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49. Melamphaus, sp. Female : Black with dark steel-blue reflec- 
tions. Prothorax posterior to the hinder transverse suture and on the 
sides — both above and beneath, corium, and abdomen, red. Membrane 
light orange. Scutellum with the tip and narrow reflexed margin 
luteous. Apical angles of corium crossed by a narrow fuliginous bar. 
Posterior border of pro- and meso-pectus whitish. Rostrum extending 
to hind-border of second abdominal segment, its first and second 
joints subequal, third rather less than second. Antennae uniformly 
black ; the apical joint clothed with greyish pubescence ; first joint 
equal to prothorax and much longer than either third or fourth, 
second longer than third. Fore-femora with the two sub-apical 
spines well developed. Length, 8 lines. Log. : Rigi District (A. C. 
English). 
Note. — The solitary example from which the above characters are derived, 
does not appear to correspond with the definition of any species hitherto described. 
Fam. Cobeid^;. 
Sub-fam. Cortina. 
50. Mciis pro/ana, Fabr. S.R. p. 211, 33 (1803). Loc: St. 
Joseph River (A. C. English) ; South Cape (T. H. Richards) ; Rigi 
District (A. C. English); Kiwai, Ply River; Fergusson Island (A. C. 
English) ; Laloki River ; Toko, Fairfax Harbour. 
Note. — The New Guinea insects are identical in appearance with those from 
Queensland, which the writer has been wont to regard as M. prof ana, Fabr. How- 
ever, none of the Queensland or New Guinea examples have, in the male sex, the 
il tibiis posticis pone dentem simp lie ibus" (Stal), there being a number of small, 
narrow, blunt teeth in this situation. In some of the South Cape examples, and 
in the two specimens from Laloki River, the luteous marking of the corium of the 
hemelytra is confined to a narrow line adjoining the base of the membrane. 
51. Pternistria macromera, Gruer. Voy. Coq. Zool. 2, 2, p. 176 
(1830). Log. : Toko, Fairfax Harbour; Taputa, Chad's Bay. 
Notb. — Apparently identical with examples of Pternistria from Cape York, 
but females only are available from the latter locality for comparison. 
52. Mycillus explicates, Distant. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, 
4, p. 481, pi. xiii. fig. 11. Loc.: St. Aignan, 5-7-91 (male) ; Cloudy 
Bay (female) ; Laloki River (male and female). 
Note. — Tlie examples fuom the Laloki River differ from the type in being 
of smaller dimensions. Moreover, one cannot be quite certain that the specimens 
from the two first-mentioned localities are correctly referable to the same species. 
In the figure illustrating W. L. Distant's description a stout tooth appears at the 
external base of the posterior tibiae. This is evidently an embodiment of the 
artist's idea of the fitness of things. Mycillus, it is submitted, will ultimately be 
included in Pternistria. 
53. Priocnemicoris alhitliorax, Boisd. Voy. Astr. Ent. 2, p. 635, 
pi. 11, fig. 13, 1835. Loc: Fly River (Froggatt). 
54. 'Priocnemicoris, sp. Loc. : Laloki and Cloudy Bay. 
Note. — This second species of Priocnemicoris is represented by two males 
only. In it the brilliant metallic green, which P. albithorax exhibits upon the 
upper surface, gives place to purple blue reflections, an seneous glimmer only 
appearing upon the scutellum. 
55. Brachylybas 0,sp. Loc: St. Joseph River (A. C. English). 
