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



Eumecopus moseleyi, sp. n. 



Reddish brown, blackly punctate; head, anterior and 

 lateral areas of pronotum, subapical area of scutellum, and 

 base of lateral margin to corium blackish or blackly punctate ; 

 head with a central longitudinal line, a short longitudinal line 

 on each side of it at basal area, margins of central lobe, ex- 

 treme lateral margins, basal margins of eyes, and a basal spot 

 beneath them ochraceous, lateral margins strongly concavely 

 sinuate and distinctly reflexed ; antennas with the first joint 

 black, second reddish, third black, with its basal third reddish, 

 second joint distinctly shorter than third, first longly passing 

 apex of head, moderately thickened and slightly curved 

 (remaining joints mutilated in type) ; pronotum thickly 

 blackly punctate, the black anterior area with a few pale 

 speckles, lateral margins only moderately sinuate but dis- 

 tinctly reflexed, extreme lateral and basal edges ochraceous, 

 posterior angles moderately prominent and shortly spinous ; 

 scutellum with a spot near each basal angle and the apex 

 ochraceous ; corium thickly punctate, extreme lateral margin 

 ochraceous ; membrane blackish ; abdomen above and con- 

 nexivum black, extreme edge of the latter ochraceous ; body 

 beneath ochraceous, blackly speckled or punctate, extreme 

 margins of head, prosternum, and abdomen pale ochraceous, 

 inwardly margined by a black sublateral fascia ; a curved 

 line on each side of prosternum, two central elongate spots 

 to mesosternum, and basal segmental margins (narrowly) 

 black, apical segmental margins (narrowly) ochraceous ; legs 

 reddish ochraceous, apical areas of femora blackish ; rostrum 

 passing the posterior coxae, its apex black. 



Long. 19 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. \\\ mm. 



Hab. Queensland* {' Challenger ' Exp., Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to E. apicalis, Westw., but with the lateral margins 

 of the pronotum more strongly sinuate, body broader, diffe- 

 rent colour of abdomen beneath, &c. 



Genus Poscilometis. 

 Pcecilometis, Dall. List Hem. i. pp. 151 & 170 (1851). 

 Type, P. strigatus, Westw. 



Pcecilometis borealis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly darkly brownly punctate ; head with 



* This species was probably taken during the ' Challenger's ' visit to 

 Cape York. 



