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twisted at base, convex on both margins on basal two-thirds, then taper- 
ing with straight sides to a point, a small thin tapering lobe attached 
to inner face of each near base. 
Kgeg ovoid, obliquely compressed on one side, with a narrow oper- 
cular surface not quite two-thirds length of egg; a series of about six 
shallow longitudinal grooves spaced across two-thirds of circum- 
ference. Length, 1.3 mm.; breadth, 0.6 mm. 
The Trinidad form has the tegmen rather heavily speckled in two 
bands, one with about 44 spots in anterior half of tezgmen between costa 
and media, the other with about 21 spots on each side of Cu, and be- 
tween suture and anterior claval vein (var. phalaenoides). Numerous 
specimens are at hand collected during 1942 at St. Augustine, Trini- 
dad, B. W. L., by the writer. 
12b. Tegmina truncate apically or narrowed in distal half. 
13a. Tegmina not narrowed distally, apical margin truncate or very shallowly 
rounded. 
14a. Tegmina much expanded distally, sutural angle produced, more or less acute. 
Tribe FLATISSINI 
Genus CARTHAEOMORPHA Melichar 
Carthacomorpha MrticHar, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien, vol. 16, p. 198, 1901. (Geno- 
type, Carthaecomorpha rufipes Melichar, designated by Oshanin, Katalog der 
paliiarktischen Hemipteren, p. 125, 1912.) 
Vertex short, about four times as broad as long in middle, lateral 
margins diverging anteriorly, anterior margin carinate, somewhat pro- 
duced, posterior margin broadly excavate; frons as broad as long or 
longer, flattened, lateral margins slightly arcuate, incurved below level 
of antennae, median carina present basally, obsolete distally, lateral 
carinae present at base. Pronotum short, about twice as long as vertex, 
anterior margin convexly produced, posterior margin broadly ex- 
cavated ; mesonotum with disk almost flat. Posttibiae with two spines 
in distal half. Tegmina large, subtriangular, costal margin not am- 
plately rounded, apex truncate, sutural angle acutely pointed, costal 
margin narrower than costal cell, Sc simple to apex, R forking about 
middle, M and Cu, HORI in bese third, M fork shghtly basad of 
Cu, fork. 
CARTHAEOMORPHA BREVICEPS Melichar 
Puate 15, Ficures 441-446 
Carthaeomorpha breviceps MELICHAR, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien, vol. 17, p. 34, 1902. 
Female: Length, 10 mm.; tegmen, 12 mm. 
Yellowish green; costal margin of tegmina narrowly pale, apical 
margin narrowly bordered red, apical cells distally very pale fuscous, 
transverse veins of whole tegmen orange, the membranous areas bhe- 
