4G6 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidse. 



margin convexly rounded, its apical margin truncate, in- 

 wardly reaching the base of the penultimate abdominal 

 segment; membrane absent; rostrum slightly passing the 

 posterior coxae, first joint reaching base of head, second 

 passing the anterior coxae, third not quite reaching the 

 posterior coxae ; sternum centrally sulcate ; abdomen not 

 sulcate ; femora only moderately thickened. 



A genus to be placed Hear Hypogomphus, Spin. = Mazium, 

 Dall. 



Neomazium typicum, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and corium dark castaneous, 

 thickly coarsely punctate, the anterior angles of the pro- 

 notum pale luteous ; antennae dull ochraceous, first joint 

 a little thickened and about reaching the apex of head, 

 second shortest, shorter than first, third longest, fourth and 

 fifth subequal in length ; exposed apical area of abdomen 

 ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate, connexivum paler and 

 less punctate ; head beneath and sternum ochraceous, very 

 thickly, blackly, coarsely punctate ; abdomen beneath ochra- 

 ceous, very finely darkly punctate, the lateral margins pale 

 and almost impunctate ; coxae and legs ochraceous, the 

 latter very finely mottled or spotted with castaneous. 



Structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 1\ to 8| mm. 



Hab. Queensland ; Peak Downs. 



V Genus Sciocoris. 

 Sciocoris, Fall. Hem. Suec. p. 20 (1829). 



Type, S. cursitans, ¥ahr,, = terreus ) Schrank. 



Sciocoris troughtoni, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous, probably uniformly of that colour in 

 fresh specimens, but more or less clouded in the two speci- 

 mens now before me ; head about as long as breadth at base 

 between the eyes, somewhat truncately rounded in front, 

 eyes of moderate size, somewhat prominently projecting, but 

 not quite reaching the anterior angles of the pronotum, 

 central lobe prominent, slightly raised ; antennas pale ochra- 

 ceous, fourth joint, excluding base, and the whole of fifth 

 joint fuscous, first joint not reaching apex of head, second 

 and third joints almost subequal in length, fourth and fifth 

 longest and also subequal ; pronotum about twice as broad 

 at base as median length, the lateral marginal areas sub- 



