rsyllicla3/rom the New World, 



703 



Faracomeca fnscata^ sp. n. (Fig. 6.) 



Head dark brown, with a little paler brown on median 

 line posteriorly, with eyes, about as wide as thorax, slightly 

 dtflexed, small ; vertex quadrate, scarcely arcuate on poste- 

 rior margin, a deep fovea near centre of each half; lateral 

 ocelli scarcely elevated ; genal cones slightly descending, 

 short, not much more than half length of vertex, subconical, 

 with numerous long whitish hairs. (Antennte broken off on 

 both specimens.) Pronotum rather broad, with a slight 

 median frontal e[)iphysis ; dorsulum long, narrow, a median 

 pale brown longitudinal stripe continued from pronotum, 

 remainder dark brown, faintly striated, a short, low, sharp, 



Fiff. 6. 



Paracomeca fuscata, sp. n. 

 A, bead ; B, legmen. 



transverse ridge in the middle of lateral margin ; mesonotuni 

 with G-7 longitudinal pale brown stria?, remainder dark 

 brown, very broad compared with length, rather deeply 

 arcuate in front; scutelluin trapezoidal, dark brown, witli 

 fiavous margins. Wing-insertions pale brown to whitish. 

 Teginen with neuration as given for genus, with much black 

 on base and centre and along the veins. Legs dark brown, 

 with tarsi pale. Abdomen black-brown, rather shiny. 



Length 2'4 mm. ; len.^th of tegmen 3*4 mm. 



PakaguAY : ISau JJcrnardino, on leaves on Cdtis sp. [[{. 

 Fiebi'uj). 



