344 Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy's Memoir on the 



segment of rostrum readies to the base of head, or at least not 

 beyond base of collar. Stink-gland orifices with a short sulcus, 

 reaching along half the width of the pleuron, but very distinct ; 

 margins curved, callose. Wings with a hamus. Legs unarmed. 

 Abdomen glabrous beneath. 



Dynamenais venustus, Walker. 

 Eetatops venustus, Walk., 1873, Cat. Hem., VI, p. 17. 



Dull black, marked with yellowish white. Head, except apex ; 

 pronotum, except collar, lateral and posterior margins ; scutellum ; 

 elytra, except costal margin, and the apical margin of corium — the 

 latter widely — and the apical margin of membrane ; antenna), ex- 

 cept extreme base of first segment, and basal two-thirds of the fourth ; 

 first segment of rostrum ; basal two-thirds of the femora ; apical 

 abdomen tergites ; sterna and pleura, the collar and the posterior 

 margin of pro- and metapleura excepted ; ambulacra ; basal half of 

 abdominal sternites in the middle and one or more of the other 

 abdominal sternites entirely ; black more or less dull, except the 

 more or less shining abdominal segments, the above exceptions are 

 all more or less yellowish-white except the sanguineous abdominal 

 tergites. Second, third and fourth rostral segments castaneous- 

 brown ; tibiae and tarsi pallid or brownish. The prominent parts 

 of the buceulee are ivory-white. Head dull, somewhat obscurely 

 rugulose, first segment of antenna} a little more than twice as 

 long as the second, and one-sixth longer than the fourth ; second 

 one-third longer than third. First rostral segment a trifle longer than 

 the second ; the fourth reaching a little beyond the posterior coxa). 

 Lateral margins of pronotum sinuate ; posterior margins of pro- and 

 metapleura, and the ambulacra smooth, polished, and punctured. 

 Elytra, exteriorly at least, punctured. Anterior and intermediate 

 femora somewhat incrassate. First segment of each tarsus longer than 

 the other two segments together ; third longer than the second. 



Long. $ 7 mm., $ 9 mm. 



Hah. Birara ( Willcy) ; New Guinea ( Walker). 

 Genus Dindymus. 

 Dindymus, St&l, 1861, O. V. A. F., p. 196. 



Distributed throughout Oriental, Ethiopian and Austra- 

 lian Regions. 



Dindymus famosus, Distant. 



Dindymus famosus, Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1901, 

 p. 589. 



Hob. Birara {Willcy). 



