March, 1922.] FuNKHOUSER: SoUTH AMERICAN MembRACID.E. 21 



Length from front of head to tips of tegmina 5 mm. ; width between 

 humeral angles 3 mm. 

 Type : male. 

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



Described from the following specimens in addition to the type: 

 one specimen from Yurimaguas, Peru, March 31, 1920; one from 

 Flores; Manaos, Brazil, Nov. 7, 1919; one from Brazil, Aug. 18, 1919; 

 all collected by Parish, and two from Bolivia, collector and date of 

 collecting unknown. 



Small, dark brown, shining; elongate, posterior very pointed; a 

 thin yellow line extending upward and backward from each humeral 

 angle, another very short line in middle of lateral margin of pronotum, 

 and a third near base of posterior process extending from margin 

 almost to median dorsal line. Tegmina entirely opaque except for a 

 very distinct subquadrangular entirely hyaline spot at costal margin of 

 apical third which suggests specific name. 



Chelyoidea nitida Buckton. 



1903. Chelyoidea nitida Buckt. Mon. Memb., 157, PI. 33, figs. 2, 2a, 2b. 



One specimen, a male, from Iquitos, Peru, March 16, 1920 (Par- 

 ish). This is apparently the first record of this species since its 

 original description. 



I have a very strong suspicion that Tragopa nitida Germar will 

 have to be placed in the genus Chelyoidea in which case Buckton's 

 species, which is the type of the genus, will become a synonym. 



Chelyoidea fasciata new species. (PI. II, figs. 9 and 10.) 



Head nearly rectangular, about as broad as long, finely punctate, not 

 pubescent, mottled yellow and brown, smoothly sculptured; base arcuate; 

 eyes large, prominent, sordid white, translucent ; ocelli srrtall, glassy, bordered 

 with yellow, conspicuous, twice as far from each other as from the eyes and 

 situated almost on a line drawn through upper margins of eyes ; margins of 

 genje straight ; clypeus very broad below margins of genae, subrectangular, 

 dark brown, notched at margins of genae, tip truncate and pubescent. 



Pronotum shield-shaped suggesting the outline of a turtle's carapace, much 

 longer than wide, coarsely punctate, not pubescent, margins sinuate ; ground 

 color orange with a broad black fascia extending transversely across the prono- 

 tum and connecting the tips of the humeral angles ; an arCuate black fascia 

 on each side beginning at the margin just behind the humeral angle and 

 ending at the margin at the base of the posterior process ; metopidium sloping, 



