60 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



Diedrocephala zea, sp. ii. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum black ; basal two-thirds 

 of pronotum pale stramineous ; head beneath, sternum, and 

 legs pale stramineous ; face (excluding a spot before clypeus) 

 black ; anterior and intermediate tibise and the apices of the 

 tarsi black ; abdomen mutilated in tyi^ical specimen ; teg- 

 mina black, with two broad^ transverse, very pale stramineous 

 fascise, one before and the other beyond middle ; vertex a 

 little longer than breadth between eyes, the disk concave, 

 centrally longitudinally linearlj^ sulcate, subangularly rounded 

 anteriorly ; face centrally broadly flattened, the lateral areas 

 transversely striate ; pronotum very finely transversely 

 wrinkled. 



Long., incl. tegm., 14 mm. 



Hub. Ecuador; Cachabe [Rosenberg, 'Qrit. Mus.). 



In structure allied to D. prastantior, Fowl. 



Diedrocephala mitra, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum stramineous ; lateral 

 margins of vertex, ocelli, anterior, posterior, and lateral 

 margins of pronotum, and apex of scutellum castaneous or 

 piceous brown ; head beneath, sternum, and legs ochraceous; 

 abdomen beneath reddish ochraceous ; base and lateral 

 margins of face black; apices of first and second joints of 

 posterior tarsi reddish ; tegmina castaneous, with three large 

 stramineous spots, the first elongate in basal area of clavus, 

 sometimes apically enlarged inwardly, the second subsemi- 

 circular near apex of clavus, extending from claval suture to 

 about middle of tegm en, the third smaller, paler, and more 

 or less angulate in apical area ; vertex long and angularly 

 produced, its margins oblique, its apex truncately rounded, 

 much longer than breadth between eyes, finely, centrally, 

 longitudinally, linearly sulcate ; the lateral margins reflexed, 

 the apex subspatulate ; face broadly centrally flattened, the 

 lateral areas transversely striate ; pronotum finely trans- 

 versely wrinkled ; scutellum finely transversely impressed 

 before apical area. 



Long., incl. tegm., 12 mm. 



Hub. Ecuador; Cachabe {Rosenberg, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Dr^culacephala. 



Drcecnlacepluda, Ball, Proc. Iowa Acad, Sci. viii. p. 66 (1901). 



Type, D. mollipes, Say. 



