Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidaj. 599 



Genus Amphaces. 

 Amphaces, Dall. List Hem. i. pp. 198 & 295 (1851). 



Type, A. ferruginea, Dall. 



Amphaces tibialis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, coarsely transversely wrinkled, more or 

 less punctate, lateral margins in front of eyes distinctly 

 obtusely angulate, a somewhat raised and levigate spot near 

 inner margin of each eye, eyes black ; antennae mutilated in 

 typical specimen, basal joint passing apex of head j prouotum 

 ochraceous, basal half more or less suffused with sanguineous 

 and irregularly wrinkled, coarsely punctate, more finely 

 punctate on anterior and lateral areas, the cicatrices pale 

 ochraceous and levigate ; scutellum reddish testaceous, with 

 two black spots at base in longitudinal series and continued 

 in a narrow subobsolete line to near apex, moderately thickly 

 punctate and irregularly finely wrinkled ; corium brownish 

 ochraceous, thickly rather coarsely punctate, membrane sub- 

 hyaline, passing the abdominal apex, and with a prominent 

 shining black spot at the basal angle near apex of clavus ; 

 body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, tibia? and tarsi more 

 or less piceous ; rostrum with the second joint and apex 

 blackish and just passing the intermediate coxae ; abdominal 

 basal spine slightly passing the posterior coxa?. 



Long. 11 mm. 



Hab. Tasmania ; Franklin [Com. Walker, Brit. Mus.). 



Collected during the cruise of H.M.S. ' Penguin.' 



Allied to A. proxima, Dall., from which it differs by the 

 more angularly dilated lateral margin of the corium, the 

 dark tibiae and tarsi. 



Amphaces elongata, sp. n. 



Elongate ; pale testaceous, thickly punctate ; head some- 

 what finely punctate, the lateral margins concavely sinuate 

 and preceded by a linear series of darker punctures, in front 

 of eyes very obtusely angulate; antennae with the first and 

 second joints brow r nish ochraceous, third black, with its apex 

 pale ochraceous, fourth black, with base and apex pale ochra- 

 ceous, first joint longly passing apex of head, second longest 

 but not twice as long as third, which is shortest, fifth muti- 

 lated in typical specimen ; pronotum coarsely punctate, the 

 lateral margins preceded by black punctures ; scutellum 



