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tions slight, not prolbund ; pronotum shorter than mesonotum, 

 its latéral margins dilaled but nol angulate, nearly straight and 

 posteriorly a little rounded; mesonotum moderately convex, cru- 

 ciform élévation longer than broad ; rostrum passing the inter- 

 mediate coxa>; tegmina slightly narrower than wings atbase, about 

 two and a hait' times as long as greatest breadth, basai cell twice 

 as long as broad, postcostal area moderately wide and distinct, 

 apical areas eight; wings a little lobately produced near anal area, 

 apical areas six. 



Type : M. platypleura Dist, 



This genus is allied to Chonosia Dist. fromwhich it principally 

 diflers by the non-produced, broad, narrow, and continuately mar- 

 gined head. 



Mendozana platypleura sp. nov. >— 9- Head black, a trans- 

 verse basai spot on each side of ocelli, and the basai half of sulca- 

 tion to face, ochraceoiis; pronotum black, its anterior margin 

 (very narrowly), its posterior margin (more broadly and irregu- 

 larly), and a spot at anterior angles of latéral margins, ochraceous, 

 two large transverse castaneous discal spots, divided by a longitu- 

 dinal central black fascia which is broadly widened posteriorly; 

 mesonotum black, with two central obsolète obconical spots, an 

 ochi-aceous spot in front of each anterior angle of the cruciform 

 élévation the disk of which is also ochraceous; abdomen above 

 black, the posterior segmentai margins ochraceous; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous; a large spot at inner margin of each eye, 

 apex of rostrum, some sternal spots, and a spot on each side of 

 apical abdominal segment, black; tegmina and wings moderately 

 wrinkled and talc-like, tegmina with about basai half of venation 

 ochraceous, remainder piceous, costal membrane (excluding 

 margin), basai cell, a spot beneath it, large basai spot in clavus, 

 and streaks at base, piceous, the anal area greyishiy opaque 

 terminating beyond middie with an angulate fuscous margin. 



Long. excl. tegm. $ 20 mill. Exp. tegm., 63 mill. 



Hab. : Argentine; Prov. Catamaros (S. Venturi, Brit. Mus.). 



Division Carinetaria. 



Garineta cearana sp. n. — 9. Head, pronotum, and mesono- 

 tum pale umber brown ; head with the ocelli mai'gined wilh black; 

 pronohun with a broad central longitudinal black fascia which 

 is broadest anleriorly but not i-eaching anterior margin and is 

 biangulale on each side, the cenlre of the latéral margins narrowlv 

 black, and a blach spot near each posterior angle; mesonotum with 



