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



Genus Pegala. 

 Pegala, StSl. OU. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1867, p. 522. 



Type, P. biguttula, Hagl. 



Pegala fiyulina, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale shining olivaceous 

 green, with more or less ochraceous mottling ; corium 

 brownish ochraceous, with piceous punctures : membrane 

 pale brownish, subhyaline, reflecting the dark abdomen 

 beneath ; body beneath pale testaceous, with darker and 

 paler mottlings, the most prominent of the paler ones 

 forming an indistinct and irregular submarginal abdominal 

 fascia, the lateral abdominal margins olivaceous, lateral 

 marginal areas of the prosternnm broadly pale virescent, the 

 lateral prosternal angles reddish testaceous ; legs testaceous, 

 the femora more or less prominently spotted with black ; 

 head finely transversely wrinkled, the central lobe ante- 

 riorly dull ochraceous, margined with piceous ; antennae 

 ochraceous, first joint not quite reaching apex of head, 

 second distinctly longer than first, a little shorter than either 

 third, fourth, or fifth, which are subequal in length ; pro- 

 notum with a few scattered coarse punctures, the lateral 

 angles subprominent ; scutellum sparsely coarsely punctate, 

 more closely punctate on lateral areas ; corium thickly 

 coarsely punctate ; sternal process reaching base of head ; 

 rostrum not quite reaching posterior coxse ; apical abdominal 

 spines prominent. 



Long. 12-13 mm. 



Hub. North Queensland (Kelsall, Brit. Mus.). 



Koogobatha, gen. nov. 



Body broadly subovate ; head about as long as broad at 

 base including eyes, lobes of equal length, the apex broad 

 and roundly truncate, lateral margins oblique and sinuate, 

 eyes large and prominent, not extending beyond the anterior 

 angles of the pronotum and distinctly separated from them 

 posteriorly, ocelli in a line with the middle of the eyes and 

 much nearer to them than to each other ; antennse five- 

 jointed, first joint almost but not quite reaching apex of 

 head, second and third joints longer and subequal in length, 

 each shorter than fourth or fifth, which are also subequal ; 

 pronotum twice as broad between lateral angles as medially 

 long, lateral margins oblique and moderately reflexed, ante- 



