24 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



margins concavely sinuate ; abdomen in male about as lon^^ 

 as space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; 

 tympana entirely exposed, tympanal coverings completely 

 absent ; opercula in male small, broad, transverse ; tegmina 

 and wings liyaline or semihyaline ; tegmina with the basal 

 cell broad, only a little longer than broad, apical areas eight; 

 wings with six apical areas. 

 Type, A. neoiropicalis, Dist. 



Ahomana neotropicalis, sp. n. 



Body above blacky somewhat thickly greyishly pilose ; 

 head with a central fascia to front, pronotura with the ante- 

 rior and posterior margins (nariowly) and the lateral margins 

 (broadly), posterior margins of meso- and metasterna, and 

 cruciform elevation (excluding anterior angles), ochraceous ; 

 body beneath piceous, thickly pilose ; a central longitudinal 

 fascia to face, rostrum, coxae, and legs ochraceous ; anterior 

 and intermediate coxae pale castaneous, their apices ochra- 

 ceous ; anterior tibije and tarsi, apices of intermediate tibiae 

 and the tarsi, piceous ; tegmina and wings semihyaline, talc- 

 like, the venation ochraceous ; tegmina with the costal 

 membrane ochraceous, the venation on apical area fuscous. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 11\ ? 22 mm. ; exp. tegm., S ? » 

 52-55 mm. 



llah. Peru: Callao (Brit. Mus.) ; Paraguay (Brit. Mus.). 



Ahomana chilensis, sp. n. 



S . Body black ; sternum, opercula, and legs ochraceous ; 

 abdomen tinely greyishly pilose, sternum longly thickly 

 pilose ; apical areas of intermediate and posterior femora, 

 posterior tibias (excluding bases and apices), and apical area 

 of rostrum castaneous, intermediate tibia3 piceous, their bases 

 ochraceous (anterior legs mutilated in specimen described) ; 

 lateral margins of face ochraceous ; head with a short longi- 

 tudinal, basal, ochraceous fascia; pronotum with the lateral 

 areas castaneous, its margins, a central longitudinal fascia, 

 and two central basal spots ochraceous ; mesonotum with two 

 curved discal linear spots, a spot on each lateral area, and the 

 cruciform elevation with two central spots and its anterior 

 angles ochraceous ; tegmina and wings semihyaline, venation 

 ochraceous or fuscous, extreme bases of botli ochraceous ; 

 tegmina with costal membrane and claval area ochraceous, 

 the transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas 

 slightly infuscate. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 22 mm.; exp. tegm. C8 mm. 



[lah. Chili [Reed, Brit. Mus.). 



