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MEM Bit A CIDJE. 
and with a red streak following the margin thereof. Abdomen broad, concave below, 
deeply ringed above with pale grey edges. Tegmina with three brown spots on the 
membrane. The smooth pronotum without keels distinguishes this insect from 
II. disparities. 
HOPLOPHORA PUBESCENT, n.s. 
(Plate XIX. figs. 5, 5a.) 
Large ; general colour dark ferruginous ; deeply punctate. Pronotum with a red 
carinal border running from between the obtuse supra-humeral processes to the 
posterior point. Whole pronotum deeply pitted with brown. Tegmina hyaline 
with reddish-yellow neuration. In some specimens like that figured there is con¬ 
siderable difference in the development of the right and left alary organs. Tarsi 
longest in the first pair of legs, decreasing in length from the second to the 
third pair, which last are very small. Whole insect finely pilose, and particularly 
so on the underside. There are numerous examples in the Hope Collection, all 
of which are concolorous. 
Size, f 3 x G mm. 
Habitat. —Bogota. 
Hope Collection. 
HOPLOPHORA PERTUSA, Germ. Ann. Serv r . 
(Plate XX. figs. 1 , la, lb.) 
Fairm. l.c. p. 271. 
Pronotum yellow, much punctured; on the anterior part two dark brown points. 
Dorsum gibbous; side borders red; dorsal edge but little developed; tegmina 
hyaline with reddish nervures; supra-humerals mere rounded eminences ; abdominal 
rings uncovered, but the scutellum is concealed ; legs short with relatively large tarsi ; 
femora thick and marked by dusky bands, more or less hirsute. 
Size, 12x5 mm. 
Habitat. — Brazil. 
HOPLOPHORA POROSA. 
(Plate XX. figs. 2, 2a.) 
Walk. II. porosa. l.c. p. 513 ; H. pertusa var. (?). 
I have not been abie to compare Fairmaire’s type specimens with others in the 
British Museum, but I am much of the opinion that Walker’s II. porosa is only a 
variety of II. -pertusa . 
