AKT. 25 MEGAEIDIISl"AE Al^D CANOPIlSrAE McATEE ABB MALLOCH 9 



Holotype. — Sex undeterminable from the damaged specimen, Trini- 

 dad, Brancsik (Budapest Mus.). 



MEGARIS HEMISPHAERICA, new species 



Castaneous to black, legs castaneous, antennae testaceous, corium. 

 brownish basally, reddish apicaily. Front margin of vertex dis- 

 tinctly emarginate medially, moderately convex laterally. Head 

 practically impunctate ; pronotum with only faint traces of punctures 

 anywhere except near antero-lateral margins, where there is a group 

 of strong punctures, and a line along posterior margin, conspicuous 

 laterally, evanescent medianly ; scutellum with a broad band of punc- 

 tures near periphery, most conspicuous anteriorly, and reaching 

 highest on sides, disk practically impunctate. Lateral aspect as in 

 Figure 17. Segments of antenna increasing slightly in length suc- 

 cessively, from the basal one, apical one decidedly fusiform; all 

 with moderately long hairs. Propleurum with a row of coarse punc- 

 tures across middle and scattered punctures about its inner end, 

 otherwise impunctate; meso- and meta-pleura copiously punctate. 

 Length 1.9 mm.; width 1.7 mm. 



Holotype. — Botanical Garden, Georgetown, British Guiana, Octo- 

 ber 3, 1918, Harold Morrison (U.S.N.M.), paratypes, Caracas; 

 Laguaizo, Venezuela, E. Simon, 1897 (Paris Mus.) ; Iguarassu, 

 Brazil, 1888, G. Eamage (British Mus.). 



Eolotype.— Cut No. 40536 U.S.N.M. 



MEGARIS PERUVIANA Horrath 



Cyrtaspis peruviana Hokvath, G., Analecta ad cognitionem Cj'dnidarum, 

 p. 209 [Peru]. 



Pale castaneous. Front margin of vertex truncate medially^ 

 straight laterally, angulate-emarginate just inside each eye ; pronotum 

 with a group of punctures on each lateral area and a single row along 

 posterior margin, impunctate elsewhere; scutellum moderately punc- 

 tate throughout except on anterior disk; propleurum sparsely punc- 

 tate anteriorly, remainder of surface, and that of meso- and meta- 

 pleura thickly punctate; sternites each with a row of punctures 

 along anterior margin. Length 1.75 mm. 



Holotype. — Male, Vilcanota, Peru (Budapest Mus.) ; other speci- 

 mens, San Esteban, March, 1888, E. Simon (Helsingfors Mus.). 



MEGARIS STALII, new species 



Cyrtaspis nigrUula Stal, C, (part) Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-traktens Hemip- 

 ter-Fauna, vol. 1, 1860, p. 9 [Brazil]. 



Dull black, antennae and tarsi testaceous. Front margin of vertex 

 convex medially, and slightly concave laterally, disk shallowly punc- 

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