4fK) Mr. W. L. Distant on the 



bifurcate towards base; corium, excluding lateral marginal 

 area, more or less thickly punctate ; membrane not passing 

 abdominal apex ; rostrum reaching or slightly passing 

 anterior coxae. 



Long. 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Queensland; Kuranda (June-July, K. E. Turner; 

 April, F. P. Dodd). Adelaide River (J. J. Walker). Tenim- 

 ber Island {JV. Dokerty). 



Pamera v'mcta, Say. 



This very widely distributed species has now been received 

 from Queensland (Townsville), where it was taken by 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Austropameha, gen. nov. 



Headlong, anteocular portion about as long as postocular, 

 but the anteocular portion acuininately apically produced ; 

 eyes moderately prominent ; ocelli situate a little behind a 

 line betw r een the posterior margins of the eyes ; antennae 

 inserted a little in front of eyes, first joint about as long- 

 as head, second longest; pronotum with a narrow anterior 

 collar about as long as broad at ba<e, strongly laterally 

 sinuate, the anterior lobe subglobose and shorter than the 

 posterior lobe ; ro-trum slightly passing the anterior coxae, 

 first joint not reaching base of head ; scutellum about as 

 broad at base as long, obliquely transversely ridged; corium 

 elongate : membrane reaching abdominal apex ; anterior 

 femora strongly incrassated ; body beneath with the apical 

 lateral angle of: the posterior abdominal segment moderately 

 acute. 



Allied to the Or'ental genus Pamerana, Dist., from which 

 it differs by the non-spinuous antenniferous tubercles, the 

 much longer postocular area of the head, &c. 



Austropmnera turneri } sp. n. 



Head and pronotum black, posterior pronotal area strongly 

 punctate ; ocelli red ; antennae dull ochraceous, apices of the 

 first and second joints, the whole of third, and about basal 

 half of fourth joint black, basal joint about as long as head, 

 second longest ; scutellum black, centrally, obliquely trans- 

 versely testaceously ridged; corium dull ochraceous, clavus 

 and outer claval area darkly punctate, a broad, transverse, 

 black fascia beyond middle and the apical areas black ; 

 membrane dull black; head beneath and sternum black ; 



