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MEMBRA CID AE. 
Mr. Mickeljolin informs me that in Brazil he often met with B. rjlobulare in the 
country round Rio Janeiro. They inhabited the low bushes, and flitted from one 
shrub to another without difficulty or apparent laboured flight. An acrobat would 
be seriously overbalanced by similar five large balls attached to his head. 
BOOYDIUM TINTINNABULIFERUM, Less. 
(Plate XLY. fig. G, $, Ga.) 
Less. pi. 55, 1833. Fairm. l.c.p. 508. 
Head and pronotum brown, not black; abdomen orange red; tubercles very 
hirsute, pale brown, the outer ones spinose; atitennte unusually conspicuous in the 
male insect, which also has a white band between the insertions of the tegmina. 
The tegmina are clear hyaline, with a strong brown neuration and a fuscous spot. 
Fairmaire thinks possibly this insect is a variety of B. globuliferum. 
Size, G x 4 mm. 
Habitat .—Rio Janeiro. 
From the Hope and the B.M. Collections. 
BOOYDIUM RUFIGLOBUM. 
(Plate XLY. fig. 7.) 
Fairm. l.c. p. 508. Walk. l.c. p. 158. 
Wholly rufous red except the tegmina, which are yellowish at the apex, with an 
obscure brown transverse fascia. The procephalic tubercles are densely hirsute with 
ferruginous felt-like pile; eyes prominent; legs and abdomen yellowish. 
Although the above description only partially agrees with Fairmaire’s diagnosis 
—for in my figure there are not four white bands on the pronotum, as he notices— 
T believe these insects are identical in species with his. 
Size, 6x4 mm. 
From the B.M. Collection. 
BOOYDIUM GLOBULIFERUM, Germ. 
(Plate XLV. fig. 8«.) 
Fairm. l.c. p. 508. 
Black, with four white anterior streaks and a white scutellum ; breast, abdomen, 
and legs yellow ; tegmina with brown fascia. 
