Mr. W. L. Distant on Neotropical Peiitatomiclse. 255 



Pseudobebaeus yoyazemis, sp. n. 



Brownish ochraceous, speckled and punctured with black ; 

 liead thickly, darkly, coarsely punctate ; antennae brownish 

 ochraceous* the apical joint a little paler ; pronotuni ochra- 

 ceous, darkly punctate, more coarsely and thickly so on 

 anterior and posterior areas, on the paler discal interspace a 

 transverse series of four blackish spots, the broad apices of 

 the produced lateral angles black, rounded and with a short 

 spine anteriorly, concavcly sinuate and with a broader spine 

 posteriorly ; scutellum blackly punctate, a central, longitu- 

 dinal, subimpunctate linear marking, not reaching base; 

 corium thickly blackly punctate, a discal, longitudinal, im- 

 punctate space a little behind middle; membrane pale fuli- 

 ginous, the veins much darker ; body beneath brownish 

 ochraceous, finely darkly punctate on abdomen beneath, the 

 central longitudinal ridge almost impunctate; sternum more 

 coarsely punctate; apex of scutellum black; structural 

 characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 10 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 9 mm. 



Hub. Brazil ; Goyaz. 



Genus Lavopis. 



Lmwpis, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) iii. p. 549 (1863). 

 Type, L. rugosns, Sign. 



LaJiopis chubuti, sp. n. 



'Body and legs ochraceous ; antennse with tlie first, second, 

 and third joints magenta-red, fourth and fifth joints (ex- 

 cepting their extreme bases) piceous, first joint slightly 

 passing apex of head, second much longer than third and a 

 little longer than first, fourth and fifth subequal ; head 

 coarsely sparingly punctate, the lateral margins a little but 

 distinctly reflexed, lateral and central lobes subequal in 

 length; pronotum about half as long as breadth between 

 the lateral angles, punctate and rugulose, the lateral angles 

 broadly angularly produced, their margins anteriorly convex, 

 posteriorly oblique, their whole marginal area moderately 

 reflexed ; scutellum sparingly coarsely punctate, the poste- 

 rior half with a central longitudinal carination ; corium 

 thickly finely punctate, the lateral margins moderately 

 subangularly ampliate, apical margin obliquely straight, 

 membrane dull obscure hyaline, the veins darker, distinctly 

 passing the abdominal apex ; sternum coarsely punctate ; 



