GYPONA. 311 
In facies this species very closely resembles G. notanda, but it may be easily known 
by the shape of the head, if viewed from the side. We figure a specimen from 
Caldera. — 
42. Gypona decorata, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. figg. 16, 16a, 3.) 
Robusta, sat lata, parallela, fusco- brunneo- albido- testaceo- rufo-variegata ; capite brevi, haud producto, 
antice rotundato, utrinque depresso, ocellis inter se quam ab oculis longius remotis ; pronoto sat longo, 
hoc et capite vitté media irregulari longitudinali fuscata instructo ; scutello fusco, rufo-notato; tegmi- 
nibus parallelis, variegatis ; pedibus testaceis, ad partem fuscis et rufis. 
Mas segmento ultimo ventrali prelongo, fere recto. Femina ignota. 
A stout, subparallel, rather broad species, variegated with shades of brown, yellow, reddish, whitish, &c. ; 
head short, rounded in front, with the ocelli further removed from one another than from the eyes, and 
with an irregular, more or less interrupted, dark longitudinal band, which is continued along the pro- 
notum ; scutellum large, rugosely punctured, dark brown, with rufescent spots before and behind, the 
latter being the most conspicuous ; tegmina subparallel, brown, with whitish or testaceous-white markings, 
the most conspicuous being four irregular spots (two on each side at the margins) and a regular row of 
three on each near the suture, the apex whitish; underside reddish, with part of the segments black ; 
legs testaceous, variegated with red and fuscous. 
Male with the last abdominal segment long. Female unknown. 
Long. 10 millim.; lat. ad hum. 4 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
43. Gypona vinula. (Tab. XXI. fige. 17, 17a, 4, 2.) 
Gypona vinula, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 81°. 
Hab. Muxico 1 (Sallé), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
The female of G. vinula was unknown to Stal; it has the last ventral segment 
sinuate at the apex on both sides and strongly, though narrowly, excised in the 
middle. 
Var. ornata, n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 18, 2.) 
Capite pronotoque miniato fusco-virescenti variegato, punctis quatuor parvis nigris prope marginem apicalem 
dispositis. 
In this variety the head and pronotum are orange-scarlet, with brownish-green markings; on the front of the 
pronotum there are four distinct small black spots (the type-form usually has two, but sometimes four are 
present); the characters of the female are identical with those of the typical G. vinula. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
One female specimen. 
44. Gypona propior, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fige. 19, 194, 4, 2.) 
G. vinule valde affinis, sed pronoto immaculato et formatione ultimi segmento ventrali femine distinguenda. 
Mas segmento ultimo penultimo multo longiori levissime roundato. 
Femina margine ultimo segmento ventrali fere recto, vix sinuato, haud ad medium emarginato vel: exciso. 
Closely allied to G. vinula, and only to be distinguished with certainty by the form of the last ventral segment 
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