POTHEA.—MINDARUS, 223 
raised transverse prominence, the antenniferous processes very short (not half the length of the eyes), the 
tylus cariniform, the inter-ocular portion flattened and longitudinally sulcate on each side; antenne with 
joint 2 nearly twice as long as 1, 3 longer than 4, 5-8 short and subequal, together as long as 3 and 4 
united. Pronotum smooth, the anterior lobe short; the transverse median sulcus, and the longitudinal 
one on each side near the hind angles, transversely wrinkled, the longitudinal median sulcus interrupted. 
Elytra reaching the apex of the abdomen. Anterior tibie considerably dilated at the tip, and with a 
short spongy fossa beneath. 
Length 12-123, breadth 4-41 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Three specimens. Very like P. enescens, Stal (= reciproca, Walk.), from Brazil, 
but differing from it in having the neck-like basal portion of the head longer and more 
slender, the ocellar tubercle more raised, and the femora annulate. The differently 
formed head will separate it from P. lugens. 
4. Pothea maculata, n. sp. (Tab. XIII. fig. 16, 2.) 
9. Moderately elongate, obovate, shining ; ochreous, the head, pronotum, and scutellum rufo-testaceous, the 
pronotum with two interrupted sinuous black vitte on the disc, these being broad on the posterior lobe 
and narrow on the anterior lobe; the scutellum black at the sides; the elytra fuscous, with the corium 
broadly flavescent at the sides to beyond the middle; the abdomen with the sixth dorsal segment black, 
the connexival segments 3-6 spotted with black along the inner side; the ventral segments each with a 
transverse black fascia on either side in front extending inwards from the black submarginal stripe; the 
pleura and sterna partly black ; the antenne piceous, with the base of the first joint rufo-testaceous; the 
femora with the apex narrowly and a narrow ring beyond the middle fuscous; the tibie fuscous, with a 
broad flavous ring before the middle; the body glabrous, the tarsi and the apices of the tibie pilose, the 
antenne clothed with long projecting hairs, the first joint much more sparsely pilose. Head shorter than 
the pronotum, transversely convex behind the prominent eyes and then abruptly constricted, the neck-like 
basal portion cylindrical and comparatively short, the antenniferous processes about as long as the eyes, 
the inter-ocular portion convex along the middle, the tylus cariniform, the ocellar prominence moderately 
raised ; antenne: with joint 2 a little more than one-half longer than 1, 3 longer than 4 (the others 
broken off). Pronotum with the anterior lobe slightly shorter than the posterior, the sulci transversely 
wrinkled. Scutellar processes somewhat widely separated. LElytra reaching to a little beyond the fifth 
segment, Anterior and intermediate tibie slightly dilated at the apex, and each with a short spongy 
fossa beneath. 
Length 12, breadth 43 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 
One specimen. Differs from the other Central-American species in the comparatively 
short head, as well as in coloration. 
MINDARUS. 
Mindarus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. xvi. pp. 175, 179 (1859); Hemipt. Afr. iii. p. 102; Enum. 
Hemipt. 11. p. 101, and iv. p. 48. 
Daraza, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. xvi. p. 181 (part.). 
The eleven described species of this genus are all from Tropical South America. 
The one now added differs from Ectrichodia in having the antenne 7- (instead of 8-) 
jointed, the pronotum unemarginate at the base, and the anterior and intermediate 
