Mr. W. L. Distant on Corei<ln\ 419 



Leploscelis egregia. 



Le/itMcelin er/ret/ia, Stal, Ann. Soc. Knt. Fr. l^Go, p. 182. 

 J/i/jjeelonvtua luteiceps, Walk. Cat. Ikt. iv. p. 139. u. 12 (1871). 



Genus Malvana. 

 Mdlvana minax. 



llypielotiutus mj'/K/.r, Walk. Cat. Hut. iv. p. l-'.H. n. 11 (1871). 



Genus PiiTiiiA. 



Phthia smaragJina. 



Sphictyrtus smaraijdintis, Walk. Cat. Ilet. iv. p. 137. ii. 7 (1871). 



The unique type of Walker is a specimen without legs 

 and with a much damajLjed abdomen. Nevertheless it is 

 doubtless a species of Phthia and allied to P. canthnridina^ 

 Bergr., with which it agrees in its unicolorous hue above, 

 but differs in its unicolorous sternum. 



Phthia affinis, sp. n. 



Above olivaceous green ; head, anterior area of pronotum, 

 and body beneath bright metallic green ; a transverse arcuated 

 fascia to pronotum, a broad transverse fascia to corium (nar- 

 rowing inwardly), a large subtriangular spot on each lateral 

 area of the prosternum, central area of sternum from anterior 

 coxse, and first, second, and third abdominal segments, poste- 

 rior ujargin.s of fourth and fitth segments, coxaj, trochanters, 

 femoia, and extreme bases of tibire, ochraceous ; rostrum 

 ochraceous, the basal joint green, the fourth joint fuscous 

 beneath. 



Pronotum with the lateral angles acutely produced, the 

 lateral margins moderately convex and distinctly pilose ; 

 pronotum, scutellum, and corium somewhat coarsely punc- 

 tate ; abdomen globular and somewhat inflated beneath. 



Long. 20 millim,; exp. pronot. angl. 6^ millim. 



Jlab. Ecuador, Cachabe {Rosenberg, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to P. ventralis, Guer., and P. decorata, Stal. 



Spasto CERIA'JS. 



Genus Si'ARTOCERA. 



Spartocera pantomima. 



Hephiua patitomima, l)ist. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 293. 

 S/jartoceia ortonedai, Muntaud. Bull. Soc. Jiucarest, 18it7, n. 3, p. 0. 



