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tinctly recurved. Surface beneath immaculate, metallic bluish-violet, 
highly polished; punctures of the venter distant, almost obsolete, en¬ 
tirely wanting upon the disk. Pectus coarsely, closely punctured. 
Length 12 niillim. Humeral breadth 8 millim. 
Hah. Cape St. Lucas, Lower California (John Xanthus.) 
HOMOPTERA. 
CERCOPIDiE. 
MONECPHORA, Aniyot et Serv. 
M. fraterna, n. sp. 
Dark brown, finely, densely punctured. Head and face dull red, 
polished, frontal carina, labrum and rostrum bright red, the latter ti]v 
ped with blackish ) vertical carina arched, reaching the middle of the 
vertex, more or less brown, excavated, its surface irregular; stemmata 
red, eyes dull red. Thorax dark brown^ with a transverse reddish- 
yellow line upon the middle, lateral carinate margins red, the surface 
with an oblique, and several irregular smaller impressions each side 
anteriorly. Scutellum like the thorax in color, punctured a little more 
coarsely, shallowly impressed on the middle. Hemelytra rounded at 
tip, dark brown, with two reddish-yellow transverse lines composed of 
linear spots, the first band placed a little before the middle, the other 
a little behind the middle. Pectus red, polished, with brown areas. 
Abdomen brown, with the incisures and lateral margins red. Legs 
red, the femora a little tinged with brown ; apices of the tarsi brown. 
Length to tip of Hemelytra 11 millim. To tip of abdomen 7 mil- 
lims. Humeral breadth 4 millims. « 
Hah. Cuba. Prof. Poey. Cabinet of the Entomological Society. 
CLASTOPTERA, Gerniar. ^ 
i. C, undulata, n. sp. 
Form of C. profeus, Fitch, chocolate-brown, polished; head cream- 
yellowish, the face inferiorly white, front with a broad dark brown 
band below, above this are seven interrupted narrow bands; labrum 
and rostrum dark piceous, the tip of the latter whitish ; vertex with 
an irregular transverse brown band; jugum prominent, transversely 
inarked with brown and cream color, sulcated. Eyes cream color, the 
inferior half brown. Thorax transversely ribbed, the anterior and 
