l3o Dr. L. Melichar. 



68. Gen. Scarposa Uhler. 



L'hler, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 72 (1895). 



Robust, wing-covers decumbent, nearly twice as long as wide, broadly arcuate 

 frora base to behind the middle, then siniiated and narrower to the apex. Head viewed 

 from above wider than long, the vertex with an excavation which widens anteriorly, 

 each side of this is an indentation bounded exteriorly by the arched carinate margin; 

 cheeks nearly flat, extended widely in front of and below the eyes, grooved above next 

 the reflexed margin, callous next below; front subtrapezoidal, barely wider than long, 

 longitudinally tumid each side, impressed in the middle, grooved against the raised 

 lateral margins, a little sinuated above, with a narrow callosity at the summit; clypeus 

 long, acutely tapering, the margins reflexed, Eyes small, globular, prominent. 

 Antennae short, bluntly rounded at base. Pronotum semicircular, but little longer 

 than the vertex, sinuated at base, with the lateral Aap triangularly produced against the 

 eye. Mesonotum wide, a little wider than long, almost flat, the anterior margin bluntly 

 triangulär; the seides rectangularly triangulär, and posteriorly longer, more converging, 

 and forming a triangle with the short scutellum; the middle line obsoletely carinate, 

 and the margins of the disk thick and set with two callous knobs. Basal margin of 

 clavus convexly inflated, with the submargin carinately crested, and together with the 

 inner margin forming an arch, the clavus behind this tapering narrowly back to the base 

 of the membrane, the surface more or less granulated to near the tip; corium with wide 

 and long areas which are crossed by mostly indistinct reticulations behind the middle, but 

 with distinct oblique and irregulär veins beyond the middle of the postcostal area, veins 

 of the wide costal area numerous and moderatly oblique, almost the entire surface 

 sprinkled with callous granules; veins of the subquadrangular membrane curving in 

 various directions and forming crowded and irregulär cells, the apical series composed 

 of subquadrangular areoles of larger size which are narrower above the middle. Poste- 

 rior tibiae grooved, armed with two stout spines below the middle. Abdomen blunt, 

 subconical. 



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I. Scarposa tumida Uhler. 



Uhler, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 73 (1895). 



General form of Ormenis, but tumid at the base of the wingcovers, with the 

 costal region expanded in a wide curve, greenish. Head above with an obscure brown 

 broad stripe which is carried back upon the mesonotum, the lateral raised margins 

 highly polished, pale fulvous; front with a brown cloud above, pale testaceous below 

 and including the clypeus; rostrum reaching to the posterior coxae. Pronotum 

 greenish yellow on the sides; mesonotum dull testaceous each side, with the two callo- 

 sities dark brown. Beneath and legs tawny yellow. Wing-covers greenish, the inner 

 ridge and margin of the clavus, besides a streak near its tip and the granules near the 

 tip, blackish; corium in the angle behind base of costa, a spot at and broad stripe 

 beyond on the inner area, a broad less distinct band across the middle including the 

 veins, a bent diagonal stripe running back from the lower angle of the apex, the almost 

 truncate margin of the apex, one or two spots near the upper angle, and the granules 

 of the costal area black or dark brown. Outer border of the venter red. 



Length to tip of abdomen 5 — 5^2 ünesj length to tip of wing-cowers 7 — 8 mm. 



St. Vincent. 



