Ml'. \\ . L. Distant on Aii»fraliisitin Pt'iitatoinitho. •! 7 7 



niiterior nuj;lcs rouiidly suljproniiucnt ; scutcllmii ahoiit as 

 loii^ a.s broad nt banc, soiiuMvbut <;iljl)0(is on basal area, 

 ])()stiTiorly attcmuited, the apex rouiuieil and sli;^htly passing 

 tlie interior angles of the eoriuin ; nieinltrane slij^htly 

 ]>assin;^ the al)(loiuinal ajK'X ; rostrum moderately j)assiii;^ 

 the posterior cox;e, first joint reaehiii;.^ base of iiead, seeond 

 almost reaehiii;; the iiitc-rmediate eoxie, third extending to 

 the posterior eoxie ; abdomen eon vex beneath, 

 I plaee this genus near Arnisciis, Dist. 



Kalkadoona ceutromaculatn, sj). n. 



Oehraccous ; head with the basal area punctate, the 

 lateral lobes finely wrinkled; antenine with the first, seeond, 

 and tliiril joints pale a<'hraeeous, apex of third and tlie 

 whole of the fourth and fifth joints testaceous ; pronotum 

 distiui'tly punctate and more or less rugulose, between the 

 humeral angles a transverse scries of four, sometimes in- 

 distinct, fuscous spots; seutelluni finely wrinkled and 

 distinctly punctate, its apical margin narrowly testaceous; 

 coriuni thickly finely punctate; membrane greyish; eon- 

 nexivum with the posterior angles of the .segments moderately 

 prominent ; sternum coarsely punctate ; abdomen beneath 

 finely, indistinctly punctate ; legs more or less finely spotted 

 w ith fuscous ; abdomen above black, thickly finely punctate, 

 the last two segments and the conncxivum j)alc oehraccous, 

 more or less blackly jmnctate ; structural characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Long. 7.', mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5 mm. 



Hub. Centr. Australia; Hermanusburg (//. J. Ili/lier, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



IIiLLiERiA, gen. nov. 



Body elongate ; head longer than pronotum, about as 

 long as seutelluin, longly acuminate, the lateral lobes about 

 twice as long as the central and meeting beyond it; ocelli 

 at base, nearer eyes than to each other ; antcnnaj five- 

 jointed, inserted beneath and a little before eyes, first joint 

 stout, short, equal in length to third, each a little shorter 

 than becond, third and fourth longest, subequal in length, 

 third not reaching apex of head ; pronotum about twice :is 

 broad at base as midial length, moderately depressed on its 

 anterior half, lateral margins eoncavely sinuate, the anterior 

 angles somewhat longly anteriorly sj)inoiis ; anterior margin 

 strongly concave for the reception of the liead, posterior 

 margin truncate before scutellura, the posterior angles 



