342 Mr. W. L. Distant on Pentatomidae. 



slightly passing apex of scutellum ; membrane sliort, not 

 passing apex of abdomen, veins simple, somewhat irregularly 

 ceUular on basal area ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxee, first joint not quite reaching base of head ; tibiae 

 setose and sulcate ; posterior tarsi with the first joint shorter 

 than the two apical joints together, the joints robust. 



Allied to Meiiaccarus, A. & S., but distinguished from 

 that genus by the first joint of the posterior tarsi being 

 shorter than the two apical joints together. 



Kapunda typica, sp. n. 



Dull ochraceous, darkly punctate ; lateral margins of the 

 pronotum and basal lateral margins of corium pale ochra- 

 ceous and much more sparsely punctate; scutellum with a 

 small black foveate spot in each basal angle, preceded by a 

 pale ochraceous elongate levigate spot, a black elongate 

 marginal spot on each side before apex, which is narrowly 

 ochraceous and impuuctate; membrane pale hyaline; con- 

 nexivum ochraceous, with large punctate black spots at the 

 apices of the incisures ; body beneath ochraceous, bead and 

 sternum darkly punctate, the punctures forming more or less 

 distinct dark spots on the lateral areas of pro-, meso-, and 

 metasterna ; abdomen beneath with a distinct black longi- 

 tudinal subraarginal fascia on each side ; femora more or 

 less spotted with piceous or testaceous ; on disk of abdomen 

 beneath a few minute reddish spots ; structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. New South Wales ; Sydney {Comm. J. J. Walker, 

 Brit. Mus.) . 



Neomenestheus, gen. nov. 



Head about as long as broad between outer margins of 

 eyes, a little longer than the pronotum, lateral lobes longer 

 than the central, meeting beyond it but cleft at their apices, 

 their lateral margins moderately reflexed ; ocelli near base, 

 much nearer eyes than to each other ; antennae five-jointed, 

 third joint about reaching apex of head, first and second sub- 

 equal in length, third a little shortest, fourth and fifth sub- 

 equal and longest ; pronotum transverse, the lateral margins 

 oblique and narrowly retlexed, anterior and posterior margins 

 subtruncate, lateral angles rounded, not prominent; scutellum 

 about as long as broad at base, only moderately narrowed to 

 apex, which is somewhat broadly rounded ; corium about as 



