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margins; inesonotum siibequilateral, with the anterior angle produced 

 over the liead, with the hiteral margins carried back in a small simis 

 which is followed behind by a larger sinus, the edge carinated, the 

 middle line and a diagonal line each side of it strongly carinated, scutel- 

 lum triangular, curved upward. Wing-covers very moderately widen- 

 ing toward the apex, a little concave on the posterior margin, clouded 

 with pale brown, the i)terostigma orange, dark brown at base and apex, 

 and a smaller orange and l)rown spot on the oi)posite (hind) border, a 

 subdeltoid spot on apical border connected behind with other dark- 

 brown patches, and preceded next the costa by a brown arc, basal third 

 of wing cover with several flexed, pale-brown marks, veins dotted Avith 

 brown; wings smoke brown, paler at base, veins darker. Abdomen 

 bordered and banded with yellow. 



Length to end of abdomen, 5-0 mm. Expanse of wing- covers, 

 lo-lG mm. 



Ty2)e.—^o. 3131, U.S.KM. 



Four specimens of different sizes and varying mai-kings are in the 

 collection. 



MYNDUS APICALIS, new species. 



Form normal, ground color blackish brown, dull. Vertex moder- 

 ately narrow, a little wider behind, with yellow carinate margins, and 

 the base acutely enuirginated and upturned on the apex of the emar- 

 gination; eyes large, round, bordered by a carina around the socket; 

 front wide, broadest in the middle, with a carinate middle line which 

 is paler and continued to the apex of the clypeus, the lateral margins 

 fulvous, carinately reflexed; rostrum dull testaceous, piceous at tip, 

 leaching to the posterior coxa\ Pronotum luirrow, carried triangularly 

 upon the grooved vertex, the margins fulvous; mesonotum with live 

 fulvous carinate lines, rather close together; the scutellum testaceous, 

 bluntly triangular. Legs fulvo- testaceous, darker at ends of femora and 

 tibiie. Wing-covers milky-whitish, or yellowish, two specimens dusky 

 at tip, veins brown toward the apex, with 'dark brown ends to the 

 apical ones, and five cross streaks on the bases of the apical areoles, 

 costal area crossed by a single stout vein; wings Avith the veins darker 

 at tip, and sometimes with a wide dark suftusion at that point. Legs 

 dusky yellowish, the femora darker. Abdomen brownish black, de- 

 l)ressed, covered at tip with cottony Avhite secretion. 



Length to tip of abdomen, 4 mm.; Avidth of mesonotum, li mm,; 

 length to tip of wing-covers, C-7 mm, 



T,/pe.—:So. 311il, T^.S.N.M. 



Five specimens are present in the collection. 



CATONIDIA, ne^Tv genus. 



Form of Achilu.s, Kirby; vertex short, transverse, carinated, curved, 

 but little raised above the level of eyes, carinated on all the borders, 

 the front long wedge-shaped, Avith a middle carina percurrent to tip 



