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character. The present genus is somewhat a case in point; it was founded in 1861, 
and here the type was given; but in 1862 Stal proposed the genus Cyrpoptus, in which 
he sank his previously-described genus Amycle as a section—a course of nomenclature 
which ought not to be followed. I can find no trace of Cyrpoptus in the same author’s 
“Conspectus Generum” of the Fulgoride, published in 1866 in his ‘ Hemiptera 
Africana,’ where Amycle only is noticed; but in 1870, in his ‘ Die amerikanischen 
Fulgoriden-Gattungen,’ he diagnoses both Amycle and Cyrpoptus as distinct genera, an 
alternate view which I gladly follow, as the structural characters seem not only distinct 
but divergent. | 
1. Amycle amabilis. 
Fulgora (Episcius ?) amabilis, Westw. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 119; Arc. Ent. 1. p. 89, 
t. 71. f.1%. — . 
Episcius (?) amabilis, Walk. Cat. Homopt. ii. p. 283. 2. 
Amycle amabilis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 148. 1. 
Cyrpoptus (Amyele) amabilis, Stal, Berl, ent. Zeitschr. vi. p. 305. 2. 
Cyrpoptus amabilis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 50. 3497. . 
Hab. Mextco 12. 
- We have not received a single example of this species in any of our Central-American 
collections, and I only know it from Prof. Westwood’s figure. 
2. Amycle sodalis. 
Amycle sodalis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 148. 2'. 
Cyrpoptus (Amyele) sodalis, Stal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. vi. p. 805. 3. 
Cyrpoptus sodalis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 50. 350°. 
Hab. Mexico 12. 
This species is only known to me from the original description. 
ENCHOPHORA. 
‘Enchophora, Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. sér. 1, viii. pp. 202, 221 (1839) ; Amyot & Serville, Hist. 
des Hém. p. 496 (1843) ; Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 133 (1866) ; Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxi. p. 284 (1870). 
Fulgora, subg. Enchophora, Burmeister, Gen. Ins. t. 19. 
The salient features of this genus have been well epitomized by Stal, as follows :— 
“Processu capitis maxime recurvo, apice trilobo; thorace carina valde elevata, basi 
oblique truncata, instructo; tegminibus densissime reticulatis; antennarum articulo 
secundo valde transverso.” | 
Comparatively little is known of this genus, which is evidently focussed in the heart 
of the Neotropical region. The number of species (certainly not exhaustive) here 
enumerated as found in Central America indicate that the great Brazilian subregion 
itself must contain very. many undiscovered species, and therefore little at the present 
