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length and terminating in a club-shaped spot, claval apices, and apex of corium (margining base of 
cuneus) ochraceous. Eyes greyish. Antenne with the first and second joints black, third and fourth 
fuscous, base of the third broadly pale luteous. Membrane fuscous, its apical half paler. Body beneath 
and legs black ; underside of head and. coxe pale luteous, anterior and lateral margins of prosternum pale 
ochraceous. Rostrum black. 
‘The upper surface is thickly and coarsely punctate; the pronotum has the lateral margins distantly channelled 
and very coarsely punctate, the anterior gibbous portion being centrally sulcated. 
Long. 5-8 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Bugaba (Champion). 
4. Valdasus funebris, n. sp. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 8.) 
Body above dark fuscous; head and eyes obscure luteous, irregularly spotted and shaded with brownish; 
posterior margin of pronotum, two small spots near base of scutellum and apex of same, and four spots 
situate two on each claval margin near apex, obscure dull luteous; apex of corium margining the 
euneus, and inner margin of cuneus ochraceous, the base of the last somewhat reddish; membrane 
fuscous, its apical margins somewhat paler; the corium is narrowly at inner margin and broadly at apex 
of claval margins dark velvety fuscous; legs dull obscure luteous, femora more or less distinctly biannu- 
lated with fuscous, the tibiae somewhat pale fuscous; antenne fuscous, apex of second joint luteous. 
Body beneath (imperfectly examined owing to the specimen being carded) fuscous; head, coxe, and 
abdomen luteous, the last with a submarginal longitudinal series of fuscous spots. 
The body is broad, and, excluding head and posterior margin of pronotum, very coarsely punctate, the 
lateral angles of the pronotum are non-prominent but obtusely acute, and the anterior lobe or gibbous 
portion is profoundly sulcated. * 
Long. 63 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
A single specimen only of this species was found by Mr. Champion. 
5. Valdasus erebeus, n. sp. 
Body above black ; head either black with the eyes testaceous, or pale fuscous with the eyes dark fuscous ; apex 
of scutellum, a very small spot at basal margin, and a large subquadrate spot about centre of lateral 
margin, and inner apical margins (narrowly) of corium luteous; near and following claval apex, on each 
side of corium, is a large dark velvety spot; cuneus either testaceous with the basal margin luteous, or 
luteous with the disk testaceous, its apex fuscous; femora luteous, biannulated with fuscous, their apices 
and the tibize and tarsi more or less fuscous ; antenne pale fuscous, base of first and apex of second joint 
pale luteous. Body beneath black; head, coxe, and about four annulating fascie to abdomen (apparently 
fused on disk) luteous. 
Pronotum and corium coarsely punctate, the scutellum subglobose and finely punctate; lateral pronotal angles 
rounded ; corium deeply sinuate near centre. 
Long. 5 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
This species is allied to V. funebris, but differs by its smaller size, different markings, 
pronotal angles rounded and not obtusely acute, anterior area of pronotum not pro- 
foundly sulcated, &c. 
6. Valdasus cerbereus, n. sp. 
Allied to the preceding species, but smaller and paler, being dark castaneous in hue; antenne very long and 
slender; spots to scutellum and corium very obscure or almost entirely obsolete, the subquadrate central 
