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Oncometopia tomentosa, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum brownish ochraceous, 

 the vertex, anterior area of pronotum, and scutelhim more 

 or less pale violaceously tomentose ; abdomen above bluish 

 black, the segmental margins brownish, the lateral and apical 

 margins greyishly tomentose ; body beneath and legs 

 brownish ochraceous and more or less thickly greyishly 

 tomentose; tegmina very pale testaceous, somewhat thickly 

 sprinkled with small greyish dots, more prominently so ou 

 costal and claval areas, the apical ceils ochraceous and 

 practically unspotted ; wings fuliginous, the veins black ; 

 vertex shorter than breadth between eyes, truncately rounded 

 in front, medially a little depressed ; face centrally broadly 

 flattened where it is finely granulose and with a faint central 

 longitudinal line, lateral areas strongly transversely striate, 

 the sides of the face and cheeks thickly greyishly tomentose ; 

 pronotum coarsely punctate and wrinkled ; anterior tibije 

 sulcate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 11 mm. ; exp. tegm. 20 mm. 



Hab. Ecuador; Chimbo {Rosenberg, Brit. Mus.). 



Oncometopia fowleri, sp. n. 



Tettigonia speculifera, Sign, (nee Walk.) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) ii. 



p. 483, t. xvii/fig. 1 (1854). 

 Onco)7ieto2na speculifera, Fowl. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rh}nicb. Horn. ii. 



p. 233, t. xiv. fig." 25 (1899). 



Hab. Mexico. 



Walker's unlocalized species is a much larger insect, 

 differently spotted on the vertex and pronotum ; face longer 

 and more deflected before clypeus than in 0. fowleri, its 

 basal half black, apical half castaneous, and the lateral 

 carinate areas ochraceous. 



Oncometopia peruviensis, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum ochi'aceous; vertex with 

 two central spots in longitudinal sequence, which are de- 

 lineated by black margins, the apical one rounded, the basal 

 spot augulate, oblique black stripe on lateral apical areas ; 

 pronotum Avith reticulate castaneous lines delineating spots, 

 of which one on each lateral area and one central are 

 rounded, and between these on each side is a long sub- 

 quadrate spot almost divided by a transverse castaneous 

 line ; scutellum with castaneous lines and shadings on basal 

 half delineating a small spot at each basal angle, a transverse 



