328 HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 
long, joint 2 stouter and much longer than 3. Pronotum with the sides obliquely converging from the 
base, the anterior angles rounded ; rugosely punctured, the posterior lobe depressed on the disc in front, 
the anterior lobe almost smooth behind. Scutellum transversely rugulose. Elytra with the clavus 
sparsely and very coarsely, and the other parts closely and finely, punctate. Orifice of the metastethium 
very long and curved. 
Length 13 millim. (¢.) 
Hab. GuateMALa, near the city (Champion). 
One specimen. Allied to 7. perpunctatus, but smaller, the pronotum less rugose, 
the clavus sparsely punctured, the corium and embolium much more finely punctate. 
5. Triphleps perpunctatus. 
Triphleps perpynctatus, Reut. Monogr. Anthocorid. p. 100° (nec Uhler). 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé, in Mus. Holm.'), Orizaba (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Duefias 
(Champion). 
The single specimen (2) from Guatemala differs from the type ( ¢ ) in having the 
eyes smaller, the head a little more produced in front, the elytra paler, and the legs 
entirely testaceous; it may belong to another species, The one from Orizaba is 
immature. 
6. Triphleps aterrimus, n. sp. 
Broad ovate, robust, very sparsely pubescent, shining, black ; the apical half of the rostrum, the head in front 
(narrowly), the tarsi, and the anterior tibize testaceous, the intermediate and hind tibiz obscure testaceous 
at the base; the antenne with joint 1 piceous, 2 and 3 testaceous, and 4 ferruginous. Head broad, 
rugulose, the eyes large and widely separated ; antenne rather slender, moderately long, joint 2 a little 
longer than 3. Pronotum convex, feebly arcuate-emarginate at the base, rounded at the sides, the latter 
margined anteriorly ; very coarsely and closely punctured, the anterior lobe almost smooth on the disc 
behind. Scutellum transversely rugulose, and also minutely punctate, the transverse sulcus deep, Elytra 
very coarsely, closely punctate, the punctures on the corium more scattered and. subserially arranged. 
Length 2 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Peha Blanca (Champion). 
One specimen, probably a female. Very like 7. perpunctatus, but uniformly black 
above (the apex of the anterior portion of the head only being pale), the pronotum 
more convex and with the sides rounded, the corium more sparsely punctate. 
PARATRIPHLEPS, n. gen. 
Head very short and broad, the eyes widely separated, the ocelli placed close to their internal basal angles; 
antenne short, the joints about equal in thickness, 2 not longer than the width of the head between the 
eyes. Pronotum convex, deeply arcuate-emarginute at the base, and completely margined at the sides. 
Scutellum transversely depressed before the flattened apical portion. Elytra with the embolium concave, 
and at the apex half the width of the corium. Wings with a hamus in the cell. Orifice of the meta- 
stethium long and curved, Legs short, the anterior femora stouter than the others, Body ovate, almost 
glabrous. 
The minute species referred to this genus, a single female specimen only of which 
