MEMBRA CIDJE. 
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Size, 6x3 mm. 
Habitat. —Rio Dagua, Colombia. 
This insect does not appear to represent D. limacodes of Fairmaire, but bis 
description is very meagre. 
DARNIS LATERALIS, Fab. Sys. Rhyn. p. 272. 
(Plate XXII. fig. 8.) 
Fairm. l.c. p. 480; Germ. Burm. Amy. Serv. l.c. p. 545; Fowler, l.c. p. 52 ; Coquebert. Icon. Ins. 
p. 78, Plate 18, fig. 9 (1801). 
Small; pronotum dull pitchy brown, with an ochreous stripe on the margin, the 
upper border of which is indented and undulating; frons convex, unspotted and 
slightly pilose in front; legs with black tips to the tibim, and ferruginous tarsi ; 
tegmina with the bases brown and apices more hyaline; limbus broad, neuration 
dark brown. 
Fairmaire gives as a character : “ Capitis puncto medio.” 
Size, 8x4 mm. 
Habitat. —Brazil: Cayenne. 
B.M. Collection. 
DARNIS FLAYICEPS, Burm. 
(Plate XXIII. fig. 1 $, to fig. 3a. $ ) 
Burm. Rev. Silb. iv. p. 169; Fairm. l.c. p. 280; Fowl. l.c. p. 53; Da/mis latior, Tab. 1Y. fig. 16. 
Butler, Darnis limbata, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 341; Leptosticta Jlaviceps, Stal, Heuiip. Fabr. ii. p. 32. 
Colour chestnut brown, with a broad bright yellow band, more or less disruptive, 
extending from the head to the pronotal apex, and parallel to the lower margin ; 
tegmina rich sienna brown, but doubtful in constancy as to the strict neuration ; 
abdomen of the J dark brown, of the $ buff colour; femora testaceous, tibiae yellow or 
buff, ringed with brown; metopidium convex, with a yellow collar and small humeral 
angles. Fig. 3 on the above plate must be a variety or else a different species. The 
supra-humerals are not developed. 
Size, 9x4 to 13 x6 mm. 
Habitats. —Brazil, Para, Amazon, Cacliabi, Ecuador. 
In the British Museum Collection there are several dark and also lighter-coloured 
specimens named Leptosticta Jlaviceps , some of which may range under L. indcter- 
minata of Walker. They have two or three short obscure dashes between the 
shoulders, measure about 12 x 5 mm., and are labelled, Comtancia. January. 
