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XII, — Notes on Exotic Rhynchota, luith descriptions of 

 neiu species. By W. L. Distant. 



(Plate V.) 



[Read August 4tli, 1880.] 



Lohotliyreus obscurus, n. sp. (Plate V., iBg. 1, la). 



Ferruginous, mottled with oclireous. Head above, witli 

 the central lobe margined with ochreous for about two- 

 thirds from base, and a small basal oblique black fascia 

 placed on inner margin of each ocellus ; beneath with 

 apical half black, basal portion ochreous. Antennae with 

 the first three joints about equal, third and fourth longest 

 and sub-equal ; three basal joints castaneous, first darkest, 

 fourth castaneous with the basal half ochreous, fifth pitchy. 

 Pronotum with the lateral margins deeply sinuated, the 

 lateral angles very broadly prominent and somewhat 

 truncate ; marked irregularly with fascia formed of con- 

 fluent black punctures, between which the ground colour is 

 much paler and more finely and sparsely punctured ; a 

 pale, central longitudinal line extending half across disk 

 from anterior margin. Scutellum with the base somewhat 

 gibbous, on which is a paler ochreous patch mottled with 

 confluent black punctures ; on each side of this the surface 

 is abruptly deflexed and excavated, and defined with a some- 

 what obscure arctuated black fascia. The whole surface is 

 somewhat thickly and finely punctured, .with the lateral 

 margins and apical half granulate. Costal margins of 

 corium marked with transverse black fasciae. Sternum 

 ochreous, punctured, and mottled with black ; abdomen dark 

 castaneous, thickly and finely punctured on lateral margins, 

 more sparingly so on disk. Legs castaneous with ochreous 

 markings, tarsi dull, ochreous. Rostrum castaneous, 

 scarcely extending beyond posterior coxse. 



Long. 10 millims. Lat. pronot. angl. 7 millims. 



Hab. Peru. 



Differs from L. lobatus, at present the only other 

 known species of the genus, by its much larger size, the 



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