Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidse. 373 



Dippilana membranacea, sp. n. 



Head above ochraceous, with four longitudinal series of 

 brownish punctures; eyes black; antenna? dull deep ochra- 

 ceous, very shortly finely pilose; pronotum ochraceous, thickly 

 coarsely punctate, the punctures a little less dense on central 

 disk, where there is a central longitudinal impunctate fascia 

 and a narrower oblique impunctate fascia before each lateral 

 margin, the region of the cicatrices also transversely ochra- 

 ceous, impunctate ; scutellum coarsely brownly punctate, a 

 central fascia not reaching apex, a spot at each basal angle, 

 the lateral margins (narrowly) and the apex (broadly) 

 ochraceous, impunctate ; corium coarsely brownly punctate ; 

 membrane pale brownish with the veins very broadly black ; 

 body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; coxse, presternum, 

 and metasteruum punctate; mesosternum with a longitudinal 

 sublateral cluster of black punctures on each side ; legs 

 closely finely speckled with testaceous, pilose beneath. 



Long. 14^ mm. ; exp. pronot. augi. 8 mm. 



Hub. S. Centr. Australia ; Killalpanima, 100 miles E. of 

 L. Eyre (//. J. Hillier, Brit. Mus.). 



Muritha, gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Alcaus, Dall., but differing principally 

 by the antennas, in which the second joint is not about half 

 the length of the first, but nearly twice as long and flattened 

 and roundly ampliate at base, third joint shorter than second, 

 remaining joints or joint mutilated in type. 



Type, M. hermannsburgi, Dist. 



Muritha hermannsburgi, sp. n. 



Body above very pale testaceous, more or less thickly 

 punctured and mottled with black ; head about as long as 

 pronotum, elongate, gradually narrowing at apical area, the 

 lateral lobes passing the central lobe, but not meeting beyond 

 it, and forming two acute spines at the apex of the head ; 

 lateral margins sinuate, somewhat sparsely darkly punctate, 

 the central basal area of the middle lobe impunctate ; 

 antenna? with the basal joint gradually thickened towards 

 apex aud slightly curved, a little shorter than the head but 

 extending far beyond its apex, pale testaceous punctured 

 with black, second joint about twice as long as first, mode- 

 rately flattened and roundly ampliate for nearly its basal third, 

 black, with a broad testaceous blackly punctate annulation 

 before middle, third joint about one-third shorter than 



