210 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



margins laminately reflexed ; scutellum transversely striate 

 and discally broadly ovately depressed, its apex mutilated in 

 typical specimen ; abdomen shining indigo-black, above 

 prominently centrally ridged, and laterally oi'liquely deflected 

 on each side, the connexivura broad and distinct, the margins 

 of the latter longly pilose; legs pilose and robust; wings 

 short, little more than halt" the length of tegmina, pale fuli- 

 ginous, with the veins darker. 



Long., excl. tegni., 16 mm.; exp. tegm. 35 mm. 



Hab. Brazil? (Brit. Mus.). 



The specimen on which this genus and species are founded 

 is contained in the collection of the late Alexander Fry, and 

 which was bequeathed to the British Museum. All the 

 Kliynchota in this collection were from Brazil. 



Korobona conspicua, sp. n. 



Vertex black, the ocelli reddish ; pronotura dull testaceous- 

 red, two curved black spots near anterior margin (one on 

 each side of the central carination) and two piceous curved 

 fascicC each extending from the anterior black spots parallel 

 to the central carination, looped at base, conti:iued along the 

 posterior lateral margins and terminating before the humeral 

 angles ; scutellum, abdomen above, body beneath, and legs 

 more or less black, the abdomen above shining bluish black, 

 with the transverse basal foveations pale luteous ; face, 

 clypeus, and lateral margins of prosternum pale sanguineous, 

 with a longitudinal fascia extending from base (where it is 

 narrowest) beneath the costal area to near apex and attached 

 to two fused inwardly directed spots on apical margin, and 

 two discal longitudinal spots (one above apical half of clavus, 

 the other above the next longitudinal vein), piceous ; wings 

 hyaline, fuliginous on basal and marginal areas, and with 

 the veins black ; pronotum finely wrinkled and obscurely 

 punctate, with a distinct central longitudinal carination 

 almost extending to base and apex, the anterior lateral 

 margins slightly, the posterior lateral margins very strongly 

 sinuate ; scutellum strongly transversely striate, its disk 

 broadly, ovately, moderately depressed ; face as in generic 

 diagnosis ; rostrum pa^^sing the intermediate coxte. 



Long., excl. tegm., 21 mm. ; exp. tegm. 51 mm. 



Hab. Brazil. 



I have no more precise locality for this fine species. 



Mahanarva, gen. nov. 

 Head robust, subtriangular, about as long as the breadth 



