82 - HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
genus I have examined: Fairmaire gives the proper number as one, and Stal (Ofv. 
Kongl. Vet.-Ak. Férh. xxiv. p. 559) as two; but in a specimen of D. nigroapica in the 
Royal Belgian Museum collection there are three on one tegmen and two on the other, 
the central basal area being divided by a well-marked vein at about the middle, this 
probably accounting for the discrepancy between Fairmaire and Stal. 
1. Darnoides affinis, sp. n. (Tab. VI. figg. 14, 14 a, 6.) 
Parvus, flavo-testaceus, apice pronoti pectoreque nigris ; pronoto haud nitido, dense et distincte punctato, a dorso 
viso fere sequali, vel antice leviter rotundato-elevato, apice longo acuto; tegminibus fere totis intectis, ad 
basin punctatis, hyalinis, venis testaceis, apicem versus brunneis; abdomine pedibusque testaceis, femo- 
ribus ad partem nigris. | 
Entirely testaceous, or sometimes apparently with a greenish tinge, which is probably more apparent in life, 
with the apex of the pronotum and the breast black; pronotum dull, closely and distinctly punctured, if 
viewed from the side almost straight, or slightly rounded and elevated in front, the apex produced into a 
long acute process, the central line distinct ; tegmina large, almost entirely uncovered, hyaline, with the 
veins testaceous, brown towards the apex; abdomen and legs testaceous; ovipositor of female black. 
Long. cum tegm. 53-6 millim. ; lat. int. hum. 3 millim. ° 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, El Reposo (Cham- 
pion); Panama, David in Chiriqui (Champion). 
This insect is closely allied to D. brunnea, Fairm. (Smilia brunnea, Germ. Rev. Ent. 
Silb. iii. p. 308), from Brazil; the latter, however, appears to be larger and more 
shining, but the descriptions given are so meagre that it is difficult to determine it. 
The specimens placed under the name D. brunnea in the Royal Belgian Museum have 
each of them a narrow black band across the pronotum at the shoulders, and the veins 
of the tegmina lighter and less distinct ; but Germar says nothing about the black 
band, and the specimens referred to should probably be assigned to a new species. 
A specimen from E] Reposo is figured. 
SCAPHULA. 
Scaphula, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. sér. 2, iv. p. 494 (1846). 
The species described below I had originally referred to a new genus near Darnoides, 
and described it as the type, but on examining Fairmaire’s figures of the tegmina 
(7. ¢. t. 7) I found that his fig. 19 gave a very fair representation of the tegmina of the 
species, although it certainly did not in any way (as I had before noticed) represent the 
tegmina of Acutalis, to which Fairmaire assigns the illustration in his table (J. ¢. 
p. 530) ; on comparing the description it was evident that Fairmaire had made an error 
in his numbering of the figures, and that fig. 19 must be referred to Scaphula, and fig. 20 
to Acutalis *. The description of the genus given by Fairmaire is very meagre, but I 
* As the figures of the tegmina on this plate of Fairmaire’s (op. cit. t. 7) are in a great state of confusion, 
as St&l in part has noticed (Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. Band viii. 1, p. 21, note), it may be as well to correct 
them fully, as they are at. present most misleading. Fig. 5 (Tragopa) and fig. 15 (Darnoides) are correct, as 
also is fig. 18 (Acutalis) ; the latter figure, however, answers to my genus Micrutalis; fig. 9, assigned by 
