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AUSTRALIAN HEMIPTERA-MUSGRAVE. :321<br />
and terminating in three teeth, two produced forwards and one<br />
backwards and outwards.<br />
Scutellum reddish-black, rugose; the base raised in the form<br />
of a triangle due to the presence of the oblique grooves on either<br />
side running to the anterior angles; running from anterior to<br />
posterior border is a median glabrous fascia, ochraceous for twothirds<br />
of its length, the remainder black; on either side of median<br />
Figure 1.<br />
fascia, but barely distinguishable from the rugose surface, are two<br />
outwardly-curved glabrous ridges ochraceous in their anterior half,<br />
and which anteriorly bridge the grooves to meet the median ridge<br />
about the apex of the raised triangular base; posteriorly they<br />
meet with the median ridge near the end of the scutellum; end of<br />
scutellum black.<br />
Hemelytra black, punctate, thickly clothed with scales, outer<br />
margin of corium light-ochraceous.<br />
Sternum reddish-black, punctate, clothed with crystalline<br />
scales.<br />
Venter reddish-black and covered with crystalline scales and<br />
fine hairs; fiat medially, convex laterally, the anterior segments<br />
over-hanging the lateral margins.<br />
Legs with COXlB, trochanters, and bases of femora, posterior<br />
extremities of tibilB, and joints, yellowish, remainder reddish-black.<br />
Hab.-S. Australia: Ooldea, 1