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cies, but has narrower and more pointed tegmina, and in ad- 

 dition appears less rugose of pronotum. It bore no number. 



Ommexecha servillei Blanchard. 



This insect is represented by both sexes which are numbered 

 394. They are typical. 



Amblytropidia robusta Bruner. 



A single female specimen of this species is at hand. It is 

 of a uniformly dark color and bears the number 728. 



Elaeochlora viridicata (Serville). 

 A single male specimen bearing the number 399 is referred 



here. 



Diponthus crassus n. sp. 



A comparatively small, but very robust species without 

 banded hind femora in which the base and disk of the wings 

 are flavous or hyaline instead of red or roseate. 



Head short and deeply set into the anterior edge of the pronotum, 

 about as wide as high ; the vertex broad, nearly as wide as the short- 

 est diameter of one of the eyes, the fastigium depressed, widely and 

 shallowly sulcate, the surface sparsely punctate; frontal costa grad- 

 ually merged into the vertex and at its upper extremity nearly as 

 wide, gradually narrowing below, deeply sulcate at ocellus and below, 

 nearly plane above but provided with a few scattered punctures. An- 

 tennae with the segments flattened or compressed nearly or quite one- 

 half longer than the combined length of the head and pronotum 22- 

 jointed. Pronotum expanding but little posteriorly, the anterior lobe 

 coarsely and the hind one densely and deeply punctulate, the two lobes 

 about equal in length, the transverse sulci, especially the hind ones, pro- 

 found ; anterior edge roundly emarginate at middle, the hind margin of 

 disk widely and roundly angulate. Tegmina and wings somewhat abbre- 

 viated, not quite reaching the apex of the abdomen or the tips of the 

 hind femora, the veins and veinlets testaceous and the background 

 dull black. Hind femora rather slender their lower sulcus inner side 

 and outer disk together with the genicular lunules black or piceous. 

 Hind tibiae 9-11 ?pined externally and 14 spined internally, the lower 

 and inner faces infuscated, externally and above dark vinaceous. Pros- 

 ternal spine large compressed, straight, the apex rounded. Interspace 

 between the mesosternal lobes wider than the lobes themselves. 



General color dull brunneo-piceous, the frontal costa, vertex, a 

 line on occiput and middle of pronotum to its apex testaceous; pos- 



