Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian PentatomidsR. 51) I 



rior angles suhpromincut, lateral angles subprominent and 

 obtusely toothed, anterior margin eoneavc, eullons, and poste- 

 riorly (li fined at its middle area by a transverse series of 

 punetures, posterior margin almost straight, the posterior 

 angles very slightly roundly subprominent; scutcllum as 

 long as broad, depressed a little beyond base, aj)ex rounded ; 

 corium about as long as head and pronotnni together, the 

 costal margin a little eonvex ; mrmbranc passing aljdominal 

 apex, veins numerous and longitudinal, sometimes one or 

 two fnreate at apex ; rostrum extending to the posterior 

 00X02, first joint reaching base of head, second slightly 

 passing anterior coxic, third reaching intermediate coxae, 

 sternal j)rocess not reaching apex of prosternum, anteriorly 

 roundly oljliquely depressed, posteriorly exeavately bispinous 

 for the reception of the apex of an abdominal basal tubercle; 

 legs of moderate length, tarsi somewhat long, posterior tarsi 

 with the basal joint almost as long as the remaining joints 

 together; odoriferous orifice distinctly curved. 



Allied to Peyalu, Stal*, but with the head broader and 

 apex truncate, eyes distinctly removed from the anterior 

 angk'S of the pronotum, proportional length of the autcuual 

 joints different, apex of scutcllum rounded, not acute. 



Koogobatha mirabUis, sp. n. 



Colour bright and shining ; head ochi*aceous, lateral 

 margins narrowly, a broad central longitudinal fascia (broken 

 posteriorly), and the base broadly black; antennae black; 

 pronotum ochraceous, with three prominent black spots, 

 two (transverse) on antenor area, and the third rounded at 

 middle near base ; scutcllum black ; corium black, its basal 

 angle ochraceous, and with a somewhat large reddish- 

 testaceous discal patch on the posterior area ; membrane 

 black ; body beneath pale ochraceous, a central rounded 

 spot on each side of the process on mesosteruum, a trans- 

 verse spot on each side of the sternal segments, and four 

 longitudinal series of spots to abdomen beneath (the largest 

 on each side of disk) black ; legs ochraceous, a broad annula- 

 tion on apical halves of femora, the whole of the tibiaj and 

 the tarsi more or less black ; rostrum black ; head finely 

 transversely w rinkled on each lateral area ; pronotum very 

 finely and obscurely punctate ; scutcllum sparsely punctate, 



• In reference to the structural cliaracters of Pe/fala, Stfil, those 

 given by Ilaglund of the typical species P. guttula (^Stett. ent. Zeit. 18G8, 

 p. 159), on which the genus is founded, should be consulted. 



