ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, No. 2. 13 
Part IL-HEMIPTERA. 
By HENEY TBYON, Assistant Curator. 
Fam. Arthropteridje. 
1. Coptosoma am&na, Walker. Cat. Hem. Heter. i. p. 93 (1869). 
Loc. : St. Joseph River, Hall Sound (A. C. English) ; Eigi District 
(A. C. English) ; South Cape (T. H. Bichards) ; Chad's Bay, Cloudy 
Bay, Glasgow Harbour, South Cape. 
Note. — The examples from tlie St.' Joseph Kiver more nearly correspond with 
the type, a9 defined by Walker's description, than do those from the other localities 
mentioned. In the South Cape specimens the broad yellow streak on each side 
of the fore -border of the scutellum tends to become obsolete ; each streak being 
represented by a series of two or more spots only, or even by a single one. In 
specimens also from each of the three first-mentioned localities, the lateral yellow 
stripes on the fore-border of the pronotum may be more or less broken up or 
invaded by inlets or islets of the prevailing black body-colour. Again, the yellow 
markings of the scutellum, in the form of small, irregular, sometimes anastomosing 
blotches, may be distributed over its entire surface, with the exception of its disc. 
The " longitudinal lanceolate yellow streak " of the scutellum may also disappear. 
2. Brachyplatys simplex^ sp. nov. Above almost black, with a 
slight aeneous reflection, nitid ; head and pronotum nearly impunctate, 
scutellum with very fine punctures ; head with a few linear wrinkles, 
directed outwards from the central lobe. A narrow brown limb to 
prothorax, scutellum, and abdomen; a broader sub-marginal luteous 
line continuous along the sides of the pronotum and scutellum, or 
interrupted at the posterior lateral angles of the former. Basal joint 
of the antennae, two spots on head beneath — one on each side of the 
rostrum when in repose, a narrow internally dentate sub-marginal 
line on the abdomen beneath, and a row of spots along the line of the 
spiracles, yellow. Antennae and legs light fuscous. Corium, costa, 
and veins of membrane of fore-wings fuscous ; membrane itself with a 
faint brownish suffusion. Length, 4 to 4i lines. Loc. : Ely Eiver 
(W. Eroggatt). 
3. Brachyplatys paucifera, "Walker. Cat. Hem. Heter. i. p. 105. 
Loc: Ely Biver (W. W. Eroggatt). 
Note. — A single hemipteron from the above locality is referred to B. pauci- 
fera with some misgivings. It would appear to be a larger insect than is the type, 
being 3|- instead of 3 lines in length. From the description also of Walker's 
species it might reasonably be inferred that in it the head was uniformly seneous 
black. In the Fly Kiver insect before us, on the other hand, the head has a broad 
luteous band along its fore-border, including the dark-coloured central lobe and 
contiguous to a transverse narrow yellow line behind the latter. 
4. Brachyplatys pusilla, sp. nov. iEneous black, piceous beneath, 
nitid except thorax beneath, minutely punctured. Head nearly as 
broad as the thorax, yellow above and beneath, hind-border above, the 
base of the middle lobe, and a more or less distinct clouded transverse 
band between the fore-border of the eyes, fuscous. Prothorax with 
three yellow lines, as follows : — (1) Bordering the antero-lateral 
angles ; (2) a deeply undulating one behind the fore-border, but 
meeting it and the preceding line mid-way between the central point 
