Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidie. 381 



the lateral margins (more broadly posteriorly) pale, impunc- 

 tate ; antennas reddish testaceous, apical joint (excluding 

 base) more or less fuscous, basal joint stoutest, slightly 

 curved, shorter than head but projecting beyond it, second 

 joint subequal in length to first and third, fourth a little 

 longest, distinctly longer than fifth ; pronotum with the 

 anterior margin narrowly and the lateral margins more 

 broadly pale ochraceous, the latter moderately concavely 

 sinuate, the posterior angles subprominent ; scutellum very 

 narrowly and irregularly margined with pale ochraceous at 

 base, a spot near each basal angle and the apes pale ochra- 

 ceous; corium with the veins and narrow external margin 

 pale ochraceous, the lateral margins distinctly rounded ; 

 membrane black, with paler longitudinal streaks; abdomen 

 above reddish ochraceous, apical area fuscous, connexivum 

 ochraceous and excluding its extreme margin thickly brownly 

 punctate ; body beneath stramineous, sternum (excluding 

 central disk and lateral margins) and abdomen (excluding 

 extreme lateral margins) thickly finely darkly punctate, sub- 

 lateral margins of head between antennas and eyes, and apical 

 half of sublateral margins to prosternum, black ; legs ochra- 

 ceous, finely darkly punctate ; rostrum reaching the fourth 

 abdominal segment, its apical joint piceous ; central abdo- 

 minal sulcation profound and reaching the base of the last 

 abdominal segment. 



Long. 16 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 7^ mm. 



Hab. N. Australia; Alexandria [W. Stalker, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to P. stigmatus, Van Duz., by the rufescent an- 

 tennas, but differing in the second joint of the antennae 

 being subequal in length to first, not more than twice its 

 length, nor " brevissirno" as in P. fasciatus, Stal. 



Bathrus. 



Bathrus, Dall. List Hem. i. pp. 151 & 169. 



Type, B. variegatus, Dall. 



This genus requires amplification in its generic characters 

 so far as the neuration of the membrane is concerned. 

 Dallas, in his " Table of Genera," distinguished Bathrus by 

 having " membrane with three nervures," but in fully de- 

 scribing the genus subsequently he wrote " membrane with an 

 oblong basal cell and four longitudinal nervures, of which 

 the two outer are furcate." In the species 1 now describe, 

 none of the nervures are furcate. 



