372 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomldse. 



the Pentatominse, led thereunto by carded specimens only. 

 When the wings of many Pentatominae are examined we 

 may expect more inclusions into the Graphosomatinae, which 

 is at present, with many genera, a somewhat difficult problem, 

 if the wing-neuration is to be the dominant factor. 



Dandinus crassus. 



Dandinus crassus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiii. p. 265 (1904). 



Testricoides pulcherrimus, Sellout. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg\ xlix. p. 144 



(1905) ; id. in Wytsm. Gen. Ins. fasc. 30, p. 26, pi. ii. f. 8 (1905). 



Hob. Queensland, Townsville (Dodd, Brit. Mus.), Victoria 

 {fide Schouteden). 



The British Museum possesses a second species from 

 Hermannsburg, Central Australia, of a testaceous coloration, 

 but not in sufficiently good condition for description. 



Dippilana, gen. nov. 



Head almost as long as broad, considerably narrowed 

 anteriorly, but with the apex broad, subtruncate, the lateral 

 lubes passing the central lobe, but not meeting beyond it, 

 their apices broad, obliquely truncate, lateral margins a little 

 reflexed, oblique, very slightly sinuate, basal area distinctly 

 gibbous; ocelli near eyes, well separated from base; eyes 

 moderately large, not extending beyond the anterior pronotal 

 angles ; antennae robust, five-jointed, inserted a little nearer 

 to apex than to eyes, first joint thickened, attenuated at base, 

 moderately curved, about as long as head but extending far 

 beyond it, second joint small, scarcely more than half the 

 length of first, third longest, fourth a little longer than fifth ; 

 pronotum half as long as broad at base, lateral margins 

 oblique, scarcely sinuate, anterior third obscurely crenulate, 

 posterior angle subangulate and subprominent, anterior 

 margin concave, posterior margin truncate before scutellum ; 

 scutellum longer than broad, apical area narrowed and sub- 

 angularly rounded ; corium almost as long as scutellum and 

 pronotum together, costal margin distinctly moderately con- 

 vexly rounded, its apical angle truncate; membrane small, 

 about half the length of corium, veins prominent and longi- 

 tudinal ; rostrum just passing the posterior coxae, first joint 

 reaching base of head, second joint reaching the anterior 

 trochanters, third distinctly longer than fourth ; abdomen 

 benealh distinctly centrally sulcate near base ; legs of 

 moderate length, posterior tarsi with the basal joint about as 

 long as second and third joints together ; odoriferous aperture 

 short, transverse, angulate exteriorly. 



This genus may be placed near Pcecilotoma, Dall. 



