586 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidae. 



Myappena capita , sp. n. 



Pale castaneous, tliickly mottled with ochraceous^ dis- 

 tinctly coarsely punctate ; prouotum with a submarginal 

 black line to the lateral margins, the margins of the cicatrices 

 levigate ochraceous ; scutellura with a black foveate spot at 

 each basal angle, its apex narrowly pale ochraceous : mem- 

 brane hyaline, reflecting the darker abdomen beneath, the 

 veins darker ; antennae pale castaneous, extreme bases of 

 third and fourth joints paler; body beneath and legs pale 

 ochraceous; a submarginal line to prosternum, apices of 

 lateral lobes of head beneath, a spot on each side of pro- and 

 mesosterna, and apex of rostrum black ; lateral margins of 

 abdomen beneath testaceous red ; legs thickly finely spotted 

 with testaceous, tibiae distinctly pilose ; prosternum more or 

 less distinctly darkly punctate ; other structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 8-10^ mm. 



Hab. Queensland; Peak Downs. 



Genus Menida. 



Menida, Motscli. Et. Eut. x. p. 23 (1861). 

 Type, M. violacea, !Motsch. t 



Menida spectabilis, sp. n. 



Broadly ovate, somewhat convex above; head broad, sub- 

 truncate anteriorly, ochraceous, somewhat thickly brownly 

 punctate ; antennse pale ochraceous, the apical joint (ex- 

 cludiu? base) fuscous; pronotum ochraceous, brownly punc- 

 tate, the sublateral areas broadly suffused with black, extreme 

 lateral margins pale ochraceous, on basal marginal area four 

 large irregular black spots, somewhat fasciate in appearance, 

 on central disk two small conspicuous black spots ; scuteilum 

 ochraceous, brownly punctate, two central black fused spots 

 at middle of basal margin, and a smaller one on each lateral 

 margin near apex, a small levigate ochraceous spot at each 

 basal angle : corium black, coarsely punctate, apical half of 

 clavus and apical area of corium ochraceous, more or less 

 blackly punctate, a prominent levigate ochraceous spot on 

 disk at about one-third from apical margin ; membrane 

 greyishly subhyaline ; body beneath and legs pale ochra- 

 ceous, disk of metasternum blackly punctate, a small black 

 spot on each side of pro- and mesostema, spiracles blackish ; 



