202 HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
from Xucumanatlan has the markings different, the callosities larger, and the apical 
half of the tegmina less transparent ; it may belong to another species. 
A specimen from Teapa is figured. 
7. Clastoptera flavivitta, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 21.) 
Oblonga, parallela, nitida, capite antice metopidioque rufo-flavis, hoe vitta transversali nigra ; pronoto fere 
levi; scutello, apice excepto, flavo; tegminibus piceis vel piceo-brunneis, distincte punctatis, basi 
anguste flava, coloreque ad marginem ante medium et ad apicem dilutiori; abdomine nigro ; pedibus 
flavis, ad partem piceis. 
A small, oblong, parallel, shining species, with the fore part of the head reddish-yellow ; pronotum nearly smooth, 
with very slight traces of rugose lines ; scutellum, except the apex, light yellow; tegmina pitchy-brown 
or black-brown, with a light patch at the margin behind the shoulders, and with the base light yellow in 
a line with the breadth of the yellow colour of the scutellum, the whole forming a transverse yellow band 
across the body immediately behind the pronotum; underside black; legs, cox, and part of the _ 
chest yellow, posterior legs more or less pitchy. 
Long. 3-33 millim.; lat. 2 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerdénimo and Purula in Vera Paz (Champion). 
We figure a specimen from Purula. 
8. Clastoptera dimidiata, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 22.) 
Oblonga, nigra, nitidiuscula, capite, pronoto, scutello, apice excepto, maculaque utrinque magna ad basim 
clavi lete flavis; pronoto fere levi, lineis transversis indistinctis; clavo leviter, corio vix punctato, fere 
glabro, macula hyalina ad marginem sub medium; corpore subtus nigro, coxis piceis; pedibus nigris, 
tarsis posticis partim testaceis. 
An oblong and rather shining species, with the head, pronotum (except a very small patch at the extreme 
angle behind the eyes), scutellum (except the extreme apex), and a large patch near the base of 
the clavus, bright yellow; the actual base of the clavus and the rest of the tegmina, except a hyaline 
patch at the margins and one or two marks over the apex, are black; clavus lightly punctured; corium 
almost glabrous; the usually black callosity at the apex of each tegmen is present, but is merged into 
part of the coriaceous portion ; legs black, the anterior and intermediate tibizs with two yellow spots and 
the posterior tarsi partly testaceous. 
Long. 43 millim.; lat. max. vix 3 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500-4000 feet (Champion). 
9. Clastoptera obtusa. (Tab. XII. figg. 23; 24, var.) 
Cercopis obtusa, Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. iv. p. 339 (1824) '; Complete Writings, ii. p. 256°. 
Clastoptera achatina, Germ. Zeitschr. fiir Ent. i. p. 187°. 
Hab. Norru America, Canada, United States }2%—Muxico, Omilteme in Guerrero 
8000 feet (H. H. Smith); Guavemata, San Gerdénimo and Tactic in Vera Paz, 
Panajachel (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This is a rather large oblong species, and varies considerably in colour, some 
specimens being light and others dark brown mottled with testaceous, while others 
again have the ground-colour quite black. It is allied to C. lenata, but is twice 
the size. 
