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Diedrocephala cleora, sp. n. 



Vertex and pronotum black ; pronotnm with a large white 

 spot, the posterior half of which is a little wider and more or 

 less convex behind, this spot commences on anterior margin, 

 reaching or passing the middle of disk ; scutellum white, a 

 large triangular spot at each basal angle, narrowly connected 

 on basal margin, black ; body beneath and legs greyish 

 white ; tegmina purplish, a large semicircular spot on middle 

 of claval suture, a rounded spot near claval apex, and the 

 costal area much more or less angularly widened interiorly, 

 Avhite, apex black, preceded and margined with a transverse 

 ochraceous spot ; vertex flat, about as long as breadth 

 between eyes, subangularly anteriorly produced, centrally, 

 obscurely, longitudinally, linearly sulcate, the margins 

 distinctly reflexed ; face with the disk longitudinally flat- 

 tened, the lateral areas transversely ridged ; scutellum trans- 

 versely impressed near middle. 



Long., incl. tegrn., 9^-10^ mm. 



Hab. Ecuador; Cachabe {Rosenberg^ Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to D.flavoguttata, Latr. 



Diedrocephala estella, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum black ; vertex with 

 narrow lateral and apical margins and a central linear spot 

 at apex ochraceous ; lateral margins of pronotum very 

 narrowly and obscurely paler ; head beneath, sternum, and 

 legs pale ochraceous ; apices of the tarsi black ; abdomen 

 beneath dark ochraceous, the connexivum testaceous ; teg- 

 mina purplish black, the apical area sanguineous, with its 

 posterior margin black, and a small pale ochraceous costal 

 spot at its inner margin ; inner claval margin narrowly paler 

 or castaneous. 



Var. — Body beneath paler and more greyish ; apical area 

 of tegmina pale brownish ochraceous, not sanguineous. 



Vertex broad, about as long as breadth between eyes, sub- 

 conically rounded anteriorly, centrally longitudinally sulcate; 

 face centrally longitudinally flattened, the lateral areas 

 transversely striate ; pronotum very finely transversely 

 wrinkled in some specimens on its anterior area, a short pale 

 longitudinal line; apices of tegmina subtruncately rounded. 



Long., incl. tegm., 9 mm. 



Hab. Ecuador; Cachabe {Rosenberg, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to D. notanda, Fowl., but with the vertex more 

 rounded and much less angulate anteriorly ; colour-markings 

 of the tegmina different. 



