Mr. W. L. Distant on Coreide. 419 
Leptoscelis egregia. 
Hypselonotus luteiceps, Walk. Cat. Het. iv. p. 189, n, 12 (1871). 
Genus MALVANA. 
Malvana minax. 
Hypselonotus minax, Walk. Cat. Het. iv. p. 139. n. 11 (1871). 
Genus PHTHIA. 
Phthia smaragdina. 
Sphictyrtus smaragdinus, Walk. Cat. Het. iv. p. 187. n. 7 (1871). 
The unique type of Walker is a specimen without legs 
and with a much damaged abdomen. Nevertheless it is 
doubtless a species of Phthia and allied to P. cantharidina, 
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 
coxe, and first, second, and third abdominal segments, poste- 
rior margins of fourth and fifth segments, coxe, trochanters, 
femora, and extreme bases of tibiae, 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. ang]. 64 millim. 
flab. Ecuador, Cachabé (Rosenberg, Brit. Mus.). 
Allied to P. ventralis, Guér., and P. decorata, Stal. 
SPARTOCERINA. 
Genus SPARTOCERA. 
Spartocera pantomima. 
Sephina pantomima, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 293, 
Spartocera ortonedat, Montand. Bull. Soc, Bucarest, 1897, n, 3, p. 6, 
