504: i!ilr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Pentatomidae. 



ochraceous ; autennae pale virescent, first joint not nearly 

 reaching apex o£ head, second longer than first, a little 

 shorter than third ; third, fourth, and fifth subequal in 

 length, the apical joint moderately infuscate; head trans- 

 versely wrinkled ; pronotum somewhat thickly coarsely 

 punctate, the lateral angles strongly straiglitly produced ; 

 scutellum and corium thickly punctate ; membrane hyaline 

 and passing abdominal apex ; rostrum reaching the base of 

 the fourth abdominal segment, its apex black. 



Long. 16?, mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 12-13^ mm. 



llab. Kew South Wales ; Cumberland (Brit. jMus.). 



Allied to V. antemna, Bredd., but differing in the shorter 

 rostrum &c. 



Genus Garceus. 



Garceus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xi. p. 434 (1893). 



Type, G. fidelis, Dist. 



Since I founded this genus on a single specimen the 

 British Museum has acquired a fair series of examples, and 

 I now amplify my description and in one respect correct it. 

 My specimen led me to suppose that the antennse were four- 

 jointed ; from the more perfect specimens now before me I 

 find that they are five-jointed. 



Auteunte composed of five joints, first not reaching apex 

 of head, second, fourth, and fifth longest and subequal in 

 length, third short, subequal to first ; central lobe of head 

 about half its length, the lateral lobes united beyond it, 

 obtusely spinously dilated in front of the eyes ; scutellum a 

 little longer than head and pronotum together, becoming 

 distinctly more or less acuminate behind middle ; greatest 

 length of corium a little shorter than pronotum and scutellum 

 together ; membrane not quite reaching or slightly passing 

 the abdominal apex ; mesosternum between the anterior and 

 intermediate coxse with a transverse process, narrowing and 

 elevately terminating anteriorly betAveen the anterior coxae, 

 and centrally longitudinally sulcate ; between the inter- 

 mediate and posterior coxge, but extending behind the last, 

 an elevated flat process, the base of which reaches the apex 

 of the second abdominal segment ; odoriferous apertures 

 very distinct, transverse, somewhat short and apically a little 

 raised ; rostrum passing the anterior coxi«, first joint not 

 quite reaching base of head, second extending to anterior 

 coxae, third and fourth joints short, subeqiial in length. 



