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short, not so long as the third ; fourth as long as broad, eighth to tenth slightly trans- 
verse ; terminal joint elongate and acuminate. Head rather short and broad, black, 
very indistinctly punctate. Thorax strongly transverse, a little narrowed behind, with 
extremely indistinct hind angles, clear yellow in colour, closely and finely punctate. 
Elytra longer than the thorax, of a dilute black colour, yellow at the base, closely 
punctate. Hind body yellow, with the fifth segment entirely and the fourth in part 
black, and the extremity dilute black. Legs clear yellow. 
This species has a little approximation in appearance to the species of Gyrophena. 
As in H. trisignata the middle coxe are moderately separated; but in H. cingulifera 
the apex of the prosternal process is truncate, and the intercoxal isthmus shorter. The 
legs mounted in Canada balsam show clearly that the anterior tarsi are four-, the 
middle five-jointed. 
Six specimens, all in very bad preservation, have been examined. The male has the 
hind margin of the seventh dorsal plate prominent in the middle; the prominent 
portion is not very broad, is a little emarginate, and from each of its angles there 
proceeds forwards a raised straight line; on each side of this central prominence there 
is a rather deep curved emargination, the outside of the plate terminating in a sharp 
spine. 
48. Homalota prolixa. (Tab. V. fig. 14.) 
Elongata, angustula, perdepressa, rufescens, capite, elytris abdomineque ante apicem fuscis; antennis brevibus ; 
capite exserto, suboblongo, abdomine crebre punctato. 
Long. 1? millim. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion). 
Antenne quite short, pale red; second joint short, third small, considerably smaller 
than the second, fourth to tenth rather strongly transverse; terminal joint stout, short, 
and obtuse. Head straight at the sides, the eyes not large, the surface coarsely but 
subobsoletely punctate. Thorax subquadrate, as long as broad, quite straight at the 
sides, depressed along the middle, feebly punctate. lytra elongate, moderately closely, 
extremely finely punctate. Hind body slender at the base, becoming a little broader 
towards the extremity; the segments rather deeply transversely impressed at the base. 
This minute insect apparently possesses the characters assigned by Rey to his genus 
Thectura, the middle coxe being contiguous throughout their length and the gene 
immarginate; the joints of the tarsi I am unable to count. Only a single individual 
has been found. 
LEPTOGLOSSA. 
Leptoglossa, Solsky, Bull. Mose. xii. p. 260. 
This genus was proposed by Solsky in a rather informal manner for a Mexican insect ; 
and he at the same time stated that it was congeneric with the Chilian Homalota levi- 
ventris, Fauv.; indeed the characters of the new genus appear to have been chiefly 
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