Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidce. 477 



anterior angles roundly subprominent ; scutellum about as 

 long as broad at base, somewhat gibbous on basal area, 

 posteriorly attenuated, the apex rounded and slightly passing 

 the interior angles of the corium ; membrane slightly 

 passing the abdominal apex ; rostrum moderately passing 

 the posterior coxae, first joint reaching base of head, second 

 almost reaching the intermediate coxae, third extending to 

 the posterior coxae ; abdomen convex beneath. 

 1 place this genus near Arniscus, Dist. 



Kalkadoona centromaculata, sp. n. 



Ochraceous ; head with the basal area punctate, the 

 lateral lobes finely wrinkled ; antennae with the first, second, 

 and third joints pale ochraceous, apex of third and the 

 whole of the fourth and fifth joints testaceous ; pronotum 

 distinctly punctate and more or less rugulose, between the 

 humeral angles a trausverse series of four, sometimes in- 

 distinct, fuscous spots; scutellum finely wrinkled and 

 distinctly punctate, its apical margin narrowly testaceous ; 

 corium thickly finely punctate; membrane greyish; con- 

 nexivum with the posterior angles of the segments moderately 

 prominent ; sternum coarsely punctate ; abdomen beneath 

 finely, indistinctly punctate ; legs more or less finely spotted 

 with fuscous ; abdomen above black, thickly finely punctate, 

 the last two segments and the connexivum pale ochraceous, 

 more or less blackly punctate ; structural characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Long. 7\ mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5 mm. 



Hab. Centr. Australia; Hermannsburg (H. J. Hillier, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Hillieria, gen. nov. 



Body elongate ; head longer than pronotum, about as 

 long as scutellum, longly acuminate, the lateral lobes about 

 twice as long as the central and meeting beyond it; ocelli 

 at base, nearer eyes than to each other ; antennae five- 

 jointed, inserted beneath and a little before eyes, first joint 

 stout, short, equal in length to third, each a little shorter 

 than second, third and fourth longest, subequal in length, 

 third not reaching apex of head ; pronotum about twice as 

 broad at base as medial length, moderately depressed on its 

 anterior half, lateral margins concavely sinuate, the anterior 

 angles somewhat longly anteriorly spinous ; anterior margin 

 strongly concave for the reception of the head, posterior 

 margin truncate before scutellum, the posterior angles 



