480 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidse. 



Sepontia parva, sp. n. 



Head black with, an ochraceous levigate spot near anterior 

 margin of each eye ; antennse stramineous, with the apical 

 joint moderately infuscate ; pronotum ochraceous, thickly 

 darkly punctate, the anterior area black with two small 

 central levigate ochraceous spots, and posteriorly containing 

 two transverse pale punctate spots, the anterior and lateral 

 margins narrowly ochraceous, the latter with a small sub- 

 marginal spot near their middle ; scutellum ochraceous, 

 darkly punctate and with irregular dark mottlings ; body 

 beneath black ; lateral margins of prosternum and small 

 marginal spots stramineous ; legs testaceous ; sternum 

 coarsely punctate, abdomen finely, very thickly punctate. 



Long. 3 mm. 



Hab. Queensland ; Mackay (R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the Oriental and Malayan S. variolosa, Walk., 

 from which it differs by its narrower pronotum. In S. vario- 

 losa the breadth of the pronotum at base between the 

 humeral angles is equal to the whole length of the body; in 

 S. parva it is distinctly shorter. 



Neostollta, gen. nov. 

 Stollia, sect, a, StSl, En. Hem. v. p. 81 (1876). 



Intermediate between Sepontia and Eusarcocoris. It 

 agrees with Sepontia in the large scutellum extending to 

 the apex of the abdomen, and the deflected head, but differs 

 by the character given by Stal, " frenis vix plus quam 

 quintain partem laterum scutelli occupantibus," a character 

 which also separates it from Eusarcocoris, as also does the 

 larger scutellum. < ^^ 



Type, N. fasciolata, Stal. ,. — ""^ ■y^'/^t 



Stal enumerated his fasciolata as forming a section of 

 Eusarcocoris = Stollia ; it, however, seems to have stronger 

 affinities with Sepontia and a generic division becomes 

 almost a necessity. 



Neostollta fasciolata. 



Stollia fasciolata, Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 81 (1876). 

 Hub. Australia. 



Neo stollia bellula, sp. n. 



Head longer than broad at base, strongly declivous, 

 black, thickly coarsely punctate, lateral margins distinctly 



