128 Christmas Island. 



converging in front ; membrane brownish hyaline. Legs with 

 a slightly ferruginous shade. 



Three specimens (one immature), North Coast, December, 1897,. 

 and April, 1898. On plants. 



Family PENTATOMID^. 

 2. Pentatoma grossepunctatum, sp.n. (PI. XV, Pig. 2.) 



Long. corp. 7-10 mm, ; lat. thor. 5 mm. 



Head with the central lobe about as long as the greatest width 

 of the head, and traversed by a double row of punctures ; the 

 lateral lobes slightly waved before the eyes, but curving inwards, 

 and more thickly punctured than the central lobe ; front and back 

 of head obtusely convex. General colour of the upper surface 

 reddish brown, with numerous large black punctures on the head, 

 thorax, scutellum, and tegmina ; they are largest and most 

 numerous on the thorax, where they run in irregular transverse 

 curves. Thoracic lobes obtusely prominent, and more or less^ 

 blackish ; corium black, with the costal border broadly testaceous ; 

 membrane brownish hyaline ; extremity of scutellum rather broad 

 and rounded, nearly smooth, and testaceous ; abdomen and under- 

 surface testaceous ; rostrum (which extends a little beyond the 

 base of the hind femora), tarsi, and tip of the antennae brown. 



Pive specimens, from Plying Pish Cove (no date), and North. 

 Coast, December, 1897. Not common, but came to lamp in evening. 



Not closely allied to any other species in the Museum. 



Pamily LYG^ID^. 

 3. Lygaeus subrufescens. (PI. XV, Pig. 3.) 



Lygceiis tubrtifescens, Kirb. ; P.Z.S., 1888, p. 553. 



"Long. Corp. 11-13 mm. 



" Pitchy brown above ; the head, pronotum, and base of the 

 tegmina bordered with dull red ; the ocelli, and the space between 

 each eye, brighter red ; antennae and legs pitchy brown above and 

 below ; head and body dull red beneath (in the female the abdomen 

 is shaded with brown on the sides, and towards the extremity, and 

 the legs are of a redder brown beneath than above). Proboscis 

 pitchy, extending to the middle of the third segment of the 

 abdomen. 



" Allied to Z. longiusculus, "Wlk., from Celebes." 



Plying Pish Cove (Lister). 



Two specimens. Plying Pish Cove, August, 1897, and "West 

 Coast, October 15th, 1897. Also ten immature specimens, one 

 from East Coast, September 28th, 1897 ; the others marked 

 ^'April, 1898." 



