602 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomida3. 



Hiarchas crassicornis. 



Stauralia crassicornis, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p, 377 (1867). 

 Hab. Adelaide. 



Hiarchas terminalis. 



Stauralia terminalis, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 378 (1867). 

 Hab. Melbourne. 



Genus Stauralia. 

 Stauralia, Dall. List Hem. i. pp. 197 & 294 (1851). 



Type, S. chloracantha, Dall. 



Stauralia littleri, sp. n. 



Body above testaceous red, margins of central lobe and 

 basal area of head, two large transverse spots on anterior 

 area of pronotum, body beneath, and legs ochraceous ; mem- 

 brane hyaline, distinctly passing abdominal apex ; head with 

 the lateral margins distinctly reflexed and inwardly blackish, 

 laterally transversely striate ; antennae testaceous, about 

 apical half of fourth and the whole of fifth joint infuscate, 

 first joint distinctly passing apex of head, second longer than 

 third, fourth and fifth subequal in length ; pronotum (ex- 

 cluding the ochraceous spots) thickly coarsely punctate and 

 more or less wrinkled, the lateral margins oblique and 

 distinctly reflexed, the lateral angles rounded ; scutellum 

 triangular, nearly equilateral, apex finely pointed and black, 

 thickly punctate and slightly wrinkled ; corium thickly 

 coarsely punctate ; membrane hyaline and distinctly passing 

 abdominal apex ; ventral spine long, virescent and passing 

 the anterior coxae ; rostrum virescent, reaching the posterior 

 coxae, its apex black, first joint not quite reaching base of 

 head, second about reaching anterior coxae, third not quite 

 reaching intermediate coxae ; abdomen beneath with a 

 central longitudinal ridge ; tarsi two-jointed, posterior tarsi 

 with the joints almost subequal in length. 



Long. 8-10 mm. 



Hab. Tasmania; Launceston (Littler). 



■ Genus Sastragala. 

 Sastragala, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 155 (1843). 



Type, S. uniyuttata } Don. 



