2 82 BEMIPTEEA OF J J PA X— VHL Ell. 



of (•lyi)eus, and divided by the transverse suture, tlie lateral margins 

 strongly retiexed, a little curved, rostrum slender, longer than the face 

 and clypens together, cheeks deeply sunken throughout, cnrved, acutely 

 tapering; antenna' second joint subglobose, a little longer than wide, 

 the following Joints very slender, setaceous. Pronotum nearly twice 

 as long as the vertex, with the anterior shield lunate, the sides beyond 

 this curving, einling triangularly, and bounded by a thick carina, the 

 lateral ria])S snnill, subtrai)ezoidal, curved on the lower margin; mes- 

 onotum ample, a little widcithan h)ng. triangular in front and laterally, 

 the middle shield i-arinate on the middle and sides, running back tri- 

 angularly against the narrow and small scutellum, before which it is 

 moderately sinuated. Wing-covers exi)anded from the tip of clavus to 

 apex of membrane, bluntly rounded, costal area broad, crossed at the 

 apex by a few diagonal and bent veins, and these are coutiiuied by 

 an aj)ical series of straighter veins which bound the marginal row of 

 small areoles, the areoles next before these long and narrow, mostly 

 acute at the inner end, the one next the inner border very long, much 

 wider at tip. Legs moderately short, slender, the femora compressed, 

 almost i)risinatic, carinated, the tibiie cariuate, the i)Osterior ones with 

 a single tooth nearer the tip. Abdomen depressed, the connexivum 

 wide and thin. 



• CATONIDIA SOBRINA, new species. 



Pale fulvo-testaceous, more dusky above. Head short, cariuate on 

 the middle line of the vertex, i)olished, pale testaceous, face minutely 

 scabrous; rostrum reaching to beyond the apex of the posterior coxa*, 

 brown at tip. Pronotum pale, polished, with a carina on the middle; 

 mesonotum almost Hat, i>ale fnlvims, convex aiound the anterior curve, 

 the scutellum scoo])ed out, and with thick cariuate margins. Wing- 

 covers dull brownish testaceous, dusky at ai)ex, the veins pale, dotted 

 and tlecked with brown, those botinding th«^ apical series pale testa- 

 ceous, the two principal ones of the clavus thick, dotted with brown; 

 wings dusky, darker at tij), and with dark brown veins. Tibiae and 

 tarsi a little dusky. Venter darker in tlie middle, pale on the sutures. 



Length to end of abdomen, 7 mm.; width of mesonotum,.!^ mm.; 

 length to tip of wing covers, 10 mm. 



Ti/pc.—^o. :U18, U.S.N.INI. 



Oidy two specimens of this form are in the collection. 



Biibtairiily ISSIDA. 

 HEMISPHiERIUS FLAVIMACULA, Walker. 

 Heminpharius fiav'nnacuUi, Wai.kki!, liiit. Miis. List. II. ]>. 378. 

 Seven specimens of two or thiee varieties are in the collection. 



