Mr, W. \j. Distant on Australasian PontatoinMae. 3G'.) 



XlA.—/i/iy,u'hofali\otfS.—LU. Uy W. !> Distant. 



Australasian Pentatomidae. 



K iMULTiiA, gen. iiov. 



lli'ad lar^rc about as long as broad, the lateral margins 

 oljliijiu', .slightly sinuate, the apex subtruncute, .slightly 

 rounded, the apical area distinctly foveately depressed ; eyes 

 sul>stylate, a little curved backward, situate at or very near 

 base ; antenuie tive-joiuted, basal joint stout, not reaching 

 ap»'x of head, second and third subet[ual in length, third 

 stouter than second, both sliorter tlian fourth and til'tli, 

 which are stouter and also subequal in length ; pronotuni 

 longer than head, anterior margin and posterior margiu 

 before scutellum truncate, lateral margins almost straightly 

 oblicjue, distinctly and somewhat broadly grooved, more dis- 

 tinctly so anteriorly, the anterior angles moderately, lami- 

 nately, eonvexly {jroiluci (I ; scutellnm not quite reaching the 

 abdominal apex, slightly sinuate near base, the apex broadly 

 rounded ; corinm exjjosed for about half the lengtli of 

 scutellum; connexivum exposed for the posterior lialf; 

 rostrum slightly passing the posterior coxse ; alidomen short ; 

 femora slightly inerjissatcd ; tarsi three-jointed, third joint 

 about as long as first and second together. 



I do not know any very close ally of this genus. It may 

 be placed in the neighbourhood of P/ii/uoilcru. 



Kunibutha quudriaotata , sp. u. 



Head coarsely punctate, Idack, with fine obscure oblong 

 brownish-ochraccous spot.s — three near base and two near 

 apex ; pronotum thickly coarsely punctate, p:de ochraceous, 

 a large transverse sjibqnadrate spot on each side of anterior 

 area, a fine central longitudinal line, on eacli side of whicli 

 on posterior half is an ol)li(jue line followed by a small spot 

 between it and the posterior angle, jjiecous or black, on the 

 disk two central small shining stramineous levigate spots, 

 the anterior and lateral margins also very narrowly of the 

 same colour; scutellum thickly coarsely punctate, pale 

 ochraceous. nmch mottled with blackish, especially in the 

 central and posterior lat(>ral areas, on each side of base near 

 basid angles a small narrou- longitudinal shining stramineous 

 levigate spot ; exposed corium pale ochraceous, thick I v 

 darkly punctate; antenna* black, the first and second joints 

 brownish ochraceous ; body beneath blackish, abdomen with 

 Ann, tD M'lj. S. Hist. Ser. 8. VoL vi. 25 



