416 Rey. Canon Fowler on some 
A small short species, testaceous, with the metopidium, the very 
short bluntly rounded horn of pronotum, the apical portion of the 
two strong caring above shoulders, and the very blunt apex fuscous: 
the dorsum if viewed from the side is much depressed behind 
middle, and is extended into a short, blunt, very slightly deflexed 
apex ; if viewed from the front the metopidium is large and broad, 
and appears to be furnished with five points formed by the anterior 
. horn, the apex of the two suprahumeral carinz and the slightly 
prominent shoulders ; tegmina hyaline, with obscure dark markings, 
underside fuscous, hinderpart testaceous ; legs testaceous. Long, 
cum tegm., 5 mm. ; lat. int. hum., 3 mm. 
Hab. Rio Janeiro. ¢. (Belgium Museum Collection.) 
This species is closely allied to Hrecthia bicolor, Walk., 
and also resembles Tropidoscyta torva, Stal (Membracis 
torva, Germ.) ; it is one of the species that complete the 
transition from Membracis to Bolbonota; no two genera 
can well be less alike than these, yet connecting forms 
occur which make it almost impossible to separate the 
intervening genera satisfactorily. 
Bolbonota rufo-notata, sp. n. 
Parva, nigra, pronoto carinato, a latere viso fere sequali, apice 
depresso, humeris, dorsoque plus minusve, rufo-ferrugineis ; 
tegminibus pellucidis, basi nigré vel nigro-brunned, venis fuscis ; 
pedibus rufis vel ferrugineis. 
A small species, variable in colour, black with the shoulders and 
more or less of the disc of the pronotum of a ferruginous red 
colour, sometimes the black and sometimes the red colour pre- 
vailing ; the pronotum is carinate and uneven if viewed from ahove, 
but if viewed from the side the central carina is almost level to 
apex, where it is depressed ; punctuation coarse but obscure; 
tegmina transparent, hyaline, with the base black or brownish-black, 
sometimes ferruginous internally, veins dark and conspicuous; legs 
red or ferruginous. Long. 2 mm. ; lat. int. hum., 13 mm. 
Hab. New Granada (Nolken), (Vienna Museum 
Collection) ; five examples. 
The species is allied to B. pusto, Germ., but the latter 
species is considerably larger, longer in proportion, quite 
black, and more coarsely punctured, with the dorsum 
more level and the apex differently formed; it is also 
closely akin to B. inxqualis, Fab., but, apart from the 
colour, it is much more finely punctured than that species 
and has the dorsum more level if viewed from the side. 
