378 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatoniidae. 



irrorate with ochraceous, the lateral and apical margins and 

 the inner margin of the costal area ochraceous ; membrane 

 blackish ; connexivum purplish brown, punctate, its outer 

 margin ochraceous ; body beneath ochraceous, with a large 

 apical black spot occupying nearly all the sixth and anal 

 segments j legs purplish, streaked with ochraceous ; rostrum 

 reaching the base of the second abdominal segment. 



Long. 21 to 23 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 1(H to 11 mm. 



Bab. N. Australia; Alexandria (W. Stalker, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to E. abdominalis, Dist., but differing by the second 

 joint of antennae subequal in length to third joint, not half 

 i's length as in abdominalis , more produced pronotal spines, 

 distinct colour of abdomen beneath, &c. 



Eumecopus eyrei, sp. n. 



Above ochraceous, thickly punctured and mottled with 

 black ; head with six longitudinal black fasciae, two central 

 and two on each lateral area, extreme lateral margins between 

 antennae and eyes also black, the black fasciae prominently 

 punctate ; antennae black or fuscous, bases of third and fourth 

 joints ochraceous, basal joint shorter than head but projecting 

 beyond it, second joint minute, about one-third the length 

 of first, third longest, one-third longer than fourth (re- 

 mainder mutilated in type) ; pronotum with two small but 

 distinct pale spots on disk of anterior area, the lateral angles 

 produced into somewhat long slender distinct spines, the 

 apices of which are very slightly recurved, lateral margins 

 concavely sinuate, their apices obscurely crenulate; scutel- 

 lum much suffused with blackish, especially on basal third 

 and before apex, somewhat rugulose on basal area, three 

 small spots on basal margin — one central and one near each 

 basal angle — and the apex ochraceous, levigate ; corium less 

 blackly punctate except on inner posterior area, where there 

 is a distinct pale levigate spot, membrane black, distinctly 

 passing abdominal apex ; body beneath pale ochraceous ; 

 sternum somewhat thickly darkly punctate, two black spots 

 near anterior acetabula and a larger black spot near inter- 

 mediate acetabula ; abdomen widely thickly brownly punc- 

 tate between the spiracles and the central disk, the latter 

 only very sparsely brownly punctate, the spiracles forming 

 the centre of somewhat large shining black spots, the lateral 

 margins at apices of segmental margins spotted with black, 

 and a large central subapical black spot on disk ; legs ochra- 

 ceous, spotted and streaked with castaneous, apical areas of 

 tibiae castaneous ; rostrum passing the posterior coxae, its 



