336 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. iia 



breast piceous, a spine on all the tibiae. Length 9.2 mm,; width 

 4.4 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, from New Grenada (Colombia). 



Kemarks: Only the female is laiown, but the size and markings 

 differentiate it from related species. It is larger and more strongly 

 costate than H. bryanti from Trinidad. 



Hystiopsis megala, new species 



Figure 82 



Between 8 and 9 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, somewhat 

 shiny, the elytra strongly costate and the front of the head depressed, 

 pale yellow brown with the head mostly piceous except about the 

 mouthparts, the elytra with a dark vitta down the suture and another 

 down the side, not reaching the middle, sometimes a median spot 

 and also a larger apical spot often with a similar one beside it on 

 each elytron, the breast tending to be dark. 



Head with the interocular space less than half mdth of head, 

 occiput finely punctate, a depression above frontal tubercles, lower 

 front depressed, head piceous except about mouthparts, often only 

 the jaws pale and the labrum sometimes also pale. Antennae red- 

 dish brown (terminal joints missing). Prothorax somewhat rectang- 

 ular wdth shghtly cm'ved sides and often not a very conspicuous 

 transverse sulcus, yellowish or reddish bro\\m, finely punctate. Scu- 

 tellum pale. Elytra wider towards apex, strongly costate with the 

 intervals having geminate striate punctures, pale with dark markings, 

 sometimes with a metallic lustre, a vitta from base covering humerus 

 down the side and another from about the scutellum down the sutm-e, 

 neither reaching the middle, sometimes a median spot opposite the 

 end of these and near the apex a large median spot, sometimes broken 

 into two spots. Body beneath pale with the breast darker, often 

 only along the sides, legs entnely pale; a spine on middle and hind 

 tibiae. Length 8-9 mm.; width 4.2-4.4 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, Fry collection, from Ecuador, collected by 

 Buckley; another female labelled "Cuenca" [Ecuador], and a third 

 female, Baly collection, without any locality label. 



Remarks: This is as large as H. maxima, but with a shghtly dif- 

 ferent elytral pattern, 



Hystiopsis phaica, new species 



Figure 87 



About 7.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, moderately shiny, 

 the elytra costate, the intervals geminate striate punctate, pale yel- 

 lowish brown with the head piceous and mouthparts somewhat paler, 

 antennae with the intermediate joints dark, the elytra having a dark 



