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margin truncated, triangularly produced each side of 

 scutellum. Scutellum long, contracted and sinuated 

 behind the middle, remotely punctate, more finely and 

 densely so before the tip, a large bald spot at each basal 

 angle, apex regularly rounded, the extremity with a 

 yellow lunule. Corium more regularl}^ punctate than the 

 pronotum, with the sutures and costal margin yellow; 

 membrane bronze-brown. Legs pale yellowish, coarsely 

 punctate, the nails and articulations of the tarsi piceous. 

 Length to end of venter 8^ to lo mm. Width across 

 base of wing-covers 4 to 5 mm. 



More than a dozen specimens have been examined by 

 the writer. These were collected in Cuba by Dr. John 

 Gundlach, and in Southern Florida by several of my 

 friends. Some specimens have a brown band on the seg- 

 mental sutures of the connexivum. The tergum is rufous 

 or brownish, and occasionally there is a yellow stripe on 

 the middle line of the pronotum. 



Hynicnarcys crassa, New sp. 

 Ovate, broad and thick, pronotum and head forming a 

 triangle, color pale cinnamon-brown or luteous, closely, 

 finely and deeply punctate with dark brown. Head long 

 and narrow, remotely punctate in lines, the lateral lobes 

 somewhat foliaceous, longer than the tylus, acutely narrow 

 at tip, with the lateral margins slenderh^ black, tylus 

 narrow, cylindrical, very slightly thicker at base ; anten- 

 nae slender, black, the basal joint not quite reaching tip of 

 head, second a little longer, third longest, fourth a very 

 little shorter than the fifth, which is next to the third in 

 length ; rostrum slender, luteous, piceous on the middle 

 line and at tip, reaching to behind the middle coxae. Pro- 

 notum wider than long, convex, the anterior lobe de- 

 pressed, and with several bald spots and spaces behind 

 the anterior border, lateral margins almost directly oblique, 

 strongly reflexed, pale testaceous, carried around the 



