fascia to the last three or four (rarely all) ventral segments, 

 antennae, rostrum, and legs (excluding coxae) dark fuscous or 

 l)lackish, memV^rane fuscous with an olivaceous tint, apical margin 

 of prosternum and acetabula, and often also extreme posterior 

 margin of pleurae whitish. Head with the oblique anteocular eleva- 

 tions rather narrow and well pronounced, juga slightly shorter 

 than clypeus and apically not raised above it, rostrum variable in 

 length, reaching base of second or apex of third ventral segment. 

 Pronotum thickly and finely punctate, shortly palely pilose at the 



