580 Mr. W. L. Distant on Australasian Coreid^e. 



finely tuberculate, tibiae finely and obscurely granuloses 

 abdomen beneath somewhat thickly longitudinally ridged 

 and centrally finely linearly sulcate. 



Allied to Pomponatius, Dist. ; differing by the deeply 

 incised head between the antenniferous tubercles, different 

 comparative lengths of the antennal joints, rostrum not 

 passing the anterior coxae, the more elongate body and 

 shorter hemelytra, &c. 



Turrana abnormis, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and corium brownish ochra- 

 ceous ; membrane pale castaneous ; antennae black above, 

 shortly greyishly pilose ; body beneath greyish ochraceous ; 

 legs black or blackish, tibiae (excluding apices) dull ochra- 

 ceous ; head finely and obscurely punctate and pilose ; pro- 

 notum with the posterior two-thirds sparsely coarsely punc- 

 tate, with a central pale levigate line, the anterior area finely 

 irregularly granulose ; scutellum with a fine central longitu- 

 dinal ridge, on each side of which the colour is piceous; 

 corium irregularly punctate, some of the punctures profound ; 

 abdomen above testaceous, with a central pale longitudinal 

 line, connexivum black, spotted with ochraceous; other 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 13 mm. 



Hub. Queensland; Townsville {Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Pendulinus. 



Pendulinus, Tluinb. (part.), Hemipt. rostr. Cap. iv. p. 5 (1822). 

 Type, P. hasticornis, Thunb. 



Pendulinus fuscescens, sp. n. 



Brownish ochraceous ; extreme lateral margins of pro- 

 notum black ; extreme lateral margins and apex of scutellum 

 stramineous ; lateral margins of corium narrowly pale 

 ochraceous ; membrane pale bronzy, subhyaline ; body 

 beneath and legs pale testaceous ; antennae with the first, 

 second, and third joints testaceous, their extreme apices 

 black, fourth joint greyish brown, broadly palely annulated 

 near base, first joint a* little stoutest and moderately curved ; 

 first and third and second and fourth joints subequal in 

 length ; head with the central lobe broadly prominent before 

 the antenniferous tubercles ; pronotum coarsely darkly 

 punctate and moderately wrinkled, an obscure and some- 

 what interrupted central pale levigate line, lateral angles 



