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castaneous bands; the apex is also marked with darker colour, and the veins are distinct, with strong 
granulations throughout ; abdomen more or less pitchy; legs light testaceous. 
Long. cum tegm. 6 millim.; lat. ad hum. 14-2 millim. ( 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Sierra Madre Mountains (coll. Ball). 
Two specimens. This species is closely allied to C. montanus, but it is smaller, and 
hhas the vertex of the head more produced and rounded in front, the frontal ocellus less 
distinct, and the tegmina shorter and more dilated behind the shoulders; the granu- 
lations, moreover, of the veins are stronger. 
3. Cixius flavo-brunneus, sp.n. (Tab. X. figg. 27, 27a, 6, 3.) 
Capite brevi, vertice transverso, excavato, ante oculos paullo producto; ocello frontali distincto; fronte, pronoto 
et scutello flavo-brunneis, hoc perdistincte tricarinato; tegminibus subpellucidis, flavo-brunneis, haud 
maculatis; abdomine flavescenti; pedibus testaceis, femoribus ad partem infuscatis. . 
Mas segmento ultimo ventrali emarginato, processu angusto mediali, stylisque magnis latis securiformibus. 
Of a yellowish-brown colour, with the vertex transverse, excavate, produced before the eyes; frontal ocellus 
very distinct; pronotum short; scutellum smooth, distinctly tricarinate; tegmina subpellucid, yellowish- 
brown, without spots on the disc, the veins testaceous, with strong fuscous granulations, the transverse ones 
also marked with fuscous; abdomen yellowish; legs testaceous. 
Male with the last ventral segment emarginate, with a distinct median process, and with large broad securi- 
form styles. 
Long. cum tegm. 7 millim.; lat. ad hum. 23 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
4, Cixius apicatus, sp.n. (Tab. X. figg. 28, 28 a.) 
Quoad colorem staturamque precedenti affinis, sed vertice breviori, haud excavato, ante oculos haud producto, 
ocello frontali indistincto vel deficiente, et apicibus tegminum et alarum fuscis, facile distinguendus. 
Of the same colour and almost the same size as the preceding, but with the vertex of the head shorter, not 
excavate and not produced before the eyes; frontal ocellus indistinct, but visible under a high power; 
tegmina shining, transparent, yellowish-brown, widened in the middle, with the apex and a patch or two 
before it fuscous, the granulations distinct, the transverse veins not especially marked; apex of wings 
infuscate; legs testaceous, 
Long. cum tegm. 64 millim.; lat. ad hum. 2 millim. ( 9.) 
Hab. Guatemata, Senahu and San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Two specimens, 
HAPLAXIUS, gen. nov. 
Capite modico, subrotundato, vertice latitudine evidenter longiori, ad basim haud emarginato, ante oculos haud 
vel vix producto, levi; fronte fere eque longa ac lata, subrotundata, a clypeo sulco sat profundo separata, 
hoc ad latera carinato ; ocello frontali interdum vix distincto; pronoto brevi; scutello tricarinato, carinis 
plerumque indistinctis; tegminibus pellucidis, haud vel vix evidenter vel delicatissime granulatis, vena 
radiali et vend ulnari interiori paullo pone medium equidistanter furcatis, areis apicalibus novem vel 
decem ; tibiis simplicibus. 
Head subrotundate, with the vertex long and smooth, and not emarginate at the base, and not or scarcely 
produced before the eyes; forehead about as long as broad, roughly subrotundate, separated from the 
clypeus by a distinct furrow, clypeus carinate at the sides; pronotum short; scutellum with three 
