iSO Mr. W. L. Distant o?i Australasian PontatomidEe. 



Seponiia parva, sp. n. 



HeatI Ijlack with an ochraceous levigate spot near anterior 

 margin of each eye ; antennae stramineous^ Avith the ajncal 

 ioint moderately infuscate ; pronotum ochraceous, thickly 

 darkly punctate, the anterior area black with two small 

 central levigate ochraceous spots, and posteriorly containing 

 two transverse pale punctate spots, the anterior and lateral 

 margins narrowly ochraceous, the latter with a small sub- 

 uiargiual spot utar their middle ; scutellum ochraceous, 

 darkly punctate and with irregular dark mottlings ; body 

 beneath black ; lateral mai'gins of presternum and small 

 marginal spots stramineous ; legs testaceous ; sternum 

 coarsely punctate^ abdomen finely, very thickly punctate. 



Long. 3 mm. 



Hab. Queensland ; Mackay {R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the Oriental and jNIalayan S. variolosa, Walk., 

 from which it diflers by its narrower pronotum. In S. vario- 

 losa the breadth of the pronotum at base between the 

 humeral angles is equal to the whole length of the body; in 

 S. parva it is distinctly shorter. 



Keostollia, gen. nov. 

 Stollia, sect, a, StSl, En. Hem. v. p. 81 (1876). 



Intermediate between Sepontia and Eusarcocoris. It 

 agrees with Sejjontia in the large scutellum extending to 

 the apex of the abdomen, and the deflected head, but differs 

 by the character given by Stal, " f renis vix plus quam 

 quintam partem laterum scutelli occupantibus," a character 

 which also separates it from Eusarcocoris, as also does the 

 larger scutellum. 



'I'ype, N. fascial at a, Stal. 



Stal enumerated his fasciolata as forming a section of 

 Elisor cocuris — Stollia; it, however, seems to have stronger 

 aflSnities with Sepontia and a generic division becomes 

 almost a necessity. 



Neostollia fasciolata. 



fStollitt fasciulata, Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 81 (1876). 



Hab. Australia. 



Neostollia bellula, sp. n. 



Head longer than broad at base, strongly declivous, 

 black, thickly coarsely punctate, lateral margins distinctly 



