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bright red; the tegmina very dark brown, opaque and slightly pilose; the legs 

 and undersurface of the body black. 



All of the specimens were collected by Mr. H. S. Parish of To- 

 ronto, Canada. The specimens from Chosica were taken June 9, 

 1914, and those from Ecuador in August, 1914. 



Type of variety : male. Type locality : Chosica, Peru. 



Leioscyta brunnea new species. 



Dark brown, closely punctate, sparingly pubescent; dorsum nearly straight, 

 very slightly depressed at middle and deflexed at tip ; tegmina black at base, 

 brown at middle and luteus-hyaline at tip ; undersurface of body brown ; legs 

 ferruginous. 



Head longer than wide, foliaceous, dark brown, finely and closely punctate, 

 sparingly pubescent; base of head strongly sinuate with a pronounced tubercle 

 above each ocellus ; eyes small, not prominent, gray ; ocelli small, pearly, far- 

 ther from each other than from the eyes and situated slightly above an imag- 

 inary line drawn through centers of eyes ; deep impression at base of median 

 line of head between the tubercles ; clypeus broad, flat, foliaceous, somewhat 

 pubescent. 



Pronotum uniformly dark brown, closely punctate, sparingly pubescent ; 

 metopidium sloping ; dorsum nearly straight, slightly depressed and sinuate in 

 middle, roughly sculptured ; median carina percurrent, sharp and prominent ; 

 a short lateral carina on each side extending from behind humeral angles to 

 base of posterior process; humeral angles not prominent, rounded; posterior 

 process slightly deflexed, acute, triquerate, extending just about to tip of ab- 

 domen but not nearly reaching the extremities of the tegmina. 



Tegmina black, coriaceous and strongly punctate at base, middle third 

 dark brown and translucent, apical third yellowish and hyaline ; five apical and 

 two discoidal areas. 



Undersurface of body uniform brown ; legs ferruginous ; first two pairs of 

 legs weakly foliaceous, hind legs spined and pubescent, the spines tipped with 

 black. Length, 5 mm. ; width between humeral angles, 2 mm. 



Type : male. Locality : Peru. 



Near L. nitida Fowler but larger and differing in color and sculp- 

 turing of the pronotum. It is doubtful if the generic characters as 

 laid down by Fowler for the genus Leioscyta will prove sufficient to 

 distinguish this genus from Tropidoscyta Stal when a large number 

 of species are examined. The two discoidal areas of the tegmina 

 are not always associated with the elongate pronotum. 



