474 Mr. W. L. Distant on Lygeide. 
clavate, distinctly longer than second joint, third a little 
shorter than second; body above coarsely punctate ; poste- 
rior femora incrassated and spinous along nearly the whole 
of inner margin; pronotum laterally moderately sinuate, 
with a distinct transverse impression on disk. 
Long. 7-8 millim. 
Hab. North Australia, Port Darwin (J. J. Walker, Brit. 
Mus.). 
Pachygrontha Lewisi, sp. n. 
Ochraceous; body above, sternum, and legs coarsely 
punctate ; pronotum with a central pale levigate fascia, bor- 
dered on each side with piceous, a spot of the same colour in 
each anterior lateral area, and one at each posterior angle; 
scutellum with the base black and a central, basal, lunate, 
levigate, pale fascia, continued in a straight line to apex, 
which is similarly levigate ; mner claval margin and apex of 
clavus piceous ; corium with the punctures arranged in longi- 
tudinal series, its apex and a somewhat large spot at inner 
angle piceous ; membrane with two converging piceous fascize 
from base to apex; abdomen pale, impunctate; a lateral 
fascia on each side from head to apex of abdomen, a narrow 
central macular fascia to abdomen, and margins of the anal 
appendage black. 
Antenne with the second and third joints subequal in 
length, the first longest, fourth shortest. Eyes projecting a 
little beyond anterior margin of pronotum. 
Long. 8 millim. 
Hab. Ceylon (G. Lewis). 
Maeninvs, gen. nov. 
Head longer than broad, immersed to eyes, central lobe 
produced in front of the lateral lobes, lateral lobes slightly 
angulated at their apices, broadened posteriorly from above 
the insertion of the antenne, where they are very distinctly 
angulated ; antennz robust, first joint longest and stoutest, 
second joint the most sl*nder, much shorter than first, a 
little longer than third, which is clavate towards its apex, 
fourth joint shortest, thickened, its apex attenuated; pro- 
notum trapeziform ; scutellum about as long as broad, both 
pronotum and scutellum traversed by a longitudinal median 
levigate line; corium extending to about two thirds the 
length of the abdomen, its apical margin nearly straight ; 
membrane almost reaching the apex of the abdomen; con- 
nexivum exposed ; anterior femora strongly incrassated and 
prominently spined beneath ; anterior tibize curved at base ; 
