170 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidae. 



punctate on each side and the lateral lobes outwardly mar- 

 ginally darkly punctate (excluding bases and apices), an 

 i m punctate spot before each eye ; antennae ochraceous, 

 fourth and fifth joints fuscous, basal joint short, stout, about 

 reaching middle of lateral margins, first, second, and third 

 Joints subcqual in length, fourth and fifth much the longest, 

 subequal in length and distinctly pilose ; pronotum thickly 

 brownly punctate, the lateral margins pale, an obscure trans- 

 verse impression a little before middle, and a central longi- 

 tudinal brownish line, the anterior angles somewhat acutely 

 prominent outside the eyes ; scutellum thickly brownly 

 coarsely punctate, a black fovcate spot near each basal angle, 

 from the neighbourhood of which are two pale levigate lines 

 converging near middle and then contiguously longitudinally 

 continued to apex ; eoriuin thickly finely brownly punctate, 

 base of lateral margin narrowly ochraceous ; membrane 

 greyish, the veins much darker ; connexivum dull ochraceous, 

 spotted with piceous ; body beneath and legs (imperfectly 

 seen in carded specimen) dull ochraceous, a sublateral pale 

 fascia on each side of sternum, the lateral areas darker, a 

 small black spot on each side of pro-, ineso-, and meta- 

 sterna. 



Long. 5h mm. 



IJab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



A very small but distinct species of the genus. 



Genus Eribotes. 

 Eribotes, StSl, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1867, p. 504. 

 Type, E. australis, Dall. 



Eribotes leana, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, fasciately marked with blackish ; head about 

 as long as pronotum, central lobe subequal in length to the 

 lateral lobes, but a little prominent at apex, coarsely punctate, 

 margins of central lobe and outer margins of lateral lobes 

 (excluding bases and apices) blackly punctate, an impunctate 

 spot before each eye ; antennae with the first, second, and 

 third joints ochraieous, fourth black, first short and stout, 

 second and third subequal, each much shorter than fourth, 

 fifth mutilated in the two specimens examined; pronotum 

 coarsely punctate, with four longitudinal somewhat oblique 

 fasciate series of blaek punctures, lateral margins moderately 

 an ipliately rounded and slightly refiexed ; scutellum a little 

 longer than the corium, sparsely coarsely punctate, an oblique 

 black line at each basal angle and a central black spot at 



