578 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian CoieidEe. 



testaceous ; autennse pale castaneous, tlie apical joint oclira- 

 ceous ; head above aud anterior area of pronotum mode- 

 rately palely pilose ; pronotum and scutellum finely granu- 

 lose ; corium thickly finely punctate ; membrane subhyaline ; 

 abdomen above testaceous^ connexivum with dark castaneous 

 spots, becoming obsolete on basal area, and the inner abdo- 

 minal lateral margins with black marks, becoming obsolete 

 on apical half ; sternum more darkly granulose and punctate ; 

 abdomen beneath with two central longitudinal series of 

 black punctures, the spiracles and an inner segmental series 

 of small spots black, anal segment castaneous ; legs ochra- 

 ceous, femora above pale castaneous, posterior tibise and tarsi 

 pale ochraceous, the base and dilated area black ; structural 

 characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long., c? 17 mm. 



Hab. S. Queensland ; Tambourine Mts. {Kelsall, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



KuRNAiNA, gen. nov. 



(J. Body subelongate; head slightly longer than broad, 

 subquadrate,uot produced beyond the antenniferous tubercles, 

 lateral lobes scarcely longer than the central lobe, but dis- 

 tinctly divided at tlieir apices ; ocelli at base behind eyes, 

 about as wide apart as from lateral margins ; eyes slightly 

 longer than broad, adpressed on sides of head, situate at 

 about one-third from base; antennae with the basal joint 

 moderately incrassate, about as long as head, second and 

 third longest, fourth shorter than third, stouter and pyri- 

 form ; pronotum about as long as broad between the lateral 

 angles, lateral margins straightly oblique, anterior margin 

 truncate, posterior margin depressed, subconvex, lateral 

 angles subprominent; scutellum small, apparently triangular, 

 but imperfectly seen in the coarsely pinned type; corium 

 about as long as head, pronotum, and scutellum together ; 

 membrane not quite reaching apex of abdomen, veins nume- 

 rous and somewhat reticulate; connexivum exposed from 

 about middle of corium, distinctly upwardly retlesed ; ros- 

 trum reaching the intermediate coxse, first joint reaching 

 base of head, second extending to anterior coxre, third and 

 fourth short, subequal in length; mesosternum distinctly 

 centrally sulcate ; abdomen beneath moderately convex, 

 narrowed beyond middle to apex, the lateral margins lami- 

 nately depressed ; anterior femora obscurely bidentate at 

 apices, all the femora equally stout, posterior femora not 

 more incrassated. 



