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segment dark castaneous ; tegmina bronzy brown, a narrow 

 transverse fascia near base above claval area and a broad 

 transverse fascia before apex subhyaline ; wings subhyaline, 

 the veins piceous, structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long., excl. tegm., 9 9 mm. ; exp. tegm. 20 mm. 



Hub. Paraguay ; San Bernardino (K. Fiebrig, Brit. Mus.) . 



b. Apical area of the scutettum not hirsute. 



Teletusa peruviensis, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum black, sparingly finely 

 pilose ; a small spot on vertex near each ocellus and lateral 

 margins and two small transverse spots near anterior margin 

 of pronotum stramineous ; apical area of scutellum margined 

 on each side with a metanotal fasciate stramineous spot ; 

 abdomen above black, a transverse stramineous spot on the 

 lateral margins of second segment, the posterior margins of 

 the last two segments obscurely narrowly stramineous ; head 

 beneath, sternum, and legs black ; a lateral longitudinal 

 fascia on each side of face, a broad subapical annulation to 

 the intermediate and posterior tibiae, and the abdomen 

 beneath stramineous, the latter with some large spots on the 

 connexivum, and the anterior margin of the third segment, 

 black, in many specimens the abdomen beneath is black, with 

 only the two basal segments stramineous ; tegmina with the 

 basal half pale brownish, the apical half subhyaline, all the 

 veins piceous ; wings hyaline, with the veins piceous ; anterior 

 tibiae broadly dilated and broadly sulcate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 7 mm. ; exp. tegm. 18 mm. 



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



Teletusa neotropicalis, sp. n. 



Vertex black, ocelli very narrowly margined with ochra- 

 ceous ; proDotum testaceous, the lateral margins narrowly 

 stramineous, the anterior margin broadly black and con- 

 taining two transverse stramineous spots j scutellum black, 

 its apical area margined on each side with a metanotal 

 fasciate testaceous spot; head, beneath, sternum, and legs 

 black ; a lateral longitudinal fascia on each side of face, 

 posterior margin of presternum, a broad subapical annulation 

 to intermediate and posterior tibiae, and. the abdomen beneath 

 stramineous, the latter strongly marked with black on the 

 posterior half and on the connexivum ; tegmina with more 

 than the basal half ochraceous, remaining area subhyaline, 

 with the veins piceous, near middle the costal area is more 



