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XIV. Bhynchota from the Australian and Pacific Regions. 
By W. L. Disranrt. 
[Read June 1st, 1881.] 
Havine recently had an opportunity, through the 
courtesy of Dr. Schmeltz, of examining the Rhynchota 
contained in the Museum Goddefroy of Hamburg, which 
is principally, if not entirely, derived from the above 
regions, | have, by the additional aid of specimens in my 
own collection, been enabled to add a number of new 
species to these faunas. The following is the first 
contribution, and is interesting in adding four Australian 
species to the genus Menida, a genus hitherto con- 
sidered peculiar to the Ethiopian, Oriental, and Kastern 
Palearctic Regions. 
HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
PENTATOMIDA. 
PENTATOMIN. 
Niarius illuminatus, n. 8. 
Dark fuscous; head with the lateral margins and a 
central longitudinal line, pronotum with the lateral 
margins and two small central levigate spots on disk 
situated a little before middle, scutellum with two 
impunctate spots near basal angles and apex, base of 
costal margin of corium, connexivum, lateral margins of 
sternum, lateral margins and disk of abdomen beneath, 
cox, legs, and rostrum, luteous. Antenne black, with 
the outer margin of basal and bases of two apical joints 
luteous. The basal joint of the antennz does not reach 
the apex of the head. Head transversely striate ; pro- 
notum thickly and finely punctate ; lateral margins 
ampliated and sinuated; base slightly gibbous and 
subrugulose. Scutellum finely punctate, and faintly and 
transversely wrinkled near base. Corium finely punctate. 
Under side of head, sternum, and lateral margins of 
abdomen, thickly punctate. 
TRANS. EN’. soc. 1681.—PART II. (JULY.) 
