370 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatdmidae. 



a marginal segmental series of small ochraceous spots ; 

 femora black, their extreme apices and the tibiae and tarsi 

 ochraceous, bases of tibiae and apices of tarsi blackish ; other 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 3^ mm. 



Hab. Queensland ; Townsville. 



Ippatha, gen. nov. 



Body ovate, moderately convex ; head large, broader than 

 long, as long or almost as long as the pronotum, the lateral 

 margins obliquely convex, a little ampliately reflcxed, the 

 lateral lobes a little longer than the central lobe and almost 

 meeting beyond it ; eyes prominent, a little upwardly and 

 backwardly directed, at base between the eyes moderately 

 convexly tumid; antennae inserted about midway between 

 lateral margins and rostrum and considerably before eyes, 

 five-jointed, basal joint not reaching apex of head, second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth joints almost subequal in length ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxae, bucculae almost reaching 

 base of head ; pronotum twice as broad as long, anterior 

 margin straightly truncate, lateral margins straightly oblique 

 and moderately ampliately recurved, posterior margin nearly 

 straight, the disk anteriorly deflected ; scutelhim almost 

 reaching the abdominal apex, considerably longer than broad, 

 lateral margins nearly straight, apex rounded, marginal area 

 of corium exposed outside two-thirds the length of scutellum ; 

 connexivum exposed at about one- third from base to apex; 

 orifices small, not continued in a longitudinal sillon ; femora 

 moderately thickened, the anterior femora a little curved ; 

 tarsi three-jointed, posterior tarsi with the basal joint about 

 as long as second and third together. Wings with the veins 

 " primaria et subtensa," subparallel; hamus absent. 



A genus of Graphosomatinae, with no immediate ally ; the 

 large rounded head is a very distinctive character. 



Type, /. australiensis, Dist. 



Lppatha australiensis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, fasciated with black ; head above (excluding 

 lateral areas), pronotum with a transverse fascia before 

 middle on each side continued backward to base near 

 posterior angles, scutellum with two central longitudinal 

 fasciae which are moderately narrowed at apices, a longi- 

 tudinal fascia on each side of exposed corium adjoining 

 scutellum and which is more narrowly continued on inner 

 margin of connexivum, head beneath with a longitudinal 



