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Tegmina uniformly dark brown, opaque, coriaceous, veins indistinct, basal 

 and costal margins slightly punctate ; apical and internal two thirds entirely 

 hidden under pronotum. 



Under surface of body reddish-brown ; front legs entirely yellow ; other 

 legs yellow except femora and trochanters which are brown. 



Length 4 mm. ; width between tips of humeral angles 4.4 mm. ; width be- 

 hind humeral angles 3 mm. 



Type : male. 



Locality: Para. Brazil. July 30, 1919 (Parish). 



Small, shield-shaped, brown spotted with yellow, not polished; 

 humeral angles much extended: head mottled yellow and brown; teg- 

 mina dark brown, about one fourth exposed at their basal costal mar- 

 gins; under surface of body ferruginous; legs yellow. 



Chelyoidea brunnea new species. (PI. II, fig. 12.) 



Head twice as wide as long, viniform brown ; roughly sculptured, very 

 finely punctate, sparingly pubescent; base sinuate; eyes large, prominent, 

 black ; ocelli small, white, glassy, conspicuous, twice as far from each other as 

 from the eyes and situated above an imaginary line drawn through centers of 

 eyes ; margins of gens sinuate ; median line slightly red between ocelli ; clypeus 

 broad, bent sharply backwards at its base and extending caudad as a broad 

 plate almost at right angles to the frontal plane of the head, as seen from a 

 strictly front view, not extending below inferior margins of gense. 



Pronotum uniform brown, finely punctate, not pubescent ; dorsum strongly 

 convex; humeral angles broad, conspicuous, auricular projection of pronotum 

 below and in front of humeral angles very large, concealing bases of front 

 legs ; metopidium sloping, broader than high ; median carina distinctly and 

 smoothly percurrent but not elevated ; posterior process broadly angular, almost 

 truncate ; eyes and bases of tegmina visible from a strictly dorsal view. 



Tegmina grayish-brown, opaque, coriaceous, punctate ; the apical and in- 

 ternal two thirds entirely concealed by the pronotum ; veins indistinct ; apical 

 margins under the posterior process black. 



Under surface of body uniformly brown. Legs uniformly brown, the 

 tibiae bearing irregular black spines. Tarsi flavous. 



Length 5 mm. ; width between tips of humeral angles 5 mm. ; width across 

 center of pronotum 3.5 mm. 



Type : male. 



Locality: Napo River, Peru. June 1920 (Parish). 



Large, uniformly dark brown without markings, shining, finely 

 punctate, not pubescent ; pronotum convex ; posterior subtruncate ; eyes 

 and bases of tegmina visible from dorsal view; head wider than long; 

 clypeus very much deflexed ; legs and under surface of body entirely 

 dark brown. 



