﻿Mr. 
  W. 
  L. 
  Distant 
  on 
  Neotropical 
  Pentatomidas. 
  2-19 
  

  

  darkly 
  subapically 
  annulate; 
  spots 
  to 
  abdominal 
  lateral 
  

   margins 
  and 
  a 
  central 
  longitudinal 
  spot 
  to 
  sixth 
  abdominal 
  

   segment 
  black. 
  

  

  Long. 
  7 
  mm. 
  

  

  I 
  lab. 
  Chili 
  (Brit. 
  Mus.). 
  

  

  Differs 
  from 
  T. 
  galapagoensis, 
  Butl., 
  by 
  its 
  smaller 
  size, 
  

   more 
  acute 
  anterior 
  angles 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  and 
  more 
  

   reflexed 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  same 
  ; 
  body 
  more 
  elongate 
  and 
  

   less 
  ovate 
  than 
  in 
  Butler's 
  species. 
  

  

  Tr'mcavellius 
  peruviensis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Brownish 
  ochraceous, 
  finely 
  wrinkled 
  and 
  punctate; 
  head 
  

   large, 
  broad, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  breadth 
  between 
  the 
  outer 
  

   margins 
  of 
  eyes, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  distinctly 
  angularly 
  

   dilated 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  eyes, 
  anterior 
  margin 
  truncately 
  rounded 
  ; 
  

   antennas 
  with 
  the 
  first 
  joint 
  not 
  reaching 
  apex 
  of 
  head, 
  second 
  

   very 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  third, 
  third, 
  fourth, 
  and 
  fifth 
  

   almost 
  subequal 
  in 
  length, 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  joints 
  infuscate 
  ; 
  

   pronotum 
  with 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  oblique, 
  laminately 
  

   reflexed, 
  a 
  little 
  recurved 
  towards 
  their 
  apices, 
  which 
  are 
  

   distinctly 
  minutely 
  spined, 
  a 
  subobsolete 
  central 
  longitudinal 
  

   carinate 
  line 
  ; 
  corium 
  scarcely 
  wrinkled 
  but 
  thickly 
  finely 
  

   punctate 
  ; 
  membrane 
  hyaline, 
  very 
  slightly 
  passing 
  abdo- 
  

   minal 
  apex 
  ; 
  rostrum 
  reaching 
  the 
  posterior 
  coxae, 
  its 
  apex 
  

   fuscous 
  ; 
  body 
  beneath 
  and 
  legs 
  a 
  little 
  paler 
  than 
  above, 
  

   minutely 
  speckled 
  with 
  brown 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  with 
  a 
  longitu- 
  

   dinal 
  brownish 
  spot 
  near 
  apex 
  of 
  lateral 
  margins, 
  the 
  apex 
  

   itself 
  narrowly 
  ochraceous. 
  

  

  Long. 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Peru 
  ; 
  Callao. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  T. 
  galapagoensis, 
  Butl., 
  but 
  narrower, 
  head 
  more 
  

   truncate 
  in 
  front, 
  angle 
  at 
  anterior 
  margin 
  of 
  pronotum 
  

   more 
  acute, 
  lateral 
  pronotal 
  margins 
  much 
  more 
  oblique 
  

   membrane 
  longer, 
  &c. 
  ; 
  differs 
  from 
  chilensis, 
  Dist., 
  by 
  the 
  

   broader 
  body, 
  absence 
  of 
  black 
  spots 
  to 
  basal 
  angles 
  of 
  

   scutellum, 
  longer 
  membrane, 
  &c. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Loxa. 
  

   Loxa, 
  Amy. 
  & 
  Serv. 
  Hist. 
  Hem. 
  p. 
  137 
  (1843). 
  

   Type, 
  L. 
  flavicollis, 
  Drury. 
  

  

  Loxa 
  bartletti, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Dull 
  pale 
  ochraceous, 
  possibly 
  more 
  virescent 
  in 
  living 
  

   specimens 
  ; 
  eyes 
  and 
  lateral 
  pronotal 
  angles 
  black 
  ; 
  first 
  

  

  