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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

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