84 Mr. W. L. Distant’s descriptions of new 
Fam. COREID. 
Division Spartoceraria. 
Sephina culta, n. sp., Dist. MS., in Whym. Travels 
Great Andes, Append., p. 112, n. 6 (1892). 
Black ; a central longitudinal fascia to both corium and scu- 
tellum, and a spot on disk of corium, ochraceous; eyes greyish; 
abdomen above dull reddish, the base and apex more or less black, 
connexivum with some oblique black spots; membrane dark 
olivaceous. Body beneath black; lateral margins and central 
basal margin of mesosternum, and two central discal spots to abdo- 
men, ochraceous ; lateral margins of abdomen pale castaneous. 
Antenne finely pilose, first and second joints subequal in length, 
third shortest; basal joint and apex of third joint incrassated ; 
pronotum with the lateral angles acutely produced; posterior 
femora armed beneath with some short obtuse spines near apex. 
Long. 22 millim. Exp. lat. ang. pron. 8 millim. 
Hab. Milligalli (height unknown). 
S. culta, by its peculiar markings, is nearest allied to 
S. geniculata, Dist., a Costa Rican species. 
Division Corearia. 
Margus tibialis, n. sp., Dist. MS., in Whym. Trav. 
Great Andes, Append., p. 113, n. 7 (1892). 
Brownish grey, thickly and finely punctured with brown; head 
with the eyes and ocelli pale castaneous, the antenniferous tubercles 
obtuse, not spined; antenne concolorous, the basal joint more or 
less black-speckled, especially beneath; the apical joint fuscous 
with its base paler, the second joint slightly longer than the third ; 
extreme lateral margins of the pronotum ochraceous, spotted with 
fuscous, the rounded lateral angles narrowly fuscous or black ; 
scutellum with the apex luteous, and with an indistinct pale central 
longitudinal line ; nervures of the corium pale, spotted with red- 
dish brown; membrane fuscous; abdomen above blackish, the 
connexivum reddish brown, indistinctly banded with luteous at the 
segmental incisures ; body beneath pale brownish; abdomen with 
two central and a lateral row of small fuscous spots; legs ochra- 
ceous, the femora very thickly spotted and annulated with black, 
the tibie with a few blackish spots, the apices of the tarsi black; 
rostrum, especially in apical half, more or less clouded with 
piceous. 
Long. 7 to 8 millim, 
