On neio Oriental Peiitatomoidea. 481 



partially concealed about base, in front of antenna T^•ltl^ 

 subconfluent punctures. Frothorox not much longer than 

 wide sides slightly rounded from base to apical third, and 

 then decreasing to apex, which is about two-thirds the width 

 ot base; with dense concealed punctures. Elytra about 

 one-third wider than prothorax, and not thrice as long 

 about one-third longer than wide; striate-punctate, bSt 

 punctures normally concealed ; interstices gently convex 

 with numerous concealed punctrres. ' ' 



Length (excluding rostrum) 4 mm. 



Hah. New South Wales: Illawarra. 



On the head and basal half of rostrum the scales are 

 mostly ochn^ous, with a few paler spots. On the prothorax 

 they are mo.tly ochreous brown or sooty, with a pale obliaue 

 stripe on each side, and a less distinct one along the middle 

 On the scutellum they are white. On the elytra they are 

 mostly of a dingy brown, but on the apical fJurth they are 

 ot a rather pale ochreous, bounded anteriorly by a curved 

 sooty hue, across the middle there are some whitish spots 

 accentuating some sooty ones, and on the shoulders and 

 near the scute lum there are also some whitish and sooty 

 spots. The whitish spots from some directions appear like 

 feeble fascicles On the under surface the scales Le almost 

 white, and on ti.e legs they are mostly stramineous. The 

 type IS probably a male. 



^L. — Neio Oiiental Pentatomoidea. 

 '^)' E. I^ERGKOTH, (J.M.Z.S. 



Fan). Scutelleridas. 



Coleoiichus ornamentifer, sp. n. 



Rather broadly obovate, shining. Head a little less than 

 halt tlie length of pronotum, not quite one-half broader than 

 long, almost impunctate, laterally a little sinuated somewhat 

 be ore the eyes, clypeus slightly passing apex of juga, a 

 little constncted in the middle, posteriorly reaching slightly 

 beyond the_ level of the middle of the eyes ; ocelli a little 

 oyer three times more apart from each other than from eyes 

 placed immediately behind the level of the posterior maiPins 

 of he eyes; interior margin of buccuJ^ slightly sinualed, 

 hrst and second joints of antenna equal m length, third onel 

 halt longer than second, fourth somewhat shorter than second 



