376 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pciitatoniklas. 



Genus Austromalaya. 



SpndfFUs, Dall. List Hem. i. pp. 151 & 168 (1851) (noni. prseocc). 

 Austromalai/a, Kirk, Entomologist, 1908, p. 124 (nom. nov.). 



Type, A. reticulata, Westw. 



Austromalaya soueji, sp. ii. 



Greenish ochraeeous, irregularly, sometimes sparsely 

 coarsely darkly punctate, apex of scutellum distinctly paler ; 

 corium considerably mottled with ])uri)lish, more especially 

 on apical half ; tegmina very pale fuliginous, with the veins 

 darker ; body beneath and legs very pale ochraeeous ; head 

 beneath, lateral areas of prosternum, and acetabular regions 

 of the mesosternum coarsely blackly punctate, some sub- 

 lateral black punctures to the raetasternum; apical areas of 

 the femora blackly punctate, tibiye ornamented with detached 

 black lines arranged in pairs ; antennae with the first and 

 second joints greenish ochraeeous, streaked longitudinally 

 with black, third joint black, greenish ochraeeous at base, 

 second and third joints subeqnal in length, first slightly 

 passiHg apex of head, fourth and fifth joints mutilated in 

 type ; head sparingly punctate, more sparingly on basal area, 

 two short central longitudinal series of Idack punctures on 

 disk; pronotum sparingly coarsely darkly punctate, a some- 

 what large impuuctate macular space behind anterior margin, 

 lateral margins sinuate and shortly broadly dentate, posterior 

 lateral angles shortly porrectly produced, their apical areas 

 black ; scutellum coarsely darkly punctate, more sparingly 

 on basal area, and more finely and coucolorously on apical 

 area; corium somewhat sparingly punctate; connexivum 

 with clusters of black punctures on most of the segments, 

 their apical angles obtusely acute ; abdomen beneath im- 

 punctate, spiracles black. 



Long. 1/^ mm. 



Hab. N. Queensland ; Cooktown (D. Le Souef, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Allied to A. parvula, Westw., but larger, and differing in 

 having the second and third joints of antennae subeqnal in 

 length, the impunctate macular space at anterior margin of 

 pronotum, more strongly crenulate lateral pronotal margins, 

 and the more produced posterior lateral angles, &c. 



Genus EuMEcopus. 

 Eumecopus, Dall. List Hem. i. pp. lol & 172 (1851 j. 

 Type, E. armatus, Fabr. 



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