SIRTHENEA.—POTHEA. 221 
Hab. Nortu America, United States 12, Carolina 89 1011 14 15 16 Texas and California !’. 
—Mexico 111317 (Mus. Vind. Ces.), Jalapa (Hége), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; 
Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu (Rogers).—CoLomBia; Gutana, Cayenne 234, Surinam! 5 1°; 
Brazin 6111518; Argentine Repusiic®; ANTILLES, Grenada ’. 
Of this conspicuous species I have seen six fully-developed specimens, including both 
sexes, from Mexico, and a female nymph from Costa Rica; the latter has small ocelli. 
It varies in the colour of the legs, all the Central-American examples examined having 
the outer half of the femora more or less infuscate. 
Subfam. ECTRICHODIIN AL. 
The species of this subfamily are chiefly tropical, and the majority of them inhabit 
the Old World; of the six American genera, three only are represented within our 
limits. | 
POTHEA. 
Pothea, Amyot et Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hémipt. p. 344 (1843); Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. xvi. 
pp. 176, 184 (1859) ; Hemipt. Afr. 11. p. 102; Enum. Hemipt. ii. pp. 101, 103, and iv. p. 48. 
An American genus, ranging from the United States to the Argentine Republic; 
eight species have been described *, one only of which enters our limits, whence three 
others are now added. They differ from the allied forms in having the post-ocular 
portion of the head more or less elongated and cylindrical behind. ‘The antenne are 
8-jointed, as in the genus ctrichodia. These insects appear to be rarely found, six 
specimens only, representing four species, having been seen from Central America. 
Head longer than the pronotum, the neck-like basal portion stout, the ante- 
ocular portion comparatively long and convex. 
Head, and the pronotum and legs partly, rufo-testaceous; elytra with the 
sides of the corium rufo-testaceous at the base . . . . . . . . . Oivittata, n. sp. 
Head, pronotum, and legs brassy-black ; elytra entirely black . . . . . Jugens, Fabr. 
Head about as long as the pronotum, the neck-like basal portion slender, the 
ante-ocular portion short; the head and pronotum brassy-black, the tibiz 
with a flavous ring ; elytra with the sides of the corium reddish at the base. annulipes, n. sp. 
Head slightly shorter than the pronotum, the neck-like basal portion, as well as 
the ante-ocular portion, comparatively short; elytra with the sides of the 
corium to beyond the middle flavescent . . . . . . . . - ~~ « maculata, n. sp. 
1. Pothea bivittata, n. sp. (Tab. XIII. fig. 13, 2.) 
¢@. Elongate, broadly obovate, shining; black, the head, except at the sides beneath, the pronotum with the 
sides broadly and a broad median vitta on the anterior lobe, extending on to the posterior lobe (leaving 
two sinuous black vitte: on the anterior lobe and a large black patch on the disc of the posterior lobe), 
* P. centralis, Walk. = P. lugens (Fabr.); P. reciproca, Walk. = P. enescens, Stal. 
