68 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



spot at base immediately followed by two oblique spots, and 

 an angulate spot occupying tbe apical area ; abdomen above 

 testaceous ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; apical 

 area of face and the clypeus shining black, clypeus with an 

 ochraceous spot on each side of base ; lateral areas of seg- 

 mental margins blackish or the whole ventral surface pale 

 concolorous; tegmina castaneous, the veins and a number of 

 irregular spots ochraceous, the spots irregular in shape and 

 size, but not extending to the apical cells, which are dull 

 ochraceous and unspotted ; wings pale bronzy, the apical and 

 posterior margins infuscate ; vertex as long as breadth be- 

 tween eyes, broadly rounded in front, a short incised longi- 

 tudinal line at base ; face broadly centrally longitudinally 

 flattened, finely and obscurely granulose, the lateral areas 

 transversely striate ; pronotum almost smooth, neither 

 punctate nor striate; anterior tibiae sulcate. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ 13^ mm. ; exp. tegm. 26 mm. 



Hab. Peru (Rosenberg, Brit. Mus.). 



Oncometopia personata. 



Tettigonia personata, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) ii. p. 364, t. xii. fig. 14 



(1854). 

 Aulacizes magnifrons, Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 238 (1858). 



Hab. Brazil. 



Genus Stictoscarta. 

 Stictoscarta, St81, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 61 (1869). 

 Type, S. sulcicollis, Germ. 



Stictoscarta marcia, sp. n. 



Vertex dull ochraceous, cruciformly banded with black, 

 the central longitudinal line broadened apically and basally, 

 the transverse line immediately in front of the ocelli ; pro- 

 notum ochraceous, a central longitudinal line, a narrow 

 irregular transverse fascia near anterior margin, a waved 

 transverse fascia on basal area (sometimes continued to 

 base), and a longitudinal line on each lateral area connecting 

 the two transverse fascite, castaneous ; scutellum greenish 

 ochraceous, with two large spots at basal angles which are 

 narrowly fused on basal margin and again transversely 

 connected near middle, black ; abdomen above testaceous ; 

 body beneath pale ochraceous ; face mottled with piceous ; 

 clypeus castaneous ; legs more or less brownish; tegmina 



