28 HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
Hah. Mexico?4 (Sallé), Cuesta de Misantla and San Lorenzo near Cordova 
(M. Trujillo), Atoyac in Vera Cruz and Jaliseo (Schwmann), Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith); Guatemata, San Juan and Purula in Vera Paz, El Tumbador, Cerro 
Zunil, San Isidro, Zapote (Champiow); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Caldera, 
Tolé (Champion).—Sovutu America, Bogota ®, Demerara !, Savannah ?. 
The series of this species in our collection is almost certainly the largest that has 
ever been obtained, and consists of more than one hundred examples. ‘There is a 
considerable amount of variation, especially in the formation of the apex of the 
anterior process, which, as a rule, appears to be more or less knobbed in the males and 
bifid in the females; this is not, however, a universal rule, for it is sometimes almost 
simple in both sexes, and in the case of two males before me from the same locality 
one is slightly bifid and the other has a very large knob. The posterior process also 
differs in being narrower or broader, and more or less porrect, especially in the males ; 
in fact, a series of males from Bugaba, Panama, might almost be formed into a new 
species on this character, but the females appear to be quite normal. 
S. claviger of Stal, of which there is a single male specimen (without abdo- 
men) from Mexico in Signoret’s collection, is a rather large and robust brownish 
variety of this species, of which there are several larger and more representative speci- 
mens in our series from San Geronimo, Guatemala; if they stood alone they might be 
regarded as distinct, but intermediate forms render it plain that they can, at the most, 
be only counted a variety, and I feel no doubt but that Stal’s S. apicalis must also 
be sunk as a synonym of S. ballista. 
The anterior process in the female is often much longer than in the males, and is 
much waved if viewed from above; this never, or only in a very slight degree, appears 
to be the case with the males. 
Mr. Champion captured two specimens in cop.; if the segments of the circles almost 
formed by the pronotum in each case were completed, they would in this position 
present nearly an exact figure of 8. 
We figure examples from Atoyac (fig. 18), Teapa (fig. 19), and San Gerdnimo’ 
(fig. 20). 
2. Sphongophorus (Lecythifera) championi, sp.n. (Tab. III. figg.1, 1a.) 
S. balliste affinis; niger vel brunneo-niger ; pronoto antice punctato, processu antico et postico reticulatis ; 
processu antico teretiori plus minusve alte curvato, usque vel fere ad apicem processus dorsalis extenso, 
clava sat magna, supra visa subtriangulari, instructo ; processu postico apicem tegminum vix attingenti, 
ad finem in processum brevem, crassum, reflexum producto, pone medium processu erecto armato, hoc 
clavo lato, postice extenso, plus minusve malleiformi terminato; tegminibus punctatis, nigris, apicem 
versus fusco-brunneis, macula hyalind marginali sub basi processus intermedii siti; pedibus testaceis 
vel fusco-testaceis. 
Black or brownish black, with the anterior process of the pronotum rather slender and curved behind until it 
is almost in a line with the apex of the tegmina, widened at its apex into a subtriangular club; the posterior 
prolongation extends nearly to the apex of the tegmina, ending in a short, thick, reflexed process, 
