On Heteroptera from North Queensland. 263 



XXXIII.— Bhynchotal Notes.— XXII. By W. L. Distant. 



Heteeoptera from North Queensland. 



The British Museum has recently acquired a collection of 

 Rhynchota made by Mr. F. P. Dodd at Townsville, North 

 Queensland. Although this order of insects is at present 

 very imperfectly known from the continent of Australia, 

 a sufficient number of genera and species have been described 

 to establish by their comparison that, so far as the Khynchota 

 are concerned, Northern Queensland represents or belongs to 

 a separate province in the zoo-geographical divisions of 

 Australia. The Heteroptera are alone dealt with in this 

 paper, the Homoptera being reserved for some future occasion. 

 The types are all in the National Collection. 



Earn. Pentatomidae. 

 Theseus nigrescens } sp. n. 



Ochraceous or stramineous, blackly punctate, the punctures 

 arranged in longitudinal series on head and on anterior area 

 of pronotum, those at lateral margins being continuous ; 

 antennas, sometimes a large spot on basal area of pronotum, 

 scutellum, membrane, body beneath, and legs black ; basal 

 half of fourth, extreme base of fifth, and inner margin of first 

 joint of antennae, basal lateral margins, apex, and sometimes 

 a small basal spot to scutellum, coxse, trochanters, longi- 

 tudinal streaks to femora, a broad subbasal ambulation to 

 tibige, tarsi (excluding apices), lateral margins of body 

 beneath, and discal spots to abdomen pale ochraceous. 



Allied to T. modestits, iStal ; scutellum black, more thickly, 

 less confluently, and more finely punctate, and with a very 

 distinct central longitudinal ridge on its posterior area. 



Long. 12^ mm. 



Eumecopus abdominalis, sp. n. 



Above reddish brown, irrorated with ochraceous, much 

 more strongly so on corium ; head with the lateral margins, 

 a central longitudinal fascia, margined on each side by a 

 shorter fascia on anterior area, and a slender curved line on 

 posterior area, narrow lateral and posterior margins, a central 

 linear spot at anterior margin, and two small discal spots on 

 anterior area of pronotum, a large spot at each basal angle 

 and the apex of scutellum, and marginal and venal lines to 



