244 Mr. VV. L. Distant on Neotropical Pentatomidas. 



specimen ; proiiotum and scntellum thicklj^ but very finely 

 punctate ; body beneath thickly finely punctate. 



Long. 9 mm. 



Hab. Peru. 



Puhjtes bicolor, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, body beneath, and legs black or piceous ; 

 scutellum sanguineous^ its basal margin black ; two con- 

 tiguous spots near anterior margin and narrow lateral 

 margins of prosternum, apex of central lobe to head, coxal 

 spots, and a lunate spot at apex of abdomen ochraceous ; 

 antennje black, first, second, and third joints short, almost 

 subequal in lengtli, fourth and fifth considerably longer and 

 also subequal in length ; head punctate and finely wrinkled, 

 the lateral margins rather strongly sinuate ; pronotum and 

 scutellum thickly but very finely punctate; body beneath 

 thickly, finely, but distinctly punctate ; rostrum piceous or 

 black. 



Long. 8| mm. 



Hab. Peru. 



Genus Chelycoris. 



Demoleus, StSl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forli. 1867, p. 493 (num. prajocc). 

 Chvlyccris, Bergr. Eev. Ent. x. p. 235 (1891), u. nom. 



Type, C. scitulus, Walk. 



Chelycoris vittatus, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum ochraceous, thickly, coarsely, darkly 

 punctate; head with the apex of the central lobe somewhat 

 distinctly prominent ; ocelli red, much nearer eyes than to 

 each other ; antennae ochraceous, first, second, and third 

 joints shortest and subequal in length, fourth and fifth 

 longest and subequal ; pronotum with the lateral margins 

 slightly laminate, oblique, concolorously punctate, lateral 

 angles rounded, longer tlian head, about twice as broad at 

 base as medial length, declivous towards head at less than 

 one-third from base, the disk moderately rugulose ; scutel- 

 lum ochraceous, thickly finely punctate, with two broad dark 

 oblique fasciae Avith a common origin at base and obliquely 

 directed on each side to a little beyond middle, where they 

 are outwardly broadened and a little upturned ; between these 

 fasciae and the lateral margins near base is a somewhat 

 circular patch of the same dark colour, some of the punctures 

 in these dark areas are blackish, longer than broad at base. 



