202 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



Long., excl. tegra., 11 mm.; exp. tegm. 32 mm. 



Hab. Chili. 



The type of this species was given me many years ago 

 by my late friend Stephen Burton, a coleopterist. He had 

 received it from Edwin Reed, by whom it had been collected. 



Tomaspis fraseri, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and sternum castaneous; legs 

 and abdomen testaceous red, the latter paler above than 

 beneath ; tegmina pitchy black, sutt'used with sanguineous 

 on basal area, folloAvcd by two spots in oblique series (one in 

 and the other above clavus), a subcostal spot before a])ical 

 area, and another more oblique spot parallel to it near inner 

 margin sanguineous ; wings pale fuliginous ; vertex about 

 as long as breadth between eyes, rather angularly rounded 

 in front and centrally longitudinally carinate ; pronotum 

 wrinkled and thickly finely punctate, centrally longitudinally 

 carinate; scutellum foveately depressed on disk, the apical 

 area transversely M'rinklcd ; face compressed, angulate poste- 

 riorly, strongly centrally longitudinally carinate {Sphenorhina 

 type) ; posterior tibise with two spines, the shorter near 

 base, the longer near apex ; tegmina about two and a half 

 times as long as broad. 



Long., excl. tegm., 10 mm. ; exp. tegm. 23 mm. 



Hab. Ecuador; Cuenca {Fraser, Brit. Mus.). 



Tomaspis proserpina, sp. n. 



Vertex^ pronotum, scutellum, face, sternum, and legs san- 

 guineous ; abdomen and spots to mesonotum black ; base 

 of al)domen above sanguineous ; posterior femora (more or 

 less) and apices of posterior tihite and tarsi piceous ; tegmina 

 black, basal fourth and costal margin sanguineous, the basal 

 red space usually but not invariably marked with a macular 

 piceous stripe; vertex about as long as breadth between eyes, 

 a little pointed anteriorly, foveately depressed at apex and 

 on each side before the eyes ; face moderately compressed, 

 pointed posteriorly {Sphenorhina type) ; pronotum finely 

 granulose, centrally ridged from anterior margin to about 

 middle, on anterior area and on each side of the ridge dis- 

 tinctly foveately depressed, lateral margins oblique, sharply 

 and distinctly reflexed ; scutellum with the disk ovately 

 foveate; posterior tibiae with a strong spine near apex and 

 a short spine near base; tegmina about two and a half times 

 as long as broad. 



Long., excl. tegm., 7 mm. ; exp. tegm. 20 mm. 



Hab. Bolivia; Yungas de la Paz (Brit. Mus.). 



