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Genus : TYLOPELTA, Fowler. 
B.C.A., p. 15. 
Small insects distinguished by the wavy and uneven outline of the pronota, which, 
instead of being nearly straight, are cut out in the middle and before the apex. 
Tegmina with three discoidal areas and five sub-oblong apical. 
This genus has a close alliance with Tropidocyta on the one hand, and Bolbonota on 
the other. 
TYLOPELTA GIBBERA, Stal. 
(Plate VII. fig. 7.) 
Tylopelta (jibbera, Fowler, Tab. II. figs. 1, la, p. 15. Tropidocyta gibbera, Stal 
Small; general colour pale mottled umber-brown ; dorsal ridge very sinuous and 
rugged; tegmina short and round at the apices, with two clear hyaline spots at the 
upper and the lower cuter margins. 
Size, 4x3 mm. 
Several habitats are given in the B.C.A : as Texas, Mexico, Vera Cruz, Guatemala, 
Panama. Imagoes occur in January. 
TYLOPELTA EXUSTA, n.s. 
(Plate VII. figs. 8 to 8d.) 
Small, irregularly globose ; dorsal ridge very sinuous, rough, and sulcated, hirsute ; 
pronotum warm brown, concolorous with the tegmina, which last seem to be almost 
conterminous with it; wings very small; body black, robust, and ringed ; middle 
tibiae broadly spatulate and pubescent; hind-tibiae slender and strongly serrated; 
frons with the ocelli on a line above the level of the eyes ; antennae obvious. 
Like T. (jibbera this insect appears to be a link between Tropidocyta and Bolbo¬ 
nota. It has much the appearance of a morsel of scorched bark. 
Hope Coll., Oxford. 
Size, 3x2 mm. 
Habitat. —Bio. 
Genus : PHILYA, Walker. 
List of Ilomopt. insects, Suppt. p. 120. 
The members of this genus are long and shuttle-shaped, with the head (procepha- 
lon) developed forwards into a porrect beak, the point of which is often ended by 
a kind of nail-head process. The eyes are prone to the ground, and cannot therefore 
see upwards. The pronotum carinated, either curved or nearly straight to the 
