Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 471 
Head, excluding anterior margin, punctate and finely 
wrinkled ; pronotum coarsely punctate, with one or two 
punctures on its lateral margins; scutellum (excluding 
central fascia) coarsely punctate; clavus coarsely punctate 
near apex; antennz with the second joint longest, third a 
little shorter than fourth. 
Long. 5 millim. 
Hab. Australia: Queensland, Gayndah. 
Allied to G. provisus, Bergr., which I have received from 
Sidney, but differmg by its more elongate form, different 
colour of antenne, abdomen beneath, &c. 
Geocoris vestitus, sp. 0. 
Head black, lateral margins and apex broadly ochraceous ; 
pronotum piceous, very coarsely punctate, a central spot on 
anterior and posterior margins, and the lateral margins widen- 
ing posteriorly, luteous ; scutellum black, coarsely punctate, 
its lateral angles narrowly luteous ; corium aud membrane 
very pale luteous, the first with its disk infuscated and 
sparingly punctate, its lateral margins impunctate, clavus 
longitudinally punctate; sternum piceous, very coarsely and 
somewhat greyishly punctate ; abdomen castaneous, with its 
disk piceous ; coxal spots greyish ; antennee, rostrum, legs, 
lateral margins of sternum, and anterior margin of pro- 
sternum ochraceous. 
Long. 24 millim. 
Hab, Christmas Island (C. W. Andrews, Brit. Mus.). 
Allied to the Neotropical species G. thoracicus, Fieb. 
Genus GERMALUS. 
Germalus pallidus, sp. un. 
Pale ochraceous; apices of the eyes dark brown; head 
with two very small discal brown spots, the ocelli red; pro- 
notum coarsely brownly punctate, except at central basal 
margin, and four transversely elongate spots situate a little 
before anterior margin, four longitudinal lines of dark punc- 
tures—two central and one on each lateral area; scutellum 
coarsely brownly punctate, with a ¥ levigate fascia; clavus 
sometimes shaded with piceous; membrane pellucid ; con- 
nexivum with small piceous spots at apices of incisures. 
Antenne with the apical joint slightly incrassate and 
somewhat roseate in hue, second joint longest ; eyes mode- 
rately stylate, their apices slightly in advance of the lateral 
margins of the pronotum ; pronotum somewhat quadrangular, 
the anterior angles moderately oblique, lateral margins 
