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having the sides of the whole basal half of the anteocular part 
very broadly convex, continuously merged in the antenniferous 
tubercles which are convergent; the eyes are shortly stylated 
and so small that the vertex is about seven times broader than 
an eye; the ocelli are situated twice as far from each other as 
from the eyes; the bucculze are low and straight; the sides of 
the pronotum are convexly rounded, sinuated only immediately 
behind the apical angles; the scutellum is about as long as 
broad; the veins of the membrane are simple and few in num- 
ber. In Stelgidophora the convex anteocular part of the latera! 
margin of the head is not longer than the eye itself; the an- 
tenniferous tubercles are well separated from the lateral mar- 
gin of the head and not convergent ; the eyes are larger and not 
stylated ; the ocelli are four times farther from each other than 
from the eyes; the bucculz are lobed both anteriorly and pos- 
teriorly, the anterior lobe being rounded and deflected, the pos- 
terior lobe subacute and directed backward; the sides of the 
pronotum are deeply sinuated; the scutellum is much longer 
than broad; the membranal veins are densely reticulated. I 
have seen the type of pallida in the American Museum of Na. 
tural History, New York. 
Commius minor Bergr. 
The type specimen is somewhat immature. In specimens 
with the colors fully developed the two large basal spots to the 
pronotum and the ground color of the corium are dark brassy 
bluish greerf, not fuscous as in the type. This insect seems to 
be much more common than the typical species, C. elegans Don. 
It occurs in the whole eastern part of Australia and I have 
seen it in several collections. 
Notius melancholicus n. sp. 
Oblong, black, four small upper basal spots to head, narrow lateral 
margins of head, of pronotum and of basal half of corium, bucculz, 
rostrum (except apical joint), basal ring of the two last antennal joints, 
narrow margin of acetabula, coxe, trochanters, base of femora, a me- 
dian ring to tibiz, basal joint of tarsi, and a spot on the external apical 
genital lobe of female yellow. The last three antennal joints subequal 
in length, second joint distinctly shorter than third. Hemelytra dis- 
