86 Mr. W. L. Distant’s descriptions of new 
ceous, the apex blackish; corium with some black punctures on 
costal margin, and a large brown patch near apical margin; the 
clavus brown-punctate ; membrane pale hyaline, mottled with pale 
brownish ; abdomen above ochraceous, the base, a transverse fascia 
about centre followed by two shorter fascie on each side, black ; 
body beneath and femora ochraceous, punctured with reddish brown; 
tibiz and tarsi luteous thickly speckled with fuscous, apices of the 
tarsi black, femora spined beneath at apex, two spines being 
prominent, long, and with their apices fuscous ; rostrum ochraceous 
with its apex fuscous. 
Long. 6 millim. 
Hab. Machachi (9—10,000 ft.), eastern side,of Cora- 
zon (12,000 ft.). 
Fam. LYGHIDA. 
Division Orsillaria. 
Nysius procerus, n. sp., Dist. MS., in Whym. Trav. 
Great Andes, Append., p. 113, n. 10 (1892). 
Greyish, spotted and marked with fuscous and black. Head 
coarsely punctate, with a broad fascia between the eyes, interrupted 
in the centre; the lateral margins and the margins of the central 
lobe blackish ; antennz fuscous, second joint a little longer than 
the others, third and fourth subequal in length; eyes fuscous ; 
pronotum coarsely punctate, with a bioad transverse blackish 
fascia near anterior margin, and from which five narrow fuscous 
fasciz radiate to posterior margin; lateral angles (excepting apex) 
dark fuscous and moderately nodulose; scutellum coarsely and 
blackly punctate, with a central black levigate cruciform im- 
pression, and the apex pale greyish ochraceous; corium longi- 
tudinally spotted with fuscous along the veins, and with three dark 
fuscous elongate spots on apical margin; membrane greyish, 
obscurely spotted with pale fuscous. Body beneath imperfectly 
seen owing to specumen being carded ; legs pale ochraceous, femora 
spotted with dark fuscous, extreme base of tibiz and apices of tarsi 
fuscous. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Machachi (9—10,000 ft.). 
This species should be nearest allied to the Colombian 
N. nubilus, Dall., the type of which is no longer to be 
found in the British Museum. 
