Mr. W. L. Distant on Coreidas. // 
Genus LAMINICEPS. 
Laminiceps megera. 
Paryphes megera, Burm. Handb. ii. p. 336. n. 3 eer 
Laminiceps megera, Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 156. n. 1 (1870), cum synon. 
This species has been omitted in the Catalogue of Lethierry 
and Severin (cf. t. ii. p. 34, Laminiceps). 
Laminiceps festivus, sp. n. 
Head bluish green, eyes ochraceous, antenne fuscous ; pro- 
notum ochraceous, with two large discal, subquadrate, indigo- 
blue spots, which do not reach the posterior or lateral margins 
and are more remote from the anterior margin; scutellum 
indigo-blue, with a central longitudinal ochraceous fascia, 
which is broadest at base and apex ; corium dark bluish black, 
crossed at base of membrane by a transverse ochraceous 
fascia; membrane black. Head and body beneath ochra- 
ceous ; rostrum, a spot beneath bases of antenne, a spot near 
intermediate and posterior coxe, and the legs bluish green ; 
bases of anterior and intermediate femora, base and under 
surface of posterior femora ochraceous, the last with the 
femoral spines blackish. 
The pronotum has the dark spots 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. 
3. Posterior femora incrassate, curved, and with a series 
of spines beneath which gradually increase in size from near 
base to apex. 
Long., 3, 18 millim. 
Hab, Amazons (Brit. Mus.). 
Allied to L. fasciatus, Dall., and L. cardinalis, Stal; from 
the first it is at once separated by the different markings and 
colour of the femora, from the second by the markings of the 
pronotum and scutellum, different colour of the legs, &e. 
Laminiceps sumptuosus, 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 beneath and legs 
