252 Mr. G. W, Kirkaldy's Menioir ujmi the 



14; B. herta, sp. nov. (Plate V, fig. 10.) 



Head above and below, pronotura and scutellum, Inteous. Eye3, 

 antennse, a central line on pronotum, and a dot on each side of the 

 middle at the base of the callosities, and the posterior margin 

 infuscately (these pronotum markings lees or more obscure) ; a 

 median wedge-shaped stripe on scutellum, not reaching the base ; 

 tibiae, tarsi, and apex of femora, brownish-black or blackish. Elytra 

 greyisli-black, clavus (except exterolateral margin), an irregular 

 longitudinal marmorate stripe on coriiim, and cuneus, very pale, 

 greyish-greenish white. Mendjrane fumate. Femora sordid test- 

 aceous. Venter immaculate creamy white. Rostrum reaching 

 intermediate coxse. Second segment of antennae slightly incrassate 

 apically, but not so stout as the 1st, and a little more than twice as 

 long; 3rd almost as long as 1st. Pronotum ^ longer than 1st 

 segment of antennae, lateral margins entirely, but somewhat 

 feebly, acute, not or scarcely reflexed. 



Long. 9J mill. 



Hah. N. Brazil, Ttaituba. 



Readil)' distinguished by its colouring. 



15. Lomatoplnira hesjU'rns, nov. nom. (Plate V, fig. 1.) 



CapsKs cocr incus, Walker (nee Meyer, 1843) ; 1873 Cat. 

 Hem. Heter., Brit. Mus., vi, p. 93. 



This species, of which I possess examples from Florida 

 (labelled by a well-known American entomologist Hesthcnia 

 insignis ! !), is closely allied to L. cxsar, Renter. Does 

 it really belong to the Capsaria ? 



16. JVcuo-ocolpus omhilus. (Plate VI, fig. 24.) 



Capsus mohilus, Say, 1832, Heter, Hem. (N. Harmony), p. 22. 

 Neurocolpus mcxicanus, Distant, 1883, Biologia, Rhyuch., 



I, p. 262, pi. xxiii, fig. 5. 

 Neurocolpus ajfinis, Distant, 1. c, p. 263. 



Distant's figure represents one of the pale forms of this 

 protean species. I liave a very variable colour series 

 from Costa Rica, the species being distributed from 

 Canada to Panama. The antenna3 are very remarkable, 

 the setoe (as noted by Distant) with which the 1st 

 segment is clothed, being diluted apically. 



