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posterior lobe and there forming an oblique ridge. The antenne have their two basal 
joints pale; the second joint is about one-half longer than the first. The femora are 
strongly asperate. The tibie are without a dark ring at the base. The scutellar 
process is flavous at the tip, and rather stout. 
6. Nalata fuscipennis. (Tab. XII. fig. 2, 3.) 
Nalata fuscipennis, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. p. 80°; Enum. Hemipt. i. p. 120°. 
Rather narrow, ochreous, the sides of the head behind the eyes, the depressed portions of the pronotum, the 
middle of the scutellum, and the elytra (the costal margin at the base excepted) black; the connexivum 
black, with a flavous spot at the apical angles of each segment; the tip of the scutellar process flavous ; 
the two apical joints of the antenne fuscous; the body beneath much mottled with fuscous, the basal 
half of the abdomen almost entirely black; the femora and tibiz more or less annulated with fuscous, 
the posterior tibie pale at the base; the body, legs, and antenne set with long scattered bristly hairs, the 
body and corium also sparsely clothed with short decumbent, curled, ochreous hairs. Head armed above 
with short, subconical tubercles, the ocelli small and not very widely separated; antenne as in NV. spini- 
collis. Pronotum moderately dilated behind ; the anterior lobe armed on each side of the median sulcus 
with two rows of conical tubercles, those of the inner row closely placed and about five in number, and 
with an irregular scattered marginal row of similar tubercles, the four rows on the disc being each con- 
tinued on to the posterior lobe and there forming an oblique ridge; the hind angles obtuse and a little 
swollen. Scutellum with the margins raised and tuberculate, the apical process neither thickened nor 
compressed at the tip. Femora moderately asperate. 
Length 6-63, breadth 2 millim. (d.) 
Hab. Panama, Tolé (Champion).—Co.tomBia, Bogota? ; BraziL, Rio Janeiro} 2, 
Two specimens. Very like WV. rudis, but with the femora less strongly asperate, and 
the anterior lobe of the pronotum with fewer and less regularly arranged tubercles at 
the sides, the tubercles in V. rudis forming a distinct marginal row. In WV. fuscipennis 
the series of five tubercles on each side of the median sulcus are very conspicuous; the 
second row is shorter, and formed by three tubercles; the marginal row is more or 
less irregular. One of Stal’s Colombian examples has been examined. 
7. Nalata setulosa. (Tab. XII. fig. 3,2.) 
Nalata setulosa, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1862, p. 456‘; Enum. Hemipt. ii. p. 120. 
Hab. Mexico}? (Sichel & coll. Signoret, in Mus. Vind. Ces.), Orizaba (Bilimek, in 
Mus. Vind. Cos.); Gvatemata, San Juan and Senahn in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion) ; 
Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Caldera (Champion). 
Found in plenty in Chiriqui. This species varies a good deal in colour, the 
pronotum and scutellum being sometimes almost entirely fuscous. The antenne have 
their first joint pale, and a little more than half the length of the second. ‘The small 
setiferous, scattered, conical tubercles on the disc of the pronotum are so arranged as 
to form two series on each side of the broad median sulcus, these being each continued 
as an oblique carina on the anterior portion of the posterior lobe. The scutellum has 
the margins raised and tuberculate; the apical process is compressed and slightly 
