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which from this point are clear red ; underside and legs bluish-eneous, with the margins of the abdomen, 
cox, knees, apex of the tibie, and underside of the tarsi red or reddish. 
Long. 19 millim.; lat. max. 9 millim. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). 
3. Tomaspis insignita, sp.n. (Tab. XI. figg. 4, 4a.) 
Preecedenti similis, sed paullo minor et magis ovata, colore notarum lete miniato, distinctiori; fronte, pronoto 
et corpore subtus ut in 7. semimaculatd, tegminibus nigro-cupreis, marginibus lete rufis, tribus maculis 
utrinque marginem attingentibus, disco a basi usque ad partem apicalem reticulato-rugosam maculis 
quibusdam longitudinaliter obliquis ornato. 
A little smaller than the preceding, and somewhat more ovate, with the tegmina dark cupreous, very finely 
sculptured, with the margins, three spots on each side touching the margins, and irregular oblique 
markings towards the base and on the disc bright scarlet; metopidium compressed and produced; pro- 
notum at its widest part about as long as broad; legs dark, with the coxe, apex of the tibie, and claws 
scarlet. 
Long. 17 millim.; lat. max. 8 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 
There is a fair series of this handsome species in our collection, all from one 
locality. 
4. Tomaspis quatuordecim-notata, sp.n. (Tab. XI. figg. 5, 5a.) 
Lata, subovata, fronte, pronoto et corpore subtus ut in precedenti; tegminibus nigro-cupreis, marginibus 
ad apicem reticulato-rugosam rufis, et quatuordecim maculis distinctis rufo-flavis, quatuor ad basin, 
sex irregulariter dispositis ad medium, et quatuor ante partem apicalem lineatim dispositis, 
ornatis. 
Rather broad, subovate ; metopidium compressed and produced; pronotum at its widest rather broader than 
long ; tegmina dark cupreous, very closely sculptured, dull, with fourteen very distinct orange spots— 
two on each tegmen at the base, three in a reversed triangle about the middle, and two in a line before 
the apex, the side-spots just touching the margins; legs dark, with the coxe, knees, apex of the tibie, 
and more or less of the tarsi, rufescent. 
Long. 18 millim.; lat. max. 9 millim. 
Hab. Nicaracva, Chontales (Janson). 
5. Tomaspis quadriguttata. 
Sphenorhina quadriguttata, Walk. List of Homopt. Ins. iii. p. 689°. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson }, in Mus. Brit.).—Amazons, Para (Mus. Brit.). 
This species is smaller than the preceding, but appears to be allied to it. It is not 
- represented in our collection. 
6. Tomaspis stygia, sp.n. (Tab. XI. figg. 6, 6a.) 
Lata, sat parallela, fronte (carina metopidii acute producti lateribusque ante oculos rufis exceptis), pronoto, 
scutello et abdomine nigro-ce#ruleis, tegminibus nigro-eneis immaculatis; abdomine pedibusque ceruleis, 
illo maculis quibusdam ad latera rufis, his ad partem rufescentibus. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rhynch. Homop., Vol. II., May 1897. *23 
