Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomulaj. 371 



median fascia, a submarginal longitudinal fascia extending 

 from behind eyes to apex of abdomen, a central longitudinal 

 fascia to sternum and abdomen, coxae, femora excluding 

 apices and rostrum, black ; antennae testaceous, second and 

 third joints subequal in length, fourth and fifth also subequal 

 but a little longer and thicker than the two preceding joints ; 

 above and beneath distinctly, coarsely, somewhat sparsely 

 punctate, some levigate macular areas at base of scutellum ; 

 tibiae finely setose; other structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Long. 9^ mm. 



Hab. North Australia ; Alexandria (IV. Stalker, Brit. 

 Mus.), Centr. Australia; Hermannsburg (//. J. H'dlier, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Ippatha ornata, sp. n. 



Head above black, thickly punctate, the lateral and apical 

 margins narrowly ochraceous ; eyes piceous ; pronotutn pale 

 ochraceous, darkly punctate, the anterior margin palely levi- 

 gate, behiud which is a transverse black fascia laterally and 

 posteriorly palely levigately margined, the lateral marginal 

 areas are distinctly laminately reflexed and behind eyes im- 

 punctate; scutellum black, thickly coarsely punctate, with 

 three longitudinal pale ochraceous fasciae, one central, the 

 others lateral, the central levigate, the lateral sparsely 

 irregularly punctate; the exposed corium pale ochraceous, 

 darkly punctate ; body beneath black, more or less thickly 

 finely punctate ; lateral margins of sternum and abdomen, a 

 sublateral fascia on each side of abdomen, acetabula and the 

 coxae very pale ochraceous, levigate, excepting the acetabula 

 which are darkly punctate ; legs testaceous, femora more 

 darkly macularly punctate; rostrum testaceous, its apex 

 piceous and reaching the posterior coxae ; antennae testaceous, 

 second joint longer than third, fourth and fifth longest and 

 subequal in length. 



Long. 5^ mm. 



Hab. Queensland ; Peak Downs. 



Genus Dandinus. 



Dandinus, Dist. Anu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiii. p. 2G4 (1904). 

 7'estricoides, Schout. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg - . xlix. p. 144 (1905) ; id. in 

 Wytsin. Gen. Ins. fasc. 30, p. 26 (1905). 



Dr. Schouteden, to whom we are indebted for an excellent 

 revision of the Graphosomatinae, placed his genus in that 

 subfamily of the Pentatomidae; I had previously placed it in 



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