On Scutellerinas mid Graphosominje. 29 This species differs from the others I am acquainted with ill having a broader nose, and the anterior tibite are spinose rather than dentate. Hab. Brownville, Texas ( Wickham) . One example. Epiechinus tasmani, sp. n. Orbicularis, convexus, subnitidus, niger, setosus ; antennis rufis ; fronte in medio carinata, utrinque punctata ; pronoto utriuque bicarinato : elytris 6-costatis ; propygidio utrinque late impresso ; pygidio irregulariter punctate. L. 1| mill. Nearly circular in outline, convex, somewhat shining, black and setose ; antennae wholly red, thighs red on the inner surface ; the head, there is a well-marked median carina and one on either side of it midway between it and the lateral margin ; the thorax, the lateral edge is carinate and there is an inner carina parallel to it, with a rather wide interstice between them, behind the neck are four short carinse ; the elytra, the outer margin, one humeral stria and first dorsal stria are strongly carinate, and there are two others and a sutural less elevated ; the propygidium is transversely and widely impressed on either side, the impressions nearly meeting in the middle ; the pygidium has one or two very large punctures and smaller ones mostly differing in size from one another ; the prosternum, anterior lobe with large deep punctures, keel wide, with lateral striee hamate anteriorly, surface of keel with a few small irregular points ; the raeso-sternum widely bisinuous, sternal pits shallow and widen out transversely before and behind ; the metasternum has round punctures much larger than those of the mesosternum, and most numerous in the median area, along the edge beiiind the sternal fovea is a strong carina. Hab. Cairus, New South Wales, from the Macleay Museum {Lea, 1233). It is probable that many species of this genus occur in Australia. II. — Ehynchotal Notes. — Heteroptera : Scutelleringe and Graphosominai. By W. L. Distant. Having commenced the rearrangement, with large incorpora-tions, of the fine collection of Rliynchota in the British Museum, the work of the late Francis Waiker naturally calls for revision, wliich 1 have attempted in this paper so far as
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