Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidse. 465 



Hah. Nubia, at least on the Red Sea coast. 



Type. Adult male, from Suakim. B.M. no. 4. 8. 2. 25. 

 Presented by Mrs. Anderson. 



I have examined besides this specimen two others (skins 

 and skulls) and three skulls, one of them of a very young 

 animal. 



Remarks. — There is a very good figure of this race in 

 Andersoir's ' Zoology of Egypt/ pi. xxviii., drawn from a 

 live specimen coming from the Suakim plains. Perhaps it 

 has been represented a little darker and redder than it really 

 was, but the scarcity of black on the tail and mane and the 

 feet pale brown, not black, are well shown. Comparing that 

 figure with the one published by Flower in the ' Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society/ 1869, pi. xxxix., the difference 

 between the northern and the southern races can be seen at 

 a glance. Tro teles cristatus septentrionalis (of which there 

 is a good specimen in the British Museum, obtained by 

 Mr. Drake Brockman in Somaliland, 50 miles south of 

 Berbera) has the pale colour and the unicoloured hair of 

 pallidior, but with the black feet and the more blackened 

 mane and tail of typical cristatus. 



LII. — Rhynchotal Notes. — LII. By W. L. Distant. 



Australasian Pentatomidae (continued from p. 386) . 



Neomazium, gen. nov. 



Body somewhat flat, broadened posteriorly ; head about 

 as long as breadth at base between eyes, the lobes subequal 

 in length, apex of the central lobe very slightly prominent, 

 lateral margins in front of eyes strongly and somewhat 

 obliquely sinuate, distinctly reflexed, abruptly and sub- 

 angularly terminating a little before apex ; eyes substylate ; 

 antenniferous tubercles distinctly strongly spined outwardly ; 

 antennas five-jointed, first joint reaching apex of head, 

 second shortest, third longest ; pronotum about twice as 

 broad at base as long, the lateral margins concavely sinuate, 

 finely crenulate, the anterior angles strongly outwardly 

 straightly spinous, the lateral angles more obscurely, 

 shortly and finely spinous, posterior margin before scutellum 

 straightly truncate ; scutellum about as broad at base as 

 long, its apex reaching or very slightly passing the inner 

 apical angle of the corium which is short, its costal 



