142 HEMIPTERA, 



impunctate spot on the disc behind the middle, and on the cent] 

 of the disc a dark patch ; membrane black, with the nervures 

 pale brown. Margins of the abdomen variegated with yellow 

 and black. Body beneath pale yellow, rather thickly punctured 

 with brown. Abdomen with a slightly elevated line on each side 

 on the second and third segments, and with a small black spot 

 on each side of the base of the third, fourth and fifth, consider- 

 ably within the stigmata. Breast with three black points on 

 each side. Legs pale yellow ; thighs thickly covered with small 

 brown points, especially towards the apex; the posterior pair 

 with the inner surface of the apical portion black ; the apices of 

 the tibiae and the tarsi black. Rostrum yellowish white, with 

 the tip black. Antennae stout, pitchy black, with the two basal 

 joints brownish; the third and fourth with their apices dull 

 orange. 



a. Swan River. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



8. DICTYOTUS geniculatus, n. s. 



D. ochraceus, fusco-punctatus ; capite antice emarginato; cor- 

 pore subtus pedibusque albido-testaceis, femoribus 4 anticis 

 apice nigro-punctatis, 2 posticis, tibiisque omnibus, apice, tar- 

 sisque nigris; antennarum articulis 1, 4 et 5 nigris, 2 et 3 

 4-que apice, fulvis. ? . 

 Long. lin. 3. 



Ovate, above ochreous, thickly and finely punctured with 

 brown. Head slightly notched at the apex, the lateral lobes 

 passing the central but not meeting beyond it, very thickly punc- 

 tured, with a yellow, impunctate, central, longitudinal line. Eyes 

 prominent, pitchy brown. Thorax with the lateral angles rather 

 prominent, obtuse ; the lateral margins yellow, impunctate, black 

 towards the lateral angles. Scutellum with a minute yellow dot 

 in each basal angle. Membrane of the elytra semitransparent, 

 whitish, with a brown spot in the inner basal angle, and some 

 small brown spots and lines on the disc. Back of the abdomen 

 black, slightly shining and tinged with violet, very thickly and 

 finely punctured ; the margins orange yellow, finely punctured 

 with brown, and with a black band at the junction of each seg- 

 ment. Abdomen beneath yellowish white, finely punctured with 

 brown, and with a broken, black longitudinal band on each side 

 of the disc, meeting in the centre of the last segment. Breast of 

 the same colour as the abdomen, punctured with brown, with a 

 band of blackish punctures on each side of the antepectus, arid 

 a bifid black patch on the mesosternum. Legs yellowish white; 

 anterior thighs, except at the base, and the apex of the interme- 

 diate thighs covered with more or less confluent blackish brown 



