Mr. AV. L. Distant on Aii>(r,Jit.siiin Peiitatomidie. -4G0 



Adclaideiia nyinu, sp. n. 



Above greyish ochraceous, mottled with black ; licad 

 si)arin<jly cinirscly brownly punctate, a distinct inipunctate 

 spot a little before each eye, a tew black punctures at middle 

 ol" apical niar;^in ; antcnnie with the first, .second, and third 

 joints ochraceous with a few brown punctures, fourth and 

 fifth black with their bases ochraceous, second and third 

 almost subequal in length, fourth and fifth distinctly in- 

 crassated excluding l)ase and subetjual in length; pronotum 

 sparingly rather coarsely brownly punctate, the cicatrices 

 bordered with black, and a transverse scries of black punc- 

 tures about oue-thinl from base continued in six longitudinal 

 series to base, in the basal area there are also six levigate 

 ochraceous lines ; seutellum sparingly coarsely punctate, 

 some of the punctures being black, a black spot at each basal 

 angle and a small black s|)()t on each side a liitle before 

 a|)ex ; corium and eounexivum sparingly coarsely brownly 

 j)unctate, the latter with the incisures margined on each 

 side with black, membrane greyish with the veins brownish; 

 body beneath aud legs very pale ochraceous, abdomen casta- 

 iieously puuctate ou each lateral area; femora blackly 

 ]»unctate near apices, tibiie blackly punctate ou central area, 

 posterior legs mutilated in type ; structural characters as iu 

 generic diagnosis. 



Long. 6 mm. ; exp. prouot. angl. -1 mm. 



Hub. N.W. Australia; Adelaide Kiver [Com. fValker, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Collected during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Penguin.' 



Genus ^Ienestiieus. 

 Menestlieus, StSl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Furh. 1(;(37. p. 504. 



Type, M. nercivus, Dall. 



In Stdl's description of the genus he gives the head a.-* 

 much longer than the pronotum ; this is quite correct as in 

 M. cuneatus, Dist., but not so with regard to the type 

 M. nercivus, Dall., in which the head and pronotum are 

 equal or subequal in length, as they are also iu the species 

 now described. 



Menestheus doddi, sp. n. 



Dull ochraceous, punctured with brownish ; head about as 

 long as pronotum, narrowing to apex, the lateral lobes con- 

 siderably longer than the central, meeting beyond it with 

 their apices distinctly separated, the central lobe is blacklv 



