Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 195 



Tomaspis spedabilis, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum dull reddisli castaneous ; 

 abdomen above, face, sternum, and legs sanguineous ; abdo- 

 Dfien beneath, spots and suffusions to sternum, longitudinal 

 stripes to intermediate femora, posterior femora (excludino* 

 apices), tarsi (excluding extreme base), and apical joint of 

 rostrum black ; abdomen beneath with the posterior seg- 

 mental margins (narrowly) and the lateral margins (some- 

 what broadly) sanguineous; tegmina ochraceous, narrow 

 costal margin extending round apex to apex of clavus, centre 

 of posterior claval margin, claval apex, and an irregular 

 central longitudinal fascia, irregularly widened at about one- 

 third from base and continued to near apex, black ; claval 

 suture piceous ; wings dark fuliginous, their extreme bases 

 sanguineous ; vertex subangulate in front and distinctly 

 longitudinally cariuate; lace moderately compressed, strongly 

 centrally carinate and transversely striate (of the Monecphora 

 form) ; pronotum very finely and thickly wrinkled, obscurely 

 finely, centrally, longitudinally carinate, the carination not 

 reaching the anterior margin, the anterior lateral margins 

 slightly refiexed ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxcc. 



Long., excl. tegm., 10 mm. ; exp. tegm. 29 mm. 



Hub. Bolivia (J. Steinbach, Brit. Mus.). 



Tomaspis fryi, sp. n. 



Vertex piceous, with a slightly arched transverse ochraceous 

 fascia between the eyes; pronotum with the basal two-thirds 

 piceous-brown, margined anteriorly with a transverse black 

 line, in front of which the anterior area is ochraceous, as 

 is also a lateral spot on each side behind the black line; 

 scutellum piceous, with a pale ochraceous spot at commence- 

 ment of apical area ; abdomen above piceous, sanguineous 

 at base, the connexivum ochraceous with black spots ; face 

 orange-yellow with a black basal line ; body beneath and 

 legs pale ochraceous; sternal and coxal spots, apices of 

 femora, anterior tibiae, bases and apices of intermediate and 

 posterior tibise, the tarsi, narrow segmental margins and a 

 longitudinal line at inner margins of connexivum, piceous or 

 black; tegmina black; basal half of clavus, a basal linear 

 costal spot, a longitudinal streak to corium, commencing at 

 base above clavus and gradually narrowing to a subapical 

 and subcostal quadrate spot, pale ochraceous; wings fuli- 

 ginous ; face broad and flatly rounded, of the Monecphora 

 form ; vertex about as long as breadth between eyes, sub- 

 conically rounded in front ; scutellum broadly discally 



