On Scutelleringe and Graphosominae. 29 



This species differs from the others I am acquainted with 

 ill having a broader nose, and the anterior tibite are spinose 

 rather than dentate. 



Hab. Brownville, Texas {Wickham). One example. 



Epiechinus tasmani^ sp. n. 



Orbicularis, convexus, subaitidus, niger, setosus ; antennis rufis ; 

 fronte in medio carinata, utriuque punctata ; pronoto utriaque 

 bicarinato ; elytris 6-costatis ; propygidio utrinque late impresso ; 

 pygidio irregulariter punctate. 



L. 1| mill. 



Nearly circular in outline, convex, somewhat shining, 

 black and setose ; antenna3 wholly red, thighs red on the inner 

 surface; the head, thei'e is a well-marked median carina and 

 one on either side of it midway between it and the lateral 

 margin ; the thorax, the lateral edge is carinate and there is 

 an inner carina parallel to it, with a rather wide interstice 

 between them, behind the neck are four short carinje ; the 

 elytra, the outer margin, one humeral stria and first dorsal 

 stria are strongly carinate, and there are two others and a 

 sutural less elevated ; the propygidium is transversely and 

 widely impressed on either side, the impressions nearly 

 meeting in the middle ; the pygidium has one or two very 

 large punctures and smaller ones mostly differing in size from 

 one another ; the prosternum, anterior lobe with large deep 

 punctures, keel wide, with lateral striae hamate anteriorly, 

 surface of keel with a few small irregular points ; the meso- 

 sternum widely bisinuous, sternal pits shallow and widen out 

 transversely before and behind; the raetasternum has round 

 punctures much larger than those of the mesosternum, and 

 most numerous in the median area, along the edge behind the 

 sternal fovea is a strong carina. 



Hah. Cairus, New South Wales, from the Macleay Museum 

 (Lea, 1233). It is probable that many species of this genus 

 occur in Australia. 



II. — RhyncJiotal Notes. — Heteroptera : Scutelleringe and 

 Graphosominae. By W. L. Distant. 



Having commenced the rearrangement, with large incorpora- 

 tions, of the fine collection of Rhynchota in the British 

 Museum, the work of the late Francis Walker naturally calls 

 for revision, which 1 have attempted in this paper so far as 



