474 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidge. 



than fourth or fifth, which are also suhequal : pronotum 

 twice as broad at base as medially long, thickly coarsely 

 punctate, the lateral areas anteriorly ampliate, the anterior 

 angles roundly acutely produced, their apices somewhat 

 longly passing the anterior margins of the eyes, extreme 

 margins not dentate, on anterior disk an obscure transverse 

 pale almost impunctate line containing four small blackish 

 punctate spots, posterior angles subprominent, sinuate and 

 subangulate; scutellum somewhat sparsely darkly punctate, 

 a black foveate spot at each basal angle ; corium thickly and 

 rather more finely punctate; membrane greyish ; connexivum 

 ochraceous, the posterior segmental angles only obscurely 

 angulate; body beneath ochraceous, more or less thickly 

 darkly punctate ; a spot at base of head beneath, a curved 

 submarginal line on each segment of the sternum, a central 

 spot to mesonotum, a sublateral fascia to anterior half 

 and a medial segmental series of spots to abdomen, black ; 

 legs ochraceous, spotted with castaneous ; rostrum reaching 

 posterior coxae, its apex black. 



Long. 11 mm. 



Hab. W. Australia; Nicol Bay Distr. (Dr. Clement, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



A broad ovate species also allied to C. fasciatus, Dist., by 

 the largely produced anterior pronotal angles, but differing 

 by the non-crenulate pronotal margins, the broader and 

 more laterally sinuate head, the less produced segmental 

 angles of the connexivum, &c. 



Cephaloplatys minor, sp. n. 



Castaneous brown, rugulose and punctate; anterior margin 

 of head, lateral margins and anterior angles of pronotum, 

 and basal areas of lateral margins to corium ochraceous with 

 brown punctures ; scutellum with a levigate ochraceous 

 spot in each basal angle; membrane greyish ; connexivum 

 ochraceous with black spots ; body beneath black, coxae and 

 legs ochraceous, coxae punctured with brownish ; head 

 thickly punctate, the anterior and lateral marginal areas 

 somewhat broadly ampliately reflexed, lateral lobes mode- 

 rately but distinctly longer than the central, their apices 

 broad and rounded, lateral margins sinuate, prominent but 

 not spinous before eyes ; antennas with the first and second 

 joints stramineous, third, fourth, and fifth piceous, apex of 

 third, base and apex of fourth, and base of fifth ochraceous, 

 basal joint thickened and not reaching apex of head, first 

 and second shortest and subequal in length, third, fourth, 



