300 HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
This insect may be known by the bright red upper surface of the abdomen, the 
infuscate wings, and the deep and narrow triangular emargination of the last ventral 
segment of the female. The apex of the tegmina is often broadly infuscate, a character 
chiefly seen in the male sex, but occasionally present in the female. In the male the 
last ventral segment is about half as long again as the penultimate, and subtruncate at 
the apex. I have compared our specimens with the type of G. fervens, Walk., and 
believe that the synonymy above given is correct; but the latter insect is imperfect 
and without the abdomen, and, under the circumstances, it seems best to use Stal’s 
name instead of Walker’s, which, of course, would otherwise have priority. The 
insect figured is from Atoyac. 
11. Gypona obscurior, sp.n. (Tab. XX. fig. 13, 2.) 
Brunneo-testacea, partibus anticis dilutioribus; capite brevi, lato, oculis prominulis; pronoto in femina plus 
quam duplo, in mari duplo, capite longiori ; tegminibus flavo-brunneis, marginibus dilutis flavescentibus, 
maculis nigris minutis duabus vel quatuor utrinque ad suturam instructis, apice infuscato ; abdomine 
supra flavo-rufo; pedibus testaceis. 
Mas segmento ultimo ventrali penultimo duplo longiori, margine posteriori leviter arcuato. 
Femina segmento ultimo ventrali late emarginato ad medium fortiter lobato. 
Testaceous-brown, with the front parts usually lighter, sometimes yellow ; head short and broad, with prominent 
eyes ; ocelli rather nearer to each other than to the eyes; pronotum more than twice as long as the head 
in the female, about twice as long as it is in the male; tegmina yellowish-brown, with the margins 
yellow and the apex infuscate, and with three or four small black spots on each near the suture ; abdomen 
red, with yellowish sides ; legs yellow-testaceous. 
Male with the last ventral segment of the abdomen twice as long as the penultimate, its posterior margin very 
gently arcuate. 
Female with the last ventral segment of the abdomen broadly emarginate, and with a distinct produced lobe 
in the centre of the emargination. 
Long. 8-9 millim.; lat. ad hum. 3-33 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba and Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion). 
Closely allied to G. signoreti, but differing in its slightly shorter and broader head, 
and in the female characters (which, however, are less marked in the Caldera specimen) ; 
in G. signoreti the last ventral segment is deeply and sharply emarginate in the middle 
in this sex, A specimen from Bugaba is figured. 
12. Gypona puniceiventris, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg. 14, 144, 6, 3.) 
Lata, robusta, brunnea; capite sat magno, subtriangulari, antice obtuse rotundato, ocellis valde approximatis, 
oculis prominulis; pronoto capite distincte latiori sed haud multo longiori, lateribus rotundatis, rugoso ; 
scutello equilaterali acute producto, asperato; tegminibus angustis, venis crassis, sat raro reticulatis, 
interstitiis subtiliter rugosis; alis amplis, hyalinis, venis et basi puniceis; abdomine lato, supra lete 
puniceo, subtus dilute flavo-albescenti ; pedibus testaceis. 
Mas segmento ultimo ventrali penultimo vix longiori, apice levissime excavato-rotundato. Femina ignota. 
A rather large, broad, and robust species, of about the same size as G. schaumi, of a brown or slightly 
castaneous-brown colour, more or less rugose ; head moderately large, subtriangular, obtusely rounded in 
front, with the eyes prominent and the ocelli very much nearer to one another than they are to the eyes ; 
pronotum not much longer than the head and distinctly broader, with the sides rounded, the disc strongly 
