Mr. W. ]j. Distnnf on CoreiMaa. 7 



Genus Lamink r.i's. 

 Laminicepa megcera. 



Pan/f)hrs viegcrra, V>\\r\\\. Tlaiidb. ii. p. .3.%. n. 3 (1835). 



Lammiceps tiifffora, Still, Kn. Horn. i. p. l/5<3. n. 1 (1870), cum synon. 



This epccies lias been emitted in the Ciitalogue of Ijcthieny 

 and Sevcrin (rf. t. ii. p. .'U, Lmniniceps). 



l^nininicfjjs fcstivus^ sp. n. 



Head Muish green, eyes ochraccous, antennto fnscou3 ; pro- 

 notuni oehraceous, witli two hirj^e discal, subquadrato, indii^o- 

 blue spots, wliicli do not reach tlie posterior or lateral mar^^ins 

 and arc more remote from the anterior margin; scutellum 

 indigo-blue, witli a central longitudinal oehraceous fa.scia, 

 which is broadest at base and apex ; cerium dark bluish black, 

 crossed at base of membrane by a transverse oehraceous 

 fascia ; membrane black. Head and body beneath oehra- 

 ceous ; rostrum, a spot beneath bases of antenna?, a spot near 

 intermediate and posterior coxa?, and the legs bluish green ; 

 bases of anterior and intermediate femora, base and under 

 surface of posterior femora oehraceous, the last with the 

 femoral spines blackisli. 



The pronotum has the dark sj)Ots thickly and coarsely 

 punctate, the remaining area more sparingly punctate ex- 

 cepting the anterior margin, which is almost impunctate ; 

 lateral margins obscurely crenulate ; scutellum transversely 

 rugulose and coarsely punctate, corium thickly and finely 

 punctate. 



(^ . Posterior femora incrassate, curved, and with a series 

 of spines beneath which gradually increase in size from near 

 base to apex. 



Long., cJ, 18 millim. 



Hah. Amazons (Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to L. fasciatus, Dall., and L. Cdrdinalix, Stal ; from 

 the first it is at once separated by the difl'crent markings and 

 ct)lour of the femora, from the second by the markings of the 

 pronotum and scutellum, different colour of the legs, &c. 



Lanii'niceps siitiiptuosuSj sp. n. 



Above dark bluish green ; basal and lateral margins of 

 head, anterior area, lateral margins of pronotum (narrowly), 

 and a central longitudinal fascia to pronotum, scutellum, 

 bases of corium and clavus, apex of clavus connected with a 

 broad transverse fascia to corium, body bcnoath and lrg.<* 



