4 M Mr. W. L. Distant on the 



LI. — Contributions to a further Knowledge of the Rhynchotal 

 Family Lygaeidae. By W. L. Distant. 



Astacops subochraceus, sp. n. 



Head and pronotnm testaceous ; the stylated eyes apically 

 black ; antennse black, base of first joint testaceous ; 

 scutellum black ; coriuni dull pale purplish, the clavus 

 darker and more nigrescent ; membrane glossy black, its 

 apical area pale ochraceous ; head beneath pale sanguineous; 

 sternum and abdomen beneath ochraceous, disk of abdomen 

 a little darker and containing a central longitudinal seg- 

 mental series of mostly transverse black spots ; legs black, 

 anterior and intermediate femora — excluding bases — san- 

 guineous; rostrum black; antennas with the second joint 

 longest, third slightly longer than fourth, which is greyishly 

 pubescent ; pronotum with the anterior marginal area 

 transversely broadly carinate, from which a much more 

 slender, central, longitudinal cari nation extends about mid- 

 way across pronotum ; scutellum strongly transversely 

 carinate near base, and from thence centrally longitudinally 

 carinate to apex ; membrane passing the abdominal apex. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hub. Queensland (F. P. Dodd). 



Allied to A. viridivtntris, Stal. 



Scopiastes turneri, sp. n. 



Head reddish ochraceous, apices of the strongly stylated 

 eyes and the apex, or apical area, of the central lobe black ; 

 pronotum, broad lateral areas of sternum, scutellum, corium, 

 and membrane black ; abdomen beneath pale reddish 

 ochraceous with a broad, sublateral, longitudinal fascia on 

 each side and the apex black ; coxye and femora ochraceous, 

 their apices or apical areas and the tibiae and tarsi black or 

 blackish ; antennas black or blackish, basal joint — excluding 

 apex — ochraceous, second and third joints longest and sub- 

 equal in length ; eyes very strongly and robustly stylated 

 and a little coucavely and upwardly produced; pronotum 

 coarsely and rugulosely punctate; scutellum transversely 

 carinate near base, and thence centrally longitudinally 

 carinate to apex, which is acute; corium thickly finely 

 punctate ; membrane about reaching but not passing abdo- 

 minal apex. 



Long. (i-(i) 7 mm. 



