COO Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomida?. 



coarsely punctate, with a central, raised, longitudinal, levi- 

 gate line, not reaching base, a small pale levigate spot at 

 each basal angle j corium thickly coarsely punctate, more 

 sparingly so on inner area ; membrane pale brownish ochra- 

 ceous, subhyaline, not passing the abdominal apex; con- 

 nexivum black, the last two segments purplish red, the 

 lateral and basal margins of all the segments pale ochra- 

 ceous ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; rostrum reaching 

 the posterior coxse, its apex black ; abdominal basal spine 

 distinctly passing the posterior coxae. 



Long. 11^ mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5| mm. 



Hab. Tasmania ; Launceston (F. M. Littler) . 



An elongate species, with the lateral margins of the 

 corium not dilated. 



Mochus, gen. nov. 



Head with the central lobe a little longer than the lateral 

 lobes, the lateral margins strongly rerlexed and sinuate, 

 ocelli a little nearer eyes than to each other ; antennae five- 

 jointed, tlie first joint long, longly passing apex of head, 

 about as long as the pronotum, moderately curved, first and 

 second joints subequal in length, third shorter than second, 

 longer than fourth, apical joint moderately thickened, sub- 

 equal to fourth; pronotum slightly more than twice broader 

 between the lateral angles than medial length, the lateral 

 areas broadly and laminately expanded and a little directed 

 upwardly, their margins straightly oblique, the lateral 

 angles strongly produced and broadly acute, anterior margin 

 truncate, anterior angles slightly prominent ; posterior mar- 

 gin moderately concave ; scutellum about as long as broad 

 at base, subtriangular, the apex narrowed, not extending 

 beyond the base of the membrane ; corium about as long as 

 head and pronotum together, the apex angularly rounded ; 

 membrane passing abdominal apex ; rostrum reaching tlie 

 base of the ventral spine, first joint extending beyond the 

 base of head, second reaching the intermediate coxae, third 

 and fourth almost subequal in length ; prosternum broadly 

 suicate, the sulcation margined on each side with a carinate 

 elevation ; abdominal ventral spine extending before the 

 anterior coxae ; abdomen beneath centrally longitudinally 

 ridged; femora moderately thickened; tarsi two-jointed, 

 joints almost subequal in length. 



Allied to Duadictis, but lateral margins of the pronotum 

 not crenulate and obliquely straight, not strongly sinuate ; 

 antenna longer and proportional lengths of joints different; 

 first joint of rostrum passing base of head, &c. 



