Mr. W. L. Distant on ITomoptera. 203 



Tomaspis hehes, sp. u. 



Vertex, pronotum, scutellum, base of abdomen, face, 

 clypeus, and broad lateral areas to the prosternum ochraceous; 

 abdomen above, body beneath, and legs shining black ; 

 tegmina black, the basal fifth golden yellow ; wings pale 

 fuliginous; vertex about as long as breadth between eyes, 

 a little angularly narrowed before eyes, longitadinaliy im- 

 pressed on each side of ocelli ; face compressed, posteriorly 

 pointed, thence oblique to clypeus, centrally longitudinally 

 ridged ; pronotum foveately depressed on each side of 

 anterior area, the lateral margins sharply reflexed ; posterior 

 tibiae with a prominent spine a little before apex ; tegmina 

 about two and a half times as long as broad. 



Var. — Tegmina with a golden-yellow costal spot a little 

 beyond middle. 



Long., excl. tcgm., 8^-9 mm. ; exp. tegm. 23-24 mm. 



Hah. Bolivia ; Yungas de la Paz (Brit. Mas.). 



Allied to T. proserpina by the somewhat angulate vertex, 

 which but for intermediate forms would apparently denote 

 another genus. 



Tomaspis dimorpha, sp. n. 



^ . Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum castaneous-brown ; 

 abdomen above black, its base sanguineous ; body beneath 

 black, legs piceous ; sternum and coxae more or less testa- 

 ceous red ; tegmina brownish ochraceous, the apical area 

 yellowish, defined inwardly by a transverse black fascia 

 which is continued on costal mai'gin to apex, the pale apical 

 area very coarsely reticulately veined, and in most of these 

 cellules is a piceous-brown spot ; wings pale ochraceous, 

 slightly sanguineous at base. 



Var. — ? . Vertex, pronotum, scutellum, and tegmina black, 

 on the latter the transverse fascia defining the pale apical 

 area is thus indistinguishable. 



Face compressed, elongate, almost perpendicularly directed 

 downward, where it terminates in a somewhat sharp point 

 {Sphenorhina type), and strongly centrally longitudinally 

 ridged ; vertex about as long as breadth between eyes, with 

 a central longitudinal carination, "on each side of which is 

 another and shorter carination not reaching base ; pronotum 

 rugulose and punctate, centrally longitudinally carinate, 

 broadly foveately depressed on each side of anterior area, the 

 anterior lateral margins distinctly refiexed ; scutellum with 

 the disk broadly foveately de|)ressed ; tegmina about two 

 and one-third times as long as broad. 



