372 Mr. ^V. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidas. 



the Pentatominse, led thereunto by carded specimens only. 

 "When the wings of many Pentatominre are examined Ave 

 may expect more inchisions into the Graphosomatinaj, which 

 is at present, with many genera, a somewhat diflicnlt problem, 

 if the wing-nenration is to be the dominant factor. 



Dandinus crassus. 



Dandinus crasfus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiii.p.265 (1904). 



Te.'ftn'coides pulcherrwnis, Sellout. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlix. p. 144 



(1905) ; id. in AVytsra. Gen. Ins. fasc. 30, p. 26, pi. ii. f. 8 (1905). 



Nab. Queensland, Townsville {Dodd, Brit. Mus.), Victoria 

 {^de Schoutedcn). 



The British Museum possesses a second species from 

 Hermaunsburg, Central Australia, of a testaceous coloration, 

 but not in sufficiently good condition for description, 



DippiLANA, gen. nov. 



Head almost as long as broad, considerably narrowed 

 anteriorly, but with the apex broad, subtruncate, the lateral 

 lobes passing the central lobe, but not meeting beyond it, 

 their apices broad, obliquely truncate, lateral margins a little 

 reflfxcd, oblique, very slightly sinuate, basal area distinctly 

 gibbous; ocelli near eyes, well separated from base; eyes 

 moderately large, not extending beyond the anterior pronotal 

 angles ; antennte robust, five-jointed, inserted a little nearer 

 to apex than to eyes, first joint thickened, attenuated at base, 

 moderately curved, about as loi'g as head but extending far 

 beyond it, second joint small, scarcely more than half the 

 length of first, third longest, fourth a little longer than fifth ; 

 pronotum half as long as broad at base, lateral margins 

 oblique, scarcely sinuate, anterior third obscurely crenulate, 

 posterior angle subangulate and subprominent, anterior 

 margin concave, posterior margin truncate before scutellum ; 

 scutellum longer than broad, apical area narrowed and sub- 

 angularly rounded ; corium almost as long as scutellum and 

 })ronotum together, costal margin distinctly moderately con- 

 vexlv rounded, its apical angle truncate; membrane small, 

 about half the length of corium, veins prominent and longi- 

 tudinal ; rostrum just passing the posterior coxse, first joint 

 reaching base of head, second joint reaching the anterior 

 trochanters, third distinctly longer than fourth ; abdomen 

 beneath distinctly centrally sulcate near base; legs of 

 moderate length, posterior tarsi with the basal joint about as 

 long as second and third joints together ; odoriferous aperture 

 short, transverse, angulate exteriorly. 



This genus may be placed near Poecilotoma, Dall. 



