Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian PeutatomiJaj. uSO 



Genus MoRNA. 

 Morna, St31, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1807, p. ."^21. 

 Type, .1/. cornnia, lla^\., = Itucospilcij Walk. 



Murua leucospila. 



Ctispicona leucospilo, Walk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. 387 (1807). 



Kirkaldy, in his recent Catalogue, has placed this species 

 as a synonym o( M. ayressor, Fabr. These two species arc, 

 however, quite distinct and not likely to be confused. 

 (\ Ifucospila is a smaller species, with the posterior pronotal 

 angles more longly produced and more acute, and the 

 scuti'llum is narrower. The type of M. ayressor is in the 

 Bank>ian collection, and with it I have compared the type 

 of Walker's species. 



Genus Cuspicona. 

 Cuspicona, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 290 (1851). 



Type, C. thoracica, Wcstw, 



Cuspicona splendidula, sp. n. 



Bright ochraceoiis; basal area of pronotum (including the 

 lateral angles), a broad marginal t'u.'icia on each side of 

 scutcllum (not reaching base, but united and occupying 

 apex), terminal abdominal spines (above and bcneith), aud 

 the posterior angles ot" the prosternum sanguineous; head 

 finely granulosc ; antennae pale ochraccous, basal joint not 

 (piite reaching apex of head, second and tnird subfcjual in 

 length, fourth and fifth thickened and sul)cqu;il, apical area 

 of third also thickened; pronotum thickly finely punctured, 

 the lateral angles sonicu hat straightly and strungly angu- 

 larly produced ; scutellum sparsely finely punctate, more 

 thickly so in the sanguineous areas ; corium more coarsely 

 punctate ; membrane pale hyaline, refieeting the sanguineous 

 hue of the abdomen beneath it; sternal process reaching 

 l)aseof head; abdomen beneath \\ith a central longitudinal 

 ridge. 



Loug. 10^ mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 7 mm. 



Hub. Queensland (Brit. Alus.). 



This beautiful species has no more precise locality than 

 the aljove. It was purchased with other iuj.ects from 

 Queensland in 1872. 



