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brown spots, and near the apex with clusters of brown spots arranged in 

 curves, more dense at the upper outer angle, before the middle more 

 faintly marked with brown streaks and dots. Two of the middle apical 

 areoles long triangular, most of the others subquadrangular. Abdomen 

 wide. Femora and tibiae dull ^testaceous, clouded with brown, the tarsi 

 banded with brown, the nails piceous. 9- 



Length to tip of abdomen 4 mm. To apex of closed wing-covers 5? 

 mm. Width of mesonotum ij mm. 



One female from Hayti, and another is in the collection of Mr. 

 E. D. Ball, obtained near Port au Prince in February. 



D'lV. DlCTYOPHORIDA. 

 Tangyria, new genus. 



Head semicircular, blunt edged above, the vertex depressed in the mid 

 dle and marked therewith a triangular carinate line, front about one and a 

 half times as long as wide, obliquely widening towards the clypeus, the 

 middle line bluntly carinated and the carina interrupted at the clypeus, the 

 clypeus subequilaterally triangular, not carinate. Pronotum acutely lu 

 nate, set deeply into the head, notched at base, having a blunt carina which 

 is continued back to the scutellum, shield of the mesonotum longer than 

 wide, triangularly rounded in front, the lateral, bounding carinse curv 

 ing and divaricating posteriorly. Pleural piece behind the eye longer 

 than wide, bounded by straight carinae, sulcate, produced in a point be 

 hind. Hemelytra supplied with numerous straight veins, the costal area 

 narrow, caused by numerous oblique veins, membrane with about thirteen 

 series of eight elongated cells, bounded by black cross-veins. Posterior 

 tibiae carinate on the edges, provided with two spines near the middle. 

 T. frontalis, new sp. 



Bright pea green, polished, moderately robust, vertex a little wider than 

 long, the border next the front marked with six black spots, those next 

 the eyes being linear, all placed on a yellow band. Carinate lines of head 

 and notum whitish. Hemelytra moderately long, nearly parallel-sided, 

 the costal margin very slightly curved, membrane about one-third the 

 length of the corium, almost straight across the base, the outer angle 

 acutely produced, cross-veins black, slender, inner angle of apex very 

 slightly rounded. Spines of tibiae and tarsi, and the nails black. 



Length to end of abdomen 5 mm. To tip of hemelytra 8 mm. Width 

 of mesonotum 2% mm. 



One specimen (9) from Port au Prince, Hayti, December, is 

 in the collection of Mr. Elmer D. Ball. 



Tangiopsis, new genus. 



(^ Form similar to Tangia ; the vertex short, almost flat, a little wider 

 than long, curved on the anterior margin, the entire margin carinately 

 raised, and the middle line bluntly carinated ; front about one-half longer 



