Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasiari Pentatomitlas. 599 



Genus Amphaces. 

 Amphaces, Dall. List Hem. i. pp. 198 & 295 (1851). 



Type, A. ferruginea, Dall. 



Amphaces tibialis, sp. n. 



Head oehraccous, coarsely transversely wrinkled, more or 

 less punctate, lateral margins in front of eyes distinctly 

 obtusely angulate, a somewhat raised and levigate spot near 

 inner mai'gin of each eye, eyes black; antunnje mutilated in 

 typical specimen, basal joint passing apex of head ; pronotnm 

 oehraccous, basal half more or less suH'uscd with sanguineous 

 and irregularly wrinkled, coarsely punctate, more finely 

 punctate on anterior and lateral areas, the cicatrices pale 

 oehraccous and levigate ; scutellum reddish testaceous, with 

 two black spots at base in longitudinal series and continued 

 in a narrow subobsolete line to near apex, moderately thickly 

 punctate and irregularly finely wrinkled ; eorium brownish 

 ochraeeous, thickly rather coarsely punctate, membrane sub- 

 hyaline, passing the abdominal apex, and with a prominent 

 shining black spot at the basal angle near apex of elavus; 

 body beneath and legs pale ochraeeous, tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less piceous ; rostrum with the second joint and apex 

 blackish and just passing the mtermediate coxse ; abdominal 

 basal spine slightly passing the posterior coxse. 



Long. 11 mm. 



Uab. Tasmania ; Franklin {Com. IValker, Brit. i\Ius.). 



Collected during the cruise of H.M.S. ' Penguin.' 



Allied to A. proxima, Dall., from which it differs by the 

 more angularly dilated lateral margin of the eorium, the 

 dark tibiae and tarsi. 



Amphaces elonr/ata, sp. n. 



Elongate ; pale testaceous, thickly punctate ; head some- 

 what finely punctate, the lateral margins coiicavely sinuate 

 and preceded by a linear series of darker punctures, in front 

 of eyes very obtusely angulatc; antenuie with the first and 

 second joints brownish ochraeeous, third black, with its apex 

 pale ochraeeous, fourth black, with base and apex pale ochra- 

 eeous, first joint longly passing apex of head, second longest 

 but not twice as long as third, which is shortest, fifth muti- 

 lated in typical s])ccimen; pronotnm coarsely punctate, the 

 lateral margins [ireceded by black punctures; scutellum 



