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eyes; eyes very prominent, round and black. Pronotum densely 

 and roughly punctured and lightly ridged with faint percurrent 

 median carina and bearing short porrect horn; this horn sharp, 

 subcorneal, anterior and posterior margins flattened, three or more 

 longitudinal ridges on each side, the middle one sharp and dis- 

 stinct; posterior process long and narrow, gradually acuminate, 

 slightly depressed, extending just to tips of tegmina; humeral 

 angles obtuse, not prominent. Tegmina brown and wrinkled, 

 veins broad and distinct, base and costal area slightly punctate, 

 apical border blackish. Under surface of body black-brown. Legs 

 thick, strong, concolorous ferruginous, slightly pilose; hind tibiae 

 broadly spatulate; hind tarsi very short. 



Type. — Female. 



Length 10 mm., cum corn. 13 mm., width 5 mm. 



Locality. — Bartica, British Guiana. 



Collected Feb. 15, 1913, by Mr. H. S. Parish. 



Subfamily TRAGOPINM. 



11. Tragopa luteimaculata sp. nov. (Fig. 11). 



Near T. humeralis Fairm., but much smaller and differing in 

 colour and in the markings of the prothorax. Easily recognised 

 by the fourteen bright yellow spots which stand out in striking 

 contrast to the beautiful shining black-brown pronotum. 



Nearly twice as long as wide; black-brown with yellow spots; 

 humeral angles rounded ; posterior process acute. Head twice 

 as wide as long; smooth, deep brown with median longitudinal 

 yellow stripe starting between the ocelli and extending to the 

 clypeus; ocelli white, farther from each other than from the eyes; 

 eyes black, narrowly bordered with yellow. Pronotum black- 

 brown; very finely punctured, not pubescent; gradually sloping 

 above head; marked on each side with seven irregular yellow spots, 

 each spot faintly bordered with crimson. These spots are arranged 

 on each side as follows: one between humeral angle and eye; one 

 behind humeral angle; two on lateral margin; two in middle of 

 dorsum nearly touching median line; one very large spot covering 

 entire posterior apex. Posterior process subacute, reaching 

 beyond tips of tegmina. Tegmina black and opaque, more than 



