Mr. W. L. Distant 07i Ilomopteia. 197 



Calyptoproctus fascipennis, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale ocliraceous ; front of head witli a 

 contra! linear black spot ; abdomen above with the sef^rnental 

 margins and anal appendage black ; legs spotted with 

 fuscous ; tegmina pale pnri)lish red for nearly basal half, the 

 remaining a})ical area, costal membrane, and claval margin 

 pale dull ocliraceous, more or less spotted with fuscous, more 

 ])rominently so on costal margin ; wings subhyaline, very 

 pale fuliginous, darker towards apex, the venation black, 

 extreme base virescent ; basal segment of abdomen above 

 with central small rounded callosities; rostrum reaching the 

 posterior cosfe, its apex black; posterior tibiro with four 

 spines, three beyond middle, one near base. 



Long., excl. tegm., 12 mm. ; exp. tegm. 31 mm. 



llah. N.W. Ecuador; Kio Durango {Roseiiberrjj Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Genus Pelidnopepla. 



Pelidnopepla, StSl, Hem. Fabr. ii. pp. 88 & 89 note (1869). 

 Type, P. obscia-a, Fabr. 



Ptlidnopepla ohscura. 



Lijiitra obscura, Fabr. Syst. Rhyn.Qr. p. 59. 9 (180-3). 

 VeUdnopei)la obscura, Stfil, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 89 (1869). 

 Poiocera ni(jrifro7is, Walk. liis. Saiind., Hem. p. 34 (1858). 



Genus Scaralis. 



Scaralis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv. p. 241 (1863). 

 Type, S. picta, Germ. 



Scaralis versicolor, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and legs olivaceous brown ; pronotum with 

 two large central spots and tw^o smaller spots on each lateral 

 area ; mesonotum with two large, central, contiguous, curved 

 and angulated spots, a small spot near each side of them 

 near base, and two spots on each lateral area, margins 

 of metanotum, about posterior half of face, two central fasciate 

 spots to clypeus, tibiae, tarsi, and apex of rostrum, piceous or 

 black ; abdomen testaceous red, above with a broad central 

 black fascia and the whole of apical segment (excluding 

 posterior margin) black, beneath with black lateral spots and 

 apical segment olivaceous brown ; tegmina with about basal 

 two thirds black, opaque, with the venation ocliraceous, a 



