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their apices distinctly curved backward ; scutellum some- 

 what thickly punctate, more coarsely so on basal area ; 

 coriurn thickly coarsely punctate ; prosternum thickly punc- 

 tate ; other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 1(H mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 8 mm. 



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



Genus Vitellus. 

 Vitellus, Still, Auu. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) v. p. 170 (18G7). 



Type, V. insularis, Stal. 



Vitellus bovillus, sp. n. 



Olivaceous green ; head, anterior marginal area of pro- 

 notum, body beneath, and legs much paler, either pale 

 ochraceous or pale virescent ; antennas with the first and 

 second joints ochraceous, third, fourth, and fifth infuscate, 

 first not nearly reaching apex of head, second longer than 

 first, shorter than third; third, fourth, and fifth almost sub- 

 equal in length ; head distinctly transversely wrinkled j 

 pronotum somewhat regularly puuctate about two-thirds 

 from base, the anterior third im punctate, with a transverse 

 series of punctures behind the anterior margin but not 

 extending to the anterior angles, lateral angles long and 

 moderately recurved, about as long as breadth of scutellum 

 at base, black above and red beneath ; scutellum sparsely 

 irregularly punctate, more thickly so on apical area ; corium 

 coarsely punctate, red at basal angle; membrane shining 

 brown ; rostrum just passing the posterior coxae, its apex 

 black ; a black spot before the odoriferous apertures ; apical 

 abdominal spines black, beneath red at base. 



Long. 13-14 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 12-13 mm. 



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



By the general shape and structure of the lateral pronotal 

 angles this species is allied to the Celebesian V. strenuus, 

 Walk., but in the latter the rostrum reaches the third abdo- 

 minal segment ; from the description of Walker it also 

 seems to be allied to his V. rufolinea. 



Vitellus taurus, sp. n. 



Bright olivaceous green ; lateral pronotal angles piceous, 

 their apices testaceous red ; base of apical margin and a few 

 small spots at base of corium ochraceous ; apical abdominal 

 spines reddish ochraceous, their inner margins narrowly 

 black ; body beneath and legs pale virescent, inclining to 



