Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomiclse. 4G9 



Adelaidena regina, sp. n. 



Above greyish ochraceous, mottled with black ; head 

 sparingly coarsely brownly punctate, a distinct impunctate 

 spot a little before each eye, a few black punctures at middle 

 of apical margin j antennae with the first, second, and third 

 joints ochraceous with a few brown punctures, fourth and 

 fifth black with their bases ochraceous, second and third 

 almost subequal in length, fourth and fifth distinctly in- 

 ci'assated excluding base and subequal in length; pronotum 

 sparingly rather coarsely brownly punctate, the cicatrices 

 bordered with black, and a transverse series of black punc- 

 tures about one-third from base continued in six longitudinal 

 series to base, in the basal area there are also six levigate 

 ochraceous lines ; scutellum sparingly coarsely punctate 

 some of the punctures being black, a black spot at each basal 

 angle and a small black spot on each side a little before 

 apex ; corium and connexivum sparingly coarsely brownly 

 punctate, the latter with the incisures margined on each 

 side with black, membrane greyish with the veins brownish • 

 body beneath and legs very pale ochraceous, abdomen casta- 

 neously punctate on each lateral area ; femora blackly 

 punctate near apices, tibiae blackly punctate on central area 

 posterior legs mutilated in type ; structural characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Long. 6 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 4 mm. 



Hab. N.W. Australia; Adelaide Kiver {Com. Walker 

 Brit. M us.). 



Collected during the voyage of H.M.S. c Penguin/ 



Genus Menestheus. 

 Menestheus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1867, p. 504. 



Type, M. nercivus, Dall. 



In StaPs description of the genus he gives the head as 

 much longer than the pronotum ; this is quite correct as in 

 M. cuneatus, Dist., but not so with regard to the type 

 M. nercivus, Dall., in which the head and pronotum are 

 equal or subequal in length, as they are also in the species 

 now described. 



Menestheus doddi, sp. n. 



Dull ochraceous, punctured with brownish ; head about as 

 long as pronotum, narrowing to apex, the lateral lobes con- 

 siderably longer than the central, meeting beyond it with 

 their apices distinctly separated, the central lobe is blackly 



