Spdcits hehyilginr) to IlhyncKotal Fain. Pentatnmid/v. 109 



spots on each lateral area of sternum, abdonunul incisures, and trans- 

 verse elongate stigmatal spots, black. Legs and rostruiu reddisU- 

 ocliraceous, apex of rostrum black. Autenn;e with the first and 

 second joints reddish-ochraceous, third and fourth joints isiceous-.- 

 the base of the third joint reddish-ochraceous, fifth joint piceous with 

 its basal half ochraceous. Membrane browny-black. 



Second joint of antenna? much shorter than third ; head with the 

 margins of the central lobe deeply depressed and piceous. Aljove 

 coarsely punctate and subrugulose, apex of scutellum finely and 

 obscurely punctate ; pronotum with two linear rows of black 

 punctures near anterior margin. 



Long. 13 millim. Exp. pronot. ang. 8 millim. 



HaUtat. Angola (Brit. Mus.). 



Stcnoziigum miniatidum, sp, n. (Plate IT, fig. 7.) 



Dark indigo-blue ; head with a central basal spot, a transverse 

 spot in front of eyes, and a frontal elongate spot on each lateral lobe, 

 ochraceous ; pronotum with the anterior margin and the posterior 

 margins of the humeral angles — narrowly — the lateral margins, a 

 broad central longitudinal fascia, and a small transverse spot on 

 disk — sometimes absent — ochraceous, the anterior half of the central 

 fascia and the lateral margins tinged with reddish ; scutellum with a 

 large reddish-ochraceous spot near each basal angle, and with a 

 central longitudinal ochraceous fascia which broadens into a large 

 quadrate spot before apex and then lineately continued to apex which 

 is also ochraceous ; corium with the basal lateral margin, an oblique 

 spot on disk, and a large transverse spot near apex, ochraceous— the 

 last tinged with reddish. Connexivum alternately ochraceous and 

 black. Body beneath and legs ochraceous ; tibise, tai'si, apices of 

 femora, rostrum, and lateral spots to sternum and abdomen dark 

 indigo-blue. 



Body elongate, moderately compressed, pronotum and scutellum 

 with scattered coarse punctures ; corium thickly punctate ; membrane 

 a little longer than abdomen, brassy -black with its apical margin pale 

 fuscous. Second joint of antennae much shorter than the third, third, 

 fourth, and fifth joints subecjual in length. 



Long. 7 millim. Exp. pronot. ang. 4 millim. 



Habitat. North-West Australia, Cassiui Island and 

 Queen's Islet (J. J, Walker — Brit. Mus ). 



Dismegistus funchris, sp. n. (Plate II, fig. 8.) 

 Black ; lateral and posterior margins of pronotum, basal half of 



