PARMULA. 91: 
This species is also very variable in colour, but the colours are much more sombre, 
varying from black to brown, with a small oblique, sometimes straight, light stripe on 
each side behind the middle, touching, or nearly touching, the margins, and often with 
the central portion of the prothorax from the front of the metopidium to the middle, or 
sometimes almost to the apex, broadly testaceous, the testaceous colour occasionally 
prevailing ; the upper surface is shiny and rather strongly pubescent, and somewhat 
variably, but as a rule distinctly, and more or less strongly punctured. 
I have had some difficulty in identifying the above, and cannot be sure whether I 
am right, as I have not seen types, and Stal’s description of the species (J. ¢. p. 30) is 
somewhat misleading. Fairmaire (J. c. supra, t. 7. fig. 10) figures an insect as Horiola 
biguttata, which evidently belongs to this or the succeeding species; he does not, 
however, notice this insect in the text, but on p. 491 he describes a species as 
Parmula bistrigata which evidently fits the figure, and the description corresponds to 
the insect here noticed as belonging to P. reticulata, which Stal regards as synonymous 
with P. bistrigata. On the same plate Fairmaire figures a species as Holiola (sic) 
gibbula which he describes in the text as Parmula gibbula, so that it is almost certain 
that he has made a second mistake, and that the names Horiola biguttata and Parmula 
bistrigata refer to one and the same species. 
3. Parmula distinguenda, sp. n. (Tab. VI. figg. 21, 21a, 8.) 
Precedenti affinis, sed major, minus nitida, multo densius subrugose punctata; capite pronotoque nigris, illo 
marginibus plerumque peranguste albidis, hoc ad humeros anguste albo-marginato, vitta albidd, trans- 
versé, haud obliqua, utrinque ad marginem, sepe in dorso confluente ; corpore subtus pedibusque fuscis. 
Allied to the preceding, but larger and more elongate and parallel, and much duller, very closely and 
subrugosely punctured, and, as a rule, scarcely shining; head rather large, usually very narrowly 
margined with white; the margins of the pronotum at the shoulders are also narrowly bordered with 
the same colour, and just behind the middle there is a straight white band stretching right across from 
side to side, which is sometimes broken, and forms two shorter bands extending from the margins; central 
line rather distinct ; underside and legs fuscous. 
Long. 5 millim.; lat. int. hum. 2 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo, 
R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); GuaTeMaLA, Panima, Teleman, and Cubilguitz in Vera 
Paz (Champion). Oo 
The examples of this species are much more uniform in colour than those belonging 
to P. reticulata, and the size, shape, and sculpture will serve to distinguish them. 
We figure a specimen from the River Sarstoon, British Honduras. | 
4, Parmula prominens. 
Tragopa prominens, Walk. List of Homopt. Ins., Suppl. p. 151°. 
» Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion).—AMazons, Santarem 1. 
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