genera and species of Neotropical Rhynchota. 91 
of the fourth joint, fuscous; pronotum pale ochraceous, the punc- 
tures on the basal half dark and pale brownish, the anterior collar 
greyish and margined with black both above and beneath, the pre- 
ceding constriction dark ochraceous, the lateral angles subnodulose 
and dark fuscous; scutellum black; corium pale hyaline, base of 
costal margin and an oblique linear spot near inner apex blackish ; 
cuneus pale hyaline ; membrane pale hyaline, very slightly infus- 
cated ; anterior legs pale ochraceous, remainder mutilated. Body 
beneath pale ochraceous, sternum with two blackish marginal 
oblique spots. 
Long. 4} millim. 
Hab. Pichincha (12,000 ft.). 
Fam. ARADIDA. 
Subfam. BRACHYRHYNCHIN AS. 
Division Brachyrhyncharia. 
Cinyphus ? obscurus, n. sp., Dist. MS., in Whym. Tray. 
Great Andes, Append., p. 114, n. 18; woodcut, 
p- 115 (1892). 
Fuliginous brown ; legs and antenne darker and more fuscous ; 
apex of the last joint of antenn and bases of the tibix ochraceous; 
eyes obscure greyish; apex of the corium pale fuscous ; body 
beneath very dark fuscous; coxe ochraceous, tarsi beneath with 
their bases distinctly ochraceous; rostrum brownish ochraceous, 
its apex somewhat pitchy. The head has a long prominent spine 
on each side in front of the eyes at the base of the antennwe, and a 
second more obtuse spine behind the eyes; antennzx with the basal 
joint globosely incrassated and reaching apex of head, which is 
cleft; third joint slightly longer than first ; fourth globosely in- 
crassated, and subequal to, or a little shorter than, second ; pro- 
notum with the anterior angles lobately produced, behind which 
the lateral margins are concavely sinuated, convexly round at 
middle, and then obliquely truncated to lateral angles; basal 
margin slightly concave betore base of scutellum, disk of anterior 
lobe with two central stout obtuse tubercles ; scutellum with two 
central large and deep fover; corium slightly and lobately pro- 
duced at base of costal margin. 
Long. 8 millim. 
Hab. Forests above the Bridge of Chimbo (1—800 ft.). 
I have provisionally retained this species in the genus 
Cinyphus, to which it has the strongest affinities. It 
differs, however, in the structure of the antenne, and 
