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beneatli the eye. Elytra broad; costa strongly convex; claviis and corium, 

 the apex excepted, thick and coriaceous, coarsely punctured; nervures strong, 

 somewhat irregular, connected, especially toward the apex, by numerous 

 irregular transverse nervures. Ultimate ventral segment broad and short, 

 almost pentagonal in outline, the short, abrupt apex with a shallow triangular 

 notch; disc depressed, with a central impressed line. Pygofers broad, ob- 

 long, with a short, bluntly conical apex; surface covered with short, scattering 

 hairs. 



Color : Head, pronotum and scutellum grayish yellcjw, punctured with 

 pale brown; apex of the face and central pronotal line whitish. Eyes brown. 

 Legs and all beneath soiled yellowish white; a few obscure markings on the 

 femora above and an annulus near the base of the tibiae, on the anterior and 

 intermediate feet, obscure brown; posterior tibiae with black points at the 

 base of the spines. Elytra obscure brown, pale and subhyaline toward the 

 apex, with two indistinct, whitish, oblique bands, the basal extending from 

 near the tip of the scutellum to the middle of the costal margin; the second 

 is more obscure, or almost obsolete, and extends from the middle to the 

 apex of the claval suture oblicjuely to the apex of the costa; basal punctures 

 brown, nervures toward the apex whitish. Wings whitish, nervures pale 

 brown. 



Described from two female examples (N. 226). Very distinct 

 from its American congeners, and easily distinguished by the thick 

 coriaceous, ramously veined elytra, and short ventral plate. In 

 these characters it appears to be quite unique, at least I know of no 

 exotic form exhibiting peculiarities analogous to these. 



2. Agallia oculata n. sp. 



Form of A. ^-punctata Prov., to which it is closely allied. Fulvous 

 brown; elytra dark brown, with pale nervures; two large spots on the disc 

 of the pronotum, and several smaller ones along the anterior margin and on 

 the face, black. Length 4 mm. 



Vertex much shorter at the middle than next the eye. Front broad, 

 sides nearly straight above, rounded below to the base of the clypeus. Cly- 

 peus narrow, oblong, slightly contracted at the base, the apex subtriangular. 

 Lorae narrow. Cheeks narrow, outer edge obtusely angled near the middle, 

 below coalescing with the outer edge of the lorae. Pronotum somewhat 

 pentagonal in form, or lozenge-shaped, with the posterior angle truncated be- 

 fore the scutellum; anterior angle rounded, the disc before somewhat tumid; 

 latero-posterior margin feebly rounded, reaching the eye before, posterior 

 angles rounded; surface transversely wrinkled. Scutellum small, the anterior 

 field largely covered by the pronotum. Elytra longer than in the eastern 

 ^-punctata. Last ventral segment of the female long, about equalling the 

 two preceding; hind edge feebly and regularly arcuated; disc with a narrow, 

 depressed, longitudinal line on the middle. In the male this segment does 

 not differ from the penultimate. 



(To be continued.) 



