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Hemely tron : Polished, virtually impunctate or with obsolete 

 punctures; membrane hyaline, surpassing apex of abdomen by about 

 one-thu'd its length. 



Legs: Corbide of posterior tibia with discal tubercles few in 

 number, well removed from outer margin. 



Color: Dark brown, apical half or more of anterior tibiae and 

 marginal tubercles of corbicle of posterior tibiae black. 



Length of body: 10.65 in all specimens. 



Type data.— Holotype female (KU), "Peru, S.A., 4-21, 1939, 

 F, Woytkowski, No. 398, Dept. Huanuco, Loc. Shapajilla, 630 m.a.s., 

 1.11 km. N. E. Tingo Maria." Paratypes as follows: 



Peru: Same data as type, 2 females (RCF, USNM). 

 Bolivia: Yungas de Coroico, Fassel, 1 female (Wien). 



Distribution. — This species is known only from Bolivia and Peru, 

 as indicated above. 



Discussion. — Although known only from a few female specimens, 

 the present species must be erected because the specimens agree 

 with none of the previously described forms. The four specimens 

 are very uniform in appearance and stand out more boldly in general 

 habitus than is borne out by structural features. In its large size 

 and dark color, this species appears superficially most like talpa, but 

 the impunctate posterior lobe of the pronotum and the irregularly 

 placed discal tubercles of the corbicle that are distinctly removed from 

 the side of the corbicle will separate it effectively from taljM. 



Scaptocoris talpa Champion 



Plate figures 134, 191 

 Scaptocoris talpa Champion, 1900, p. 256. 



Diagnosis. — The location of the single row of transverse tubercles 

 very close to the outer edge of the corbicular area of hind tibia (fig. 

 134) and large size (over 8.5) separates this species readily from all 

 others in the genus. 



DescPwIption. — ^Color: Light browii, apices of anterior tibiae and 

 marginal and discal tubercles of corbicle of posterior tibia fuscous to 

 black. 



Male : Two specimens. 



Head: Wider than long, 1.94(1.93-1,95) : 1.65(1.62-1.69); inter- 

 ocular width, 1.31(1.30-1.33); width of eye, 0.32 in both specimens; 

 ocellus large, separated from eye hy less than ocellar width; clypeus 

 subparallel-sided, subequal to length of juga. Antennal segments: 

 I, 0.70(0.70-0.70); II, 0.65(0.65-0.66); III, 0.44(0.43-0.46); IV, 

 0.40(0.38-0.42). Labial segments: I, 0.65(0.65-0.66); II, 0.68(0.66- 

 0.70); III, 0.44(0.43-0.46); IV, 0.40(0.38-0.42). 



