MEMBRA CIDJE. 
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The pronotum is marked by a yellow band. The humeral angle is not, or 
is only slightly and bluntly produced ; dorsum convex and not carinated ; apex 
rather curved over the tegmina. 
Fowler subdivides the old genus Darnis into Darnis, Hebetecoides, Stictopelta, 
and Tropidarnis. 
DARNIS PARTITA, Walk. 
(Plate XXII. figs. 4, 4a; Plate XXII. figs. 5, 5a, var.) 
Walk. Insect. Saundersiana, p. 15; Fowler, l.c. Tab. IV. figs. 15, 15b. 
Pronotum shining black or deep brown,, with three yellow curved transverse 
bands across the dorsum, united to a yellow band on the marginal border ; frons 
with a yellow spot; tegmina as long as the pronotum, rich brown ; legs ochreous, 
with black femoral tips. 
The insect figured is from an example taken by Bates on the Amazons. 
Fowler remarks its similarity to Ochrolomia tricincta of Stab which, however, 
wants the anterior band. 
Size, 8x4 mm. 
Habitat. —Panama, Bugaba, Chiriqui, the Amazons. 
DARNIS SUTURAL1S, Germ. 
(Plate XXII. figs. 6, 6a, 6b.) 
Darnis trifasciata , Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. 481. 
Very shining dark brown or pitchy black, with a broad central bright ochreous 
band down the centre of the dorsum, with another also on each lower margin of the 
pronotum ; another short interrupted stripe over each shoulder rising from the blunt 
inconspicuous suprahumerals ; frons with a largish orange spot in its centre and 
another spot on each inner margin of the eyes ; the metopidium has also two spots, 
thus showing in front five spots in all; seen unexpanded from the back, neither eyes, 
legs nor tegmina are visible ; legs ochreous, with black knees; tarsi ferruginous. 
Size, 9x5 mm. 
Habitat. —Brazil. 
From B.M. Collection. 
DARNIS LTMAX, n.s. 
(Plate XXII. figs. 7, 7a, 7b.) 
Long, pointed, sluglike in its form and in its apparent sliminess; pronotum 
polished, and mottled with brown and ochreous stains ; lower margin straight, and 
extending to the points of the tegmina; eyes large and yellow ; tegmina rich sienna 
brown, with strong brown venation ; metopidium without suprahumeral projections. 
