196 "Mr. AV. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



foveate (imperfectly seen in the badly pinned type) ; tegmina 

 about three times as long as broad. 



Long., excl, tegm., 8^ mm. ; exp. tegm. 24 mm. 



Hab. Brazil (Fry Coll., Brit. Mus.). 



Tomaspisjonesi, sp. n. 

 untformiSf Sign. MS. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale ochraceous ; abdo- 

 men above, body beneath, and legs sanguineous ; a spot 

 near apex of scutellum, anterior and intermediate tarsi and 

 apices of posterior tarsi, eyes, and apex of rostrum black; 

 lateral margins of presternum ochraceous ; tegmina pale 

 ochraceous, with a broad transverse fascia near middle and 

 about the apical fourth black; wings pale smoky hyaline; 

 vertex about as long as breadth between eyes ; face broad, 

 rounded, not angulate (of the Monecphora type), centrally 

 longitudinally ridged; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae ; pronotum very finely transversely wrinkled; scutellum 

 discally foveately depressed ; posterior tibise with two spines, 

 one near base, the other a little beyond middle. 



Long., excl. tegm., 8 mm. ; exp. tegm. 24 mm. 



Hab. Brazil ; Parana {E. Duklnfield Jones, Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Rio Negro (Coll. Dist.). 



Many years ago I received a specimen labelled uniformis, 

 MS., from my lamented friend Dr. Signoret, and probably 

 there is a similarly identified specimen in the Vienna 

 Museum, in which Dr. Signoret's collection is located. 



Tomaspis saccharina, sp. n. 



Tomaspis pictijyenyiis, Uhler {nee StSl), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1895, 

 p. 58. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum dark bronzy ; abdomen 

 above and beneath sanguineous ; face, sternum, legs, and a 

 sublateral fascia on each side of abdomen beneath bluish 

 black; tegmina piceous brown, with two transverse whitish 

 fascise, the first broadest and slightly oblique before middle, 

 the second narrower and nearly straight beyond middle ; 

 wings hyaline with the veins fuscous ; vertex broader than 

 long, rounded in front, centrally carinate and longitudinally 

 depressed on each side before the eyes ; face compressed, 

 centrally longitudinally carinate, somewhat regularly rounded 

 to clypeus [Monecphora type); tegmina less than three 

 times longer than broad. 



Var. a, — A broad whitish streak in claval suture, united 

 with the first transverse whitish fascia. 



