B44 HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
A very small, rather shiny, yellowish-green species, with the head not produced, truncate; fromthe vertex to 
the scutellum there is a fine red central line; tegmina short and broad, broader behind, with the larger 
veins well marked, but with the reticulation indistinct ; the costal margin has a dark brown spot behind 
the middle, and from this extends a rather broad brown border round the truncate apical margin and for 
about a third of the costal margin; the exterior angles are rounded, and the interior angle is almost a 
right angle; legs testaceous. 
Long. 6 millim.; lat. ad hum. 2 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
One specimen. This is a very distinct species, and although our specimen is a bad 
one, yet it is easily recognizable by the above description. The small size, the red line 
on the front parts, and the brown border of the apical portion of the tegmina can hardly 
fail to distinguish it. 
9. Flata conspersa. (Tab. VII. figg. 17, 17 a:) 
Peciloptera conspersa, Walk. Ins. Saunders., Homopt. p. 517. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Amazons, Parad}; Perv. 
The single specimen in our collection is of a lighter colour than is usual with this 
species, and has the black markings continued for a less space on the tegmina. The 
species is a large one, with the tegmina arranged for more or less of their length with 
rows of black spots and lines (the costal row being more linear), these becoming fainter 
as they are further removed from the base. The head is not produced and is elevated 
at the sides, and the pronotum is longer than the vertex; the scutellum is faintly 
carinate; the tegmina are large, broadest just before the apex, the apex being furnished 
with regular rows of raised lines, and the space before these being finely and regularly 
reticulate; the wings are milky-white, with distinct and widely separated veins. 
This insect, at first sight, appears to be’'an Ormenis, as the raised lines before the 
apical raised lines are very straight and regular, but on a closer examination it will be 
found that all the lines in the second row are divided by transverse nervures, which 
thus form a regular reticulated series of small squares ; it is possible that F. conspersa 
ought to be referred to a separate genus. | 
‘There is a very fine Flata in our collection, with an expanse of wing of about 
40 millim., labelled “‘ Santa Clara Vall.” Alt. 1200 ft. Costa Rica, F. A. Zurcher. It 
has the tegmina fawn-colour, shaded with white, with a greenish tinge on the costa, 
and with two small black spots on the disc, which are traversed by red veins ; the wings 
are milky-white ; the head is not produced; the interior angles of the tegmina were 
plainly curved and produced acutely, but the whole apical margin is broken off, and 
as, besides this, the colour is plainly very much faded, it would be only misleading to 
mame the insect, which evidently belongs to an undescribed species. 
