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ing on the posterior half: humeral angles short, blunt, rounded, projecting 

 laterad about as far as the eyes ; metopidium compressed laterally, about as 

 high as wide ; median carina strongly percurrent, very thin and sharp in 

 middle of dorsum ; posterior process short, gradually acute, tectiform, reach- 

 ing to internal angles of tegmina and just about to tip of abdomen. 



Tegmina very shining, glassy, polished ; veins heavy, mottled ferruginous 

 and luteous ; base narrowly coriaceous and punctate ; five apical and two dis- 

 coidal cells ; apical cells long and slightly curved. 



Under surface of body concolorous luteous ; legs luteous, claws flavous. 



Length from front of head to tips of tegmina 6.2 mm. ; width between 

 humeral angles 2.4 mm. 



Type : female. 



Locality: Iquitos, Peru. March 16, 1920 (Parish). Paratypes from Para, 

 Brazil, July 7 and July 30, 1919 (Parish). 



Small; ferruginous mottled with luteous; a small luteous spot on 

 median line at base of posterior process and another just before apex ; 

 posterior process just reaching internal angles of tegmina; tegmina 

 very polished and shining with bases opaque; under surface of body 

 and entire legs luteous; claws flavous. 



Scaphula maculata new species. (PI. II, fig. 2.) 



Head subtriangular, sculptured, black, polished, shining, finely and spar- 

 ingly punctate, not pubescent, margins slightly produced, median line between 

 the ocelli yellow; base nearly straight; eyes very large, light brown, twice as 

 wide as high as seen from a front view ; ocelli large, conspicuous, brown, 

 equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated slightly above a 

 line passing through centers of eyes; margins of genae nearly straight; 

 clypeus about as wide as long, margins nearly continuing outline of margins 

 of genae, depressed in center, apex broadly rounded and strongly pilose. 



Pronotum shield-shaped, regularly arcuate, not at all compressed laterally, 

 only slightly elevated, about twice as long as broad, very finely punctate, not 

 at all pubescent, polished and shining; entire pronotum shining black except 

 a very large bright yellow spot on each humeral angle which extends forward 

 to the head, and a pale-green spot on the apex of the posterior process; 

 humeral angles broadly rounded, not conspicuous, extending laterad a little 

 farther than the eyes; metopidium slightly convex, broader than high; median 

 carina faintly percurrent ; posterior process very broad, rounded, blunt, the 

 apex pale green and extending just beyond the internal angles of the tegmina. 



Tegmina almost entirely exposed ; basal two thirds shining black and 

 subopaque except narrow proximal area of yellow ; apical third hyaline ; veins 

 strong and very distinct even in black portion ; five apical and two discoidal 

 cells ; veins of apical area more or less curved. 



Under surface of body black ; legs pale green. 



