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male/’ The abdominal ultimate point is cleft, but I could see no indications of the 
valvular plates usual in the females on other specimens. The fine part of the pronotum 
has two moderate suprahumerals ; the ultimate point has one strong thorny spine on 
what may be called, though inaccurately, the ventral aspect ; a pale and uneven line 
on each side of the fore end is obscurely united below. The posterior apex is deeply 
sculptured, and also has two smaller divergent spines, making the spines five in 
number. 
Size, 9x3 mm. 
Habitat. —Chiriqui, 6000 feet. 
Champion. 
The following list enumerates insects not here figured, but described by others. 
* Reteronotus quadrinodosus, Fairm. l.c. p. 499, PI. VII. fig. 27. But). Cist. Ent. II. p. 35G. Stal, 
Fowl. l.c. p. S3. Mexico. 
*H. trinodosus, Butl. l.c. p. 357, PI. VII. fig. 8. Fowl. l.c. p. 84, Tab. VI. figs. 10, 16a $, 17 $ . 
Panama. 
II. Lethierryi, Coding, l.c. p. 453 (note). 
U. trinodosus, Leth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 154 (1890). 
* R. bicornis, Less. (Ranatra), Ill. Zool. PI. LVII, fig. 1. 
*H. abbreviatus, Fairm. l.c. p, 500, PI. VII. fig. 20. Brazil. 
*R. nodosus, Germ. l.c. PI. I. fig. 2. Burm. l.c. 229 (1833). Fairm. l.c. p. 501. Brazil. 
*H. furcatus, Gray, Griffith, An. King. p. 101, PI. CVIII. fig. 3. 
II, Jlavolineatus, Lap. Fairm. l.c. p. 499. 
//. inermis, Lap. l.c. p. 97, PI. III. fig. 10. 
Combopliora reticulata, Burm. l.c. (1833). Brazil. 
*11. delineatus, Walk. l.c. Suppt. p. 154. Ega. 
N.B.—The species marked by an asterisk are represented in the British Museum 
Collection. 
Genus : COMBOPHORA, Germ. 
Silb. Rev. Ent. III. p. 282 (1835). Amyot et Serv. Reteronotus, Burm. Fairm. l.c. p. 504. 
Walk. l.c. p. 598. 
Head triangular; pronotum posteriorly inflated into a spined bladder, mottled 
with various colours; pronotum sometimes compressed between the shoulders; 
tegmina free, with four apical cells, the last of which is sometimes subdivided. 
Hind tarsi longer than the others. 
The inflated pronotum is easily detached from the rest of the insect, which 
often simulates a bloated spider, or a Coccinella. 
