31 G I\rr. W. L. Distant on Tlomoptera. 



and wings pale hyaline; tegmina with tlie venation fuscous, 

 costal menihrane and area, basal cell, and inner longit:adiual 

 vein to basal ulnar area pale green, claval area bright 

 ochraceou?, preceded by piceous shadings ; wings with the 

 venation ajiically tuscous brown, green towards base ; extreme 

 apical area bright ochraceous, streaked with piceous. 



Head (including eyes) about equal in width to base of 

 niesonotum, much deflected in front of eyes ; abdomen in 

 male very short, about as long as space between apex of head 

 and middle of niesonotum ; tarsi two-jointed; body beneath 

 and legs much more thickly and longly pilose than above ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxae; lateral margins of 

 pronotum centrally moderately sinuate ; opercula transverse, 

 outer angles a little posteriorly prolonged, posterior margins 

 concave, lateral margins convex. 



Long., exch tegm., ^ 27 mm. ; exp. tegm. 107 mm. 



Hah. Central Brazil : Chapada {A. Robert, Brit. Mus.). 



Fidicina lacteipennis, sp. n. 



$ . Body above brownish ochraceous, abdomen a little 

 darker and somewhat densely ochraceously pilose; head with 

 a transverse fascia extending through area of ocelli, a trans- 

 verse linear spot on each side of front, and inner margins of 

 eyes, black; pronotum with the incisures ])iceous brown; 

 niesonotum with four ill-defined macular obconical spots, of 

 which the two central are shortest, and with two small 

 indented piceous spots in front of cruciform elevation ; basal 

 segmental abdominal margins moderately piceous ; body 

 beneath densely griseously pilose ; face and legs ochraceous; 

 rostrum ochraceous, its apical half black ; tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, witii a creamy-white suffusion, extreme bases of both 

 ochraceous with some piceous markings; tegmina with the 

 veins piceous, those at basal area, the basal cell, and costal 

 membrane and area ochraceous ; wings with the veins 

 piceous, at the basal area ochraceous. Head (including eyes) 

 slightly wider than base of niesonotum ; length of head 

 about iialf the width between eyes and much shorter than 

 pronotum, which is almost as long as niesonotum ; cruciform 

 elevation anteriorly truncate, without produced anterior angles; 

 rostrum extending midway between intermediate and poste- 

 rior cox£e ; anterior femora armed with two strong spines 

 beneath. 



Long., excl. tegm., c? 29 mm. ; exp. tegm. 94 mm. 



IJab. Amazons (Brit. Mus,). 



