25G Mr. W. L. Distant on JS eotropical Peutatomidge. 



posterior angles of abdominal segments at lateral margins 

 distinctly prominent, tumescent ; rostrum reaching the 

 intermediate coxae, its apex black ; abdomen above testaceous 

 red. 



Long. 10-11 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 5^ mm. 



Hab. Patagonia; V. del Lago Xanco {Chubut, Brit. Mus.). 



. Allied to L. rurjosus, Sign., but larger, lateral angles more 



produced, colour of anteniue and body above different, &c. 



From L. testaceus, Reed, a species I have not seen, it differs 



by the totally different anteunse &c. 



Lanopis spkndens, sp n. 



Ochraceous ; head (excluding large basal spot), two oblique 

 discal longitudinal fasciae to pronotum, which are a little 

 widened posteriorly and more distinctly so at anterior 

 margin, scutellum (excluding apical area and corium) more 

 or less carmine-red ; antennas with the basal joint carmine- 

 red, second and third joints ochraceous, fourth and fifth 

 (excluding their extreme bases) piceous, first and third sub- 

 equal in length, second a little longest, fourth and fifth 

 subequal ; head sparingly punctate, the lateral lobes slightly 

 longer than the central, the former with their margins 

 slightly reflexed ; pronotum strongly rugulose and punctate, 

 the lateral angles very much as in L. chubuti, the anterior 

 angles shortly distinctly obtusely angulate ; scutellum 

 coarsely punctate, apical half distinctly centrally longitu- 

 dinally carinate ; corium thickly finely punctate, the lateral 

 margins slightly subangularly ampliated, apical margins 

 obliquely straight ; membrane dull ochraceous, subhyaline, 

 the veins a little darker, distinctly passing the abdominal 

 apex ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; abdomen beneath 

 and legs sprinkled with carmine-red; sternum coarsely 

 punctate ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxse, its apex 

 black ; abdomen above carmine-red, posterior angles of 

 abdominal segments at lateral margins distinctly prominent, 

 tumescent. 



Long. 10^-11 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5^-6 mm, 



Hab. Patagonia ; V. del Lago Xanco {^Chubut, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Planois. 



rimms, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) iii. p. 548 (1863). 

 Type, P. bimacidatus, Sign. 



Planois j^atagonus, sp. n. 

 Ochraceous, thickly punctate ; two small spots on anterior 



