90 Mr. W. L. Distant’s descriptions of new 
half, the other commencing about middle of costal margin, and 
terminating at inner basal angle of cuneus; cuneus brownish ; 
membrane pale fuscous, the cellular margin paler. Body beneath 
with the sternum fuscous, the abdomen ochraceous, legs ochra- 
ceous ; femora with their apices speckled with fuscous ; apices of 
the tarsi blackish. 
Long. 5 millim. 
Hab. La Dormida, Cayambe (11,800 ft.). 
Lygus excelsus, n. sp., Dist. MS., in Whym. Trav. 
Great Andes, Append., p. 114, n. 16 (1892). 
Ochraceous, marked and spotted with blackish ; antenn ochra- 
ceous, the apex of the second joint and the whole of the third and 
fourth joints fuscous; pronotum with two large basal central 
wedge-shaped spots, and a small spot at lateral angles, blackish: 
scutellum with the centre of the basal margin blackish; clavus 
more or less shaded with blackish, except at apex; corium with a 
broad irregular central transverse blackish fascia; cuneus ochra- 
ceous; membrane pale fuscous, spotted with darker fuscous at base 
and apex. Body beneath pale brownish ochraceous, with a central 
blackish fascia; legs mutilated. 
Var. Paler than the typical form as here described; the spots 
on the pronotum smaller; clavus pale and unicolorous; the trans- 
verse fascia to corium smaller and more indistinct. 
Long. 5 millim. 
Hab. YKastern side of Corazon (12,000 ft.). 
Division Bryocoraria. 
Lyng, gen. nov., Dist. MS., in Whym. Trav. Great 
Andes, Append., p. 114 (1892). 
Allied to Ania, but differmg by the shorter and more ovate 
body; the basal jot of the antenne much shorter, very little 
longer than the head; the second joint half as long again as the 
first ; pronotum relatively shorter and broader. 
Lyde translucida, n.sp., Dist. MS., in Whym. Trav. 
Great Andes, Append., p. 114, n. 17; woodcut 
facing p. 113 (1892). 
Head dull ochraceous, with a black spot behind the eyes, which 
are greyish; antenne ochraceous, the outer margin of the basal 
joint, the apex of the second, the apical third of third, and the whole 
