534 Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 
centrally sulcate; posterior tarsi with the basal joint only 
very slightly longer than the second and third joints. 
Long. 84 millim. 
Hab. Australia, Queensland (Brit. Mus.) ; Gayndah (Coll. 
Dist.). 
In form and colour much resembling Astacops Walker?, 
Dist. 
Scopiastes militaris, sp. 0. 
Dark fuscous ; about anterior third of pronotum, scutellum, 
outer median area of corium, head beneath, coxe and _ tro- 
chanters, and posterior areas of meso- and metasternum dark 
sanguineous ; abdomen beneath ochraceous; apical margins 
of membrane pale hyaline. 
Posterior area of pronotum coarsely punctate ; head cen- 
trally suleate ; posterior tarsi with the basal joint about equal 
in length to the second and third joints. 
Long. 74 millim. 
Hab, Australia, Queensland (Brit. Mus.). 
In form and _ structure allied to the preceding species, 
S. bicolor, Dist. 
Genus ONCOPELTUS. 
Oncopeltus quadriguttatus. 
Cimea 4-guttatus, Fabr. Syst. nt. p. 720. n. 116 (1775). 
Lyg@us sordidus, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 686, n. 8 (1852). 
Lyyeus contiguus, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 62. n. 186 (1872). 
Pyrrhobaphus contiguus, Leth. & Sev. Cat. Gén, Hém, t. 1. p. 150 
(1894). 
Oncopeltus jucundus. 
Lygeus jucundus, Dall. List Hem. ii. p. 587 (1852). 
Transvaalia lugens, Dist. Nat. in Transvaal, Append. p. 253, pl. iii. 
fig. 12 (1892). 
Oncopeltus dispar. 
Lygeus dispar, Walk, Cat. Het. y. p. 60. n. 125 (1872). 
‘This very variable species may prove to be but forms of 
Lygeus (Oncopeltus?) amboinensis, Mayr., while O. rubricatus, 
Stal, may possibly prove to be another variety. 
Oncopeltus maoricus. 
Lygaus maoricus, Walk, Cat. Het. v. p. 64, n. 143 (1872). 
Oncopeltus caslaneéipes. 
Lygeus castaneipes, Dall. List Hem. ii. p. 586, n. 10 (1802). 
Tyyaus innotatus, Dall. loc. cit. p. 587. n, 12. 
