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brown or obscurely variegated with fuscous and indistinct testaceous patches, or with broad testaceous 
veins at the apex, which are not the true veins, though they follow their course; legs fuscous. 
Long. 33-4 millim. ; lat. int. hum. 13-2 millim. 
Hab. Guarmwata, Panzos and Cubilguitz in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaragua 
(Janson). 
The specimen figured is from Panzos. 
TROPIDASPIS. 
Tropidaspis, Stal, Kongl, Sv. Vet.-Ak. Hand]. Band viii. 1, p. 56 (1869). 
I have not seen the type of this genus [which was formed by Stal for the reception 
of Centrotus carinatus, Fabr. (Syst. Rhyngot. p. 21)], and Dr. Aurivillius informs me 
that it is not represented in the Stockholm Museum. St&l’s description, however, is 
very full, and the insect described below agrees exactly with it, except that he lays 
stress upon the fact that the corium has no discoidal areas, whereas the Panama 
example has two small ones on one side and one on the other. This very fact shows 
that the venation in this example is abnormal ; and as in other respects I shall have to 
copy Stal’s description almost word for word, I have not much doubt in referring our 
insect to this genus. The chief characters appear to be the close approximation of the 
ocelli to the eyes, the raised base of the head, the absence of the pronotal process, and 
the long scutellum, which is strongly carinate behind. 
1. Tropidaspis affinis, sp.n. (Tab. X. figg. 17, 17a.) 
Oblongo-obovata, fusco-ferruginea ; capite nigro, subtiliter punctato, lined centrali angusté, albidi; pronoto 
transverso, ad basin latissimo, antice fortiter angustato, ante scutellum distincte sinuato, dense sat fortiter 
punctato, ferrugineo, obscure fusco-variegato ; scutello fusco, longo, supra tegmina elevato, antice convexo, 
toto carinato, ante apicem late testaceo-vittato ; tegminibus intectis, amplis, ad basin opacis punctatis, 
hyalinis, venis crassis, brunneis ; pedibus testaceis, leviter infuscatis. 
Short and rather broad, oblong-obovate, of a fuscous-ferruginous colour; head black, finely punctured, with a 
longitudinal smooth testaceous line; pronotum transverse, broadest about the base, basal margin about 
twice as broad as the apical margin, rather strongly sinuate before the scutellum, ferruginous, obscurely 
variegated with fuscous in front, and with the apical part of the produced lobe near the eyes testaceous ; 
scutellum fuscous, large and long, convex in front and acutely keeled throughout, with a testaceous band 
before the apex; tegmina entirely exposed, hyaline, with the veins thick and strongly marked, brown, 
the middle ones variegated with testaceous; underside and legs testaceous, more or less fuscous. 
Long. cum tegm. 4 millim.; lat. int, hum, 23 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One female specimen. It is possible that this may be a variety of 7. carinata. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rhynch. Homop., Vol. IT., May 1897. *22 
