26 Journal New York Entomological Society, r^'o'- xxx. 



smoothly sculptured, shining, brown, slightly darker along median line, not 

 punctate, not pubescent ; basal margin arcuate ; eyes very large, prominent, 

 brown margined with greenish ; ocelli small, white, glassy, very conspicuous on 

 account of their color, a little farther from each other than from the eyes 

 and situated about on a line drawn through centers of eyes ; margins of gense 

 weakly sinuate, a slight notch at angle of clypeus ; clypeus a little longer than 

 wide, depressed at base, rounded at tip, not punctate nor pubescent. 



Pronotum convex, arcuate, highest over humeral angles, shining brown, 

 polished, lightly and irregularly punctate, not pubescent, without markings of 

 any kind; metopidium broader than high, sloping, more or less flattened; 

 humeral angles weak, not prominent, subtriangular, blunt ; median carina very 

 faintly percurrent ; posterior process narrow, rounded, blunt at tip, extending 

 well beyond apex of abdomen but not reaching apices of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline with coriaceous patches; about two thirds concealed by 

 the lateral margins of the pronotum ; veins very heavy, prominent and brown ; 

 base opaque, coriaceous and punctate ; tip broadly and deeply clouded with 

 brown. 



Under surface of head and thorax shining brown ; under surface oi 

 abdomen lighter grayish-brown ; legs and feet concolorous brown and some- 

 what pubescent. 



Length from front of head to tips of tegmina 6.6 mm. ; width between 

 humeral angles 2.j mm. 



Type : female. 



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



Elongate, smooth, shining brown, head pointed and projected for- 

 ward, not deflexed; posterior process narrow; entire insect spindle- 

 shaped as seen from above ; tegmina about one third exposed ; legs and 

 imder surface of body uniformly brown. 



Boethoos brunnea new species. (PI. Ill, fig. 3.) 



Head somewhat projecting forward, about as wide as long, uniformly 

 light brown, polished, weakly sculptured, not pubescent, not punctate; basal 

 margin lightly sinuate ; eyes large, prominent, dark brown margined with 

 lighter ; ocelli large, prominent, somewhat elevated, yellowish-white, about equi- 

 distant from each other and from the eyes and situated about on an imaginary 

 line drawn through centers of eyes; margins of genae nearly straight; clypeus 

 small, widest near base, tip very pubescent with stiff bristly hairs and not 

 extending below margins of genre. 



Pronotum convex, weakly sculptured, uniformly light brown, closely punc- 

 tate, densely pubescent ; metopidium sloping, wider than high ; median carina 

 faintly percurrent ; humeral angles small, triangular, acute, not prominent ; 

 posterior process gradually acute, extending well beyond apex of abdomen but 

 not reaching apices of tegmina. 



