﻿580 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  L. 
  Distant 
  on 
  Australasian 
  Coreidae. 
  

  

  finely 
  tuberculate, 
  tibiae 
  finely 
  and 
  obscurely 
  granulose 
  ; 
  

   abdomen 
  beneath 
  somewhat 
  thickly 
  longitudinally 
  ridged 
  

   and 
  centrally 
  finely 
  linearly 
  sulcate. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  Pomponatius, 
  Dist. 
  ; 
  differing 
  by 
  the 
  deeply 
  

   incised 
  head 
  between 
  the 
  antenniferous 
  tubercles, 
  different 
  

   comparative 
  lengths 
  of 
  the 
  antennal 
  joints, 
  rostrum 
  not 
  

   passing 
  the 
  anterior 
  coxae, 
  tlie 
  more 
  elongate 
  body 
  and 
  

   shorter 
  hemelytra, 
  &c. 
  

  

  Tarrana 
  abnormis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Head, 
  pronotum, 
  scutellum, 
  and 
  corium 
  brownish 
  ochra- 
  

   ceous 
  ; 
  membrane 
  pale 
  castaneous 
  ; 
  antennae 
  black 
  above, 
  

   shortly 
  greyishly 
  pilose 
  ; 
  body 
  beneath 
  greyish 
  ochraceous; 
  

   legs 
  black 
  or 
  blackish, 
  tibiae 
  (excluding 
  apices) 
  dull 
  ochra- 
  

   ceous 
  ; 
  head 
  finely 
  and 
  obscurely 
  punctate 
  and 
  pilose 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   notum 
  with 
  the 
  posterior 
  two-thirds 
  sparsely 
  coarsely 
  punc- 
  

   tate, 
  with 
  a 
  central 
  pale 
  levigate 
  line, 
  the 
  anterior 
  area 
  finely 
  

   irregularly 
  granulose 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  with 
  a 
  fine 
  central 
  longitu- 
  

   dinal 
  ridge, 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  colour 
  is 
  piceous; 
  

   corium 
  irregularly 
  punctate, 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  punctures 
  profound 
  ; 
  

   abdomen 
  above 
  testaceous, 
  with 
  a 
  central 
  pale 
  longitudinal 
  

   line, 
  connexivum 
  black, 
  spotted 
  with 
  ochraceous; 
  other 
  

   structural 
  characters 
  as 
  in 
  generic 
  diagnosis. 
  

  

  Long. 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Queensland; 
  Townsville 
  {Dodd, 
  Brit. 
  Mus.). 
  

  

  Genus 
  Pendulinus. 
  

   Pendulinus, 
  Thunb. 
  (part.), 
  Hemipt. 
  rostr. 
  Cap. 
  iv. 
  p. 
  5 
  (1822). 
  

   Type, 
  P. 
  hasticornis, 
  Thunb. 
  

  

  Pendulinus 
  fuscescens, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Brownish 
  ochraceous 
  ; 
  extreme 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  pro- 
  

   notum 
  black 
  ; 
  extreme 
  lateral 
  margins 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  scutellum 
  

   stramineous; 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  corium 
  narrowly 
  pale 
  

   ochraceous 
  ; 
  membrane 
  pale 
  bronzy, 
  subhyaline 
  ; 
  body 
  

   beneath 
  and 
  legs 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  antennae 
  with 
  the 
  first, 
  

   second, 
  and 
  third 
  joints 
  testaceous, 
  their 
  extreme 
  apices 
  

   black, 
  fourth 
  joint 
  greyish 
  brown, 
  broadly 
  palely 
  annulated 
  

   near 
  base, 
  first 
  joint 
  a 
  little 
  stoutest 
  and 
  moderately 
  curved 
  ; 
  

   first 
  and 
  third 
  and 
  second 
  and 
  fourth 
  joints 
  subequal 
  in 
  

   length 
  ; 
  head 
  with 
  the 
  central 
  lobe 
  broadly 
  prominent 
  before 
  

   the 
  antenniferous 
  tubercles 
  ; 
  pronotum 
  coarsely 
  darkly 
  

   punctate 
  and 
  moderately 
  wrinkled, 
  an 
  obscure 
  and 
  some- 
  

   what 
  interrupted 
  central 
  pale 
  levigate 
  line, 
  lateral 
  angles 
  

  

  