272 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



band on the costal area. Described from three specimens, two from 

 Chapada and the other from Santarem, Brazil, collected during i\u- 

 gust by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Smith. The species is named in honor 

 of Dr. W. J. Holland, who kindly has sent me for study the speci- 

 mens of neo-tropical Tingidae in the Carnegie Museum. Type from 

 Chapada, Brazil, in Carnegie Museum; paratypes in Carnegie Mu- 

 seum and author's collection. 



3. Dicysta braziliensis n. sp. 

 Related to D. vitrca Champion and D. hoUandi n. sp., but very 

 distinct and readily separated from either of these forms by the much 

 narrower paranota, and the much less elevated hood and bladder-like 

 process of the median carina; the elytra are widened posteriorly. 

 Length 2.79 mm.; width 2.09 mm. (through tumid elevations of 

 elytra). 



Head with three moderately long frontal spines, the lateral ones directed 

 inwardly with their points touching, the median closely appressed to the 

 surface of the head. Antenna with the first segment about three times the 

 length of the second, the third and fourth segments wanting. Rostrum reach- 

 ing a little beyond the meso-metathoracic suture, pronotum rather coarsely 

 punctate, paranota slightly reflexed, narrow, biseriate, the areolas moderately 

 large, but smaller than those of the hood. Hood very long, with the sides 

 slightly compressed, shaped very much like the hood in Corythucha (hood en 

 tirely covers the head, but placed much farther back on the pronotum) nearly 

 twice as long as high. Posterior hood-like process of median carina with its 

 height and length subequal, about half as long as the hood, the anterior mar- 

 gin nearly truncate and sloping obliquely backwards. Median carina con- 

 nected with the hood a little below the crest, with three large areolae between 

 hood and inflated portion of median carina, and with three small areola under the 

 raised posterior portion of hood, with the sides somewhat compressed, narrower 

 than the hood, rounded posteriorly. Elytra widened posteriorly, widest near the 

 apex ; costal area with five rows of areolae at widest part (one at base and 

 enlarging to five at widest part) ; subcostal area with a single row of areolae 

 at the base and enlarging to two posteriorly ; tumid elevations not very large ; 

 discoidal area broadly rounded distally, with four rows of cells at widest 

 part. Wings a little longer than the abdomen. 



General color brownish. Body beneath dark brown or blackish, the abdomen 

 lighter. Basal segments of the antenna; dark brown. Nervures of paranota, 

 elytra, hood, and median carina dark brown, part of them more or less testa- 

 ceous. Legs brownish. 



Described from a single male specimen (type), taken at Santarem, 



