1913.] 5 



Prof. Calvert (Eut. News, xxii, p. 405 (1911)], has recorded one 

 species of this genus, 31. dimidiatipennis, Jekel (figured by me in the 

 "Biologia"), from Bromeliads. Four others are represented in the 

 material sent me by M. Picado. One of these, fi-om Orosi, is 

 M. (Sphenophoms) hebetatus, Gryll. (also figured by me in the 

 " Biologia "), and, like If. dimidiatipennis, already known from Costa 

 Eica ; the remaining three are enumerated below. 



Metamasitjs cincinnatus. 



Metamasius cincinnatus, Champ, (loc. cit.) p. 110, pi. 5, fig. 18 (J). 



Hab. : Costa Eica, La Mica, Orosi ; alt. 1300 metres. 



One male, much infested with Acari, found in January, differing 



from the unique discoloured Nicaraguan male, in having the rostrum, 



femora, tibiae, metasteruum, and basal half of the abdomen in great 



part rufous, and the black marking on the disc of the thorax reduced 



to a short posteriorly bifurcate median vitta on the anterior half. 



The posterior tibiae have a dense tuft of long curled fulvous hairs near 



the middle of the inner margin, and a few long hairs between this 



and the tip. 



Metamasius ochbeofasciatus. 



Metamasius ochrenfasciatus, Champ, (loc. cit.) p. 113, pi. 5, fig. 28 ( ? ). 



S . Rostrum narrowly sulcate beneath and with the margins of the groove 

 very feebly crenulate ; posterior tibise with a tuft of long curled fulvous hairs 

 at about the middle of the inner margin ; ventral excavation very broad and 

 deep, extending from aboiit the centre of tlie metasternum to near the second 

 abdominal suture ; the fiftli segment transversely depressed at the apex, and 

 with the coarse punctiu-es along the middle each bearing a long erect hair. 



Hah. : Costa Eica, Orosi ; alt. 1300 metres. 



Three males and two females. The type, from Azahar de Cartago, 

 was a female. The male proves, as anticipated hy me (I. c, p. 104), 

 to have long hairs on the hind tibiae. In cue ti the Orosi specimens 

 the narrow ochreous fascia on the elytra is reduce i to a .small spot 

 and in another it is entirely wanting. 



Metamasius bromeliadicola, n. sp. 



(? . Elongate, subfusiform, somewhat shining ; black, the antennal scape, 

 the base of the femora, the tibise and tarsi in part, and some indefinite spots 

 along the sides of the body beneath, rufous ; the prothorax rufous, with a 

 sagittiform median vitta, and an elongate stripe on each side of it on the 

 posterior half, these markings becoming coalescent at about the middle of the 

 disc, and the sides anteriorly, black ; the elytra sordid ochreous, with various 

 black streaks and spots, the streaks tending to form a transverse post^basal 



