258 Mr. W. L. Distant on Neofrojncal Pentatomidge. 



tudinal, uot anastomosed : rostrum reaching the posterior 

 coxse, first joint about reaching base of liead, second extending 

 to nearly the anterior coxse ; basal abdominal spine distinct, 

 not passing the posterior coxae; odoriferous apertures distinct, 

 transverse, about as long as coxae and trochanters together ; 

 femora moderately incrassate, tarsi two-jointed, first joint a 

 little shorter than second. 



A genus apparently to be placed near Hellica, Stal, and 

 Sniploa, Sign. 



Ea australis, sp. n. 



Olivaceous green, thickly, coarsely, darkly punctate ; an- 

 tennae, rostrum, body beneath, and legs ochraceous; trans- 

 verse lateral spots to pro-, raeso-, and metasterna, lateral 

 marginal abdominal spots inwardly preceded and united to 

 an irregular longitudinal submarginal fascia, carmine-red ; 

 margins of head and pronotum and basal lateral margins of 

 corium very narrowly and obscurely ochraceous, the mar- 

 gins of the pronotal lateral angles narrowly black ; head with 

 the lateral lobes distinctly transversely striate; pronotum, 

 scutelium, and corium distinctly rugulose as well as coarsely 

 punctate ; pronotum and scutelium with an obscure central 

 longitudinal linear ridge; membrane ochraceous, with a 

 central and apical castaneous suffusion ; connexivum ochra- 

 ceous, Avith large black spots ; other structural characters as 

 in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 10^-11 mm. 



Hub. Patagonia; Valle del Lago Blanco (Brit. Mus.). 



Synony.mical Notes. 



I take this opportunity for substituting new names for 

 some that have proved to be preoccupied. 



Neocensorixus, n. uom. 



Cemorinns, Dlst. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi. p. 598(1910), nom. 

 prreocc. 



Aspongopus circumclusus, n. nom. 



Asponffopus circumcinctns, Dlst. Ann. k Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi. p. 221 

 (1910), nom. prseocc. 



Penthimia reticiilosa, n. nom. 



Penthwiia reticulata, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1908, p. 103, uom. 

 praeocc. 



