Uhler.] 326 [February 24, 



die pale yellow, with a dirty orange stripe along the middle; the ante- 

 rior margin with a short, interrupted, black streak ; on each side of 

 middle behind the callosities a curved, impressed, transverse, black line, 

 which gives off a short, oblique branch fi'om the inner end, resembling 

 a barb. Pectus dirty white, a small spot each side close to the head, 

 and a transverse strijje near the posterior margin of antepectus dull 

 black; meso- and metasternum dull black, and a black strijie, abbre- 

 viated, just above the middle coxje. Legs clothed with yellowish 

 grey pubescence, femora rufescent, infuscated above, tibia3 fuscescent, 

 rufous at base above, tarsi densely yellowish pubescent beneath. 

 Scutellum blackish fuscous, impressed each side, the middle line, and 

 lateral margins interruptedly, dirty rufous. Hemelytra clothed with 

 golden pubescence, the sutures slightly infuscated; membrane dirty 

 ochreous, infuscated along the suture, the nervures red, the posterior 

 ones infuscated; the intermediate one straight, and giving off a short, 

 oblique branch. Venter dirty wliite, clothed with fine grayish pubes- 

 cence, at base each side is a short black band, the posterior margin of 

 the segments narrowly black. 



Length eleven milUmetres. Humeral breadth three and three 

 fourths millimetres. 



Taken between NajDO and Maraiion. It is allied to L. modestus 

 Stal. 



Fam. Pyrrhocorid^. 



Dysdercus ruflceps H. Schf Wanz. Ins., m, p. 95, fig. 319. 

 LygcEus riificeps Perty, Delectus, p. 172, tab. 34, fig. 7. 



Obtained near the Napo River. I have seen specimens from vari- 

 ous parts of Brazil, fi-om Panama and Guiana. 



Fam. Zelid^. 



The body of a Zelus ? is in the collection taken between Napo and 

 Maraiion, but as the characteristic parts are lost, it is impossible to 

 recognise either the genus or species. 



Fam. Belostomid^. 



B. annulipes H. Schf Wanz. Ins., IX, 28, figs. 803, 804. Found 

 at Guayaquil. 



