16 Journal New York Entomological Society. [^'°^- xxx. 



Length from front of head to tips of tegmiaa 6 mm. ; width between 

 humeral angles 3.7 mm. 

 Type : male. 

 Locality: Teffe, Brazil. Oct. 12, igig (Parish). 



Black, shining, humeral angles broadly bright yellow, apex of poste- 

 rior process pale green ; tegmina with basal two-thirds black and shin- 

 ing, apical third hyaline; under surface of body black; legs pale green; 

 general aspect of a large Tragopa. 



Subfamily Tragopinae. 

 Tragopa scutellaris Buckton. 



1903. Tragopa scutellaris Buckt. Mon. Memb., 156, PI. 23^ Figs, i and la. 



Two specimens, a male and a female, from Prata, Brazil, July 5, 

 1919 (Parish). 



Tiagopa albifascia new species. (PI. II, fig. 3.) 



Head wider than long, deflexed, very convex, smooth, polished, shining 

 brown, not punctate nor pubescent ; basal margin strongly sinuate ; eyes large, 

 dark brown margined with yellow ; ocelli large, conspicuous, yellow, twice as 

 far from each other as from the eyes and situated slightly above a line drawn 

 through centers of eyes ; margins of genae sinuate ; clypeus subquadrangular, 

 longer than wide, extending for half its length beyond inferior margins of 

 genae, not quite continuing line of genal margins, tip rounded ; antennx very 

 long and bright yellow. 



Pronotum gradually rounded, not twice as long as wide, shining chocolate 

 brown, somewhat lighter on posterior third, metopidium and humeral angles 

 highly polished, very sparingly and faintly punctate, not pubescent ; an irregu- 

 lar white or yellowish line on each side, starting at the lateral margin of the 

 pronotum a little posterior to the middle of the body and extending upward 

 for about one third of the distance to the median line ; humeral angles small, 

 prominent, triangular, blunt ; median carina absent except as a very faint 

 line at the apex of the posterior process ; posterior process short, heavy, con- 

 -vex above, somewhat angular at apex, blunt. 



Tegmina almost entirely concealed by the pronotum ; less than one third 

 exposed ; exposed portion entirely coriaceous, opaque and dark brown ; veins 

 indistinguishable. 



Under surface of body dark brown ; legs lighter brown. 



Length 3.3 mm.; width between humeral angles 2.5 mm. 



Type : female. Male somewhat smaller and darker. 



Locality: Bolivia. Exact locality, date of collecting and collector un- 

 known. 



Described from two females and one male. 



