190 Mr. W. L. Distant on Tlomoptora. 



Sphodroscarta bimaculata, sp. n. 



Black ; eyes and abdominal segmental margins ochraceous ; 

 tegmina with two large white spots on inner margin, one 

 crossing clavus a little before its apex, the other and smaller 

 at the lower part of apical margin; wings dark fuli- 

 ginous; vertex a little more tlian half as long as breadth 

 between eyes, somewhat angularly produced, the lateral 

 margins oblique, the basal margin obtusely angularly sinuate, 

 two short carniate lines not reaching base, each situate 

 ontside the region of the ocelli ; pronotum not carinate, but 

 centrally longitudinally depressed, the anterior lateral mar- 

 gins very short, the posterior lateral margins aljout as long 

 as the posterior margin, which is strongly angularly concave; 

 scutelluDi much longer than broad, its disk centrally longi- 

 tudinally depressed; posterior tibise with two strong spines. 



Long., excl. tegra., ? 12 mm. ; exp. tegm. 30 mm. 



Hab. Bolivia; Yungas de la Paz, 



Subfam. Cescopin^. 



Genus Hyboscarta. 



Hyhoscarta, Jacobi, SB. Ges. uaturf. Fr. Berlin, 1008, no. ><, p, 2C8. 

 Type, H. ruhrica, Jacobi. 



Hyboscarta insignis. 



Monecphora insignis, Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 178 (18-58). 

 Hah. Amazons. 



Hyhoscarta semivitrea. 



Sphetiorhiiia semivitrea, "SValk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 184 (1858). 

 Hab. Amazons. 



Hyboscarta ti-icolor, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scntellum, body beneath, anterior and 

 intermediate femora (posterior legs mutilated in specimen 

 described), and less than basal half of tegmina, sanguineous ; 

 two central spots to mesosternum, anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae and tarsi, black ; a little more than apical half of 

 tegmina ochraceous, subhyahne, the lateral and subapical 

 margins of this area broadly black, extending to apex of 

 clavus; pronotum and tegmina thickly finely punctate; 



