^fr. W. L. Distant o;j Australasian Pcntalomidte. 47ri 



oblitiuc ; coniiexivum exposed from about half the length of 

 corium ; nieiuhranc almost reaching? abdominal a|K'X, tin; 

 veins lon^itndinal ; biucnhe Mtrongly rounilly I'lcvatt'd for 

 about thrir apical liaivi-s ; rostrum rt-achin;; the po>tt'rior 

 eoxa;, first joint reachiu}^ base of head, seeond nearly twice 

 as long aH third and fourth together; sternum centrally 

 suleate; legs of moderate length, anterior tarsi with the 

 seeond joint shortest, posterior tarsi mutilated in type ; 

 ahdomen heneath moileralcly convex. 



In geiu'ral appearance allied to ^Klia, from which it is 

 altogether distinct l)y the sulx'<|ual length of the lateral and 

 <-cntral lobes of the head ; allied U) Lulwntius hy the elevated 

 htu'cuhe aud sulcatcd sternum, but diCfering among other 

 characters by the uon-sulcatcd abdomen beneath. 



Pseudalia dementi, sp. n. 



Bright ochraceous with prominent lon;^itudinal black 

 fasei;e ; two central black fascue comineiicing at ap<'X of 

 head, where they are fused and continued through head, 

 pronotum, and seutellum, on the a})ical area of tJie latter 

 they are attenuated and terminate a little before apex, 

 lateral margins of head black ; pronotum with a sublateral 

 fascia and a short basal one between it and the two central 

 faseiie ; extreme lateral margins of scutellum Ijlack ; corium 

 with two broad black fasciae united at base, but not ou 

 aj)ical margin; membrane greyish, with longitudinal black 

 fascial broadly covering the veins; connexivum ochraceous; 

 body beneath ochraceous, with two longitudinal black fasciae 

 ou each side and a central fascia on abdcnuen, these faseiaj 

 are a little narrower than those above and ou the head are 

 somewhat broken ; legs ochraceous, subapical annulations 

 to femora, apices of tibiae, and the tarsi black ; above 

 strongly coarsely punctate, especially in the black fasciai, 

 some of the intervening pale spaces being levigate and 

 impunctate ; antennie ochraceous, fourth aud fitth joints 

 more or less infuscate ; sides of the buccuhe, apical area of 

 head beneath, acetabula, and the anterior and posterior 

 margins of the sternal segments more or less strougly 

 j»nnetate; other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hub. W. Australia; Nieol Bay Distr. {Dr. Clement, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Genus Sepontia. 

 Sepontia, Stil, Hem. Afr. i. p. 133 (1865). 

 Type, .?. misella, St&l. 



