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TROPIDOCYTA SUCCEDANII, n.s. 
(Plate VII. figs. 2 to 2c.) 
Pronotum rounded in front; sub-perpendicular to the frons ; dorsal lidge straight- 
and horizontal to the apex ; obscure amber-colour, punctured ; pronotum with one 
central keel or carina and a shorter one on each side ; metopidium with two small 
depressions above each eye ; hind-tibiae serrated ; tegmina obscurely grey ; the apex 
of pronotum reaches much short of the tegmina. 
Size, 6x3 mm. 
Miers Coll. ; Hope Museum. 
Habitat. —S. America. 
TROPIDOCYTA MINOR, n.s. 
(Plate VII. figs. 3, 3a.) 
Small; metopidium, rising at first perpendicularly to the back, and then 
sloping without protuberances to the posterior apex ; pronotum as long as the 
abdomen ; colour sordid-ochreous, with a brown patch at the dorsum, followed by a 
smaller patch and a still smaller one before the black point; tegmina quite hyaline, 
with strong yellow neuration, and a broad limbus at the edges of the four apical 
areas ; legs yellowish ; the second femora spatulate. 
Size, 4x3 mm. 
Habitat. —S. America (Miers Coll.). 
TROPIDOCYTA GUYANENSIS, n.s. 
(Plate VII. figs. 4 to 4c.) 
Allied to T. minor, but has the tegmina dense instead of sub-hyaline and with a 
ferruginous apical part, and limbus ; the basal part black ; the pronotum has only a 
single broad ochreous fascia, and the frons between the eyes is undulate or wavy 
instead of plane. The neuration is much less distinct than in T. minor. 
The three specimens in the Hope Collection rather vary in colour. 
Size, 6x4 mm. 
Habitat .—Guana and Amazons (Bates). 
TROPIDOCYTA PUNCTIPES, n.s. 
(Plate VII. figs. 5, 5b.) 
Bather large; fore part of the pronotum roundly acute; dorsum straight; 
general colour bright yellow, tinged with red and greenish-grey; abdomen and 
lower parts fuscous ; tegmina sub-acute at the apices, with broad borders ; hind 
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