66 HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
Much larger than the preceding species, of a dark fuscous-brown colour; head scarcely produced, much shorter 
than the pronotum; pronotum produced and rounded in front, carinate, with an impression in front on 
each side; tegmina ample, with the costal margin dilated towards the base, and set very regularly with 
strong transverse veins, the apical portion with the parallel veins set very close together (and not divided 
from the basal portion by a strong raised ridge as in the preceding species), of a dark fuscous-brown colour, 
with a conspicuous irregular hyaline patch on the disc just beyond the middle, and another smaller 
one on the margin before the apex, the apex itself having two hyaline narrow patches on its extreme 
margin; body and legs fuscous or fuseo-testaceous. 
Long. 14-15 millim.; lat. ad hum. 5 millim, 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
NOGODINA. 
Nogodina, Stal, Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-Trakt. Hem.-Fauna, i. p. 70 (1858); Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 
1859, p. 326. 
This genus appears to have been formed by Stal to include the well-known Plata 
reticulata, Fabr.; it may be distinguished by the fact that four veins proceed from the 
basal areola, and by the forehead being comparatively short, broad, and unicarinate. 
1. Nogodina reticulata. 
Flata reticulata, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 47 (1808) *. 
La cigale a Ailes de Gaze, Stoll, Cig. p. 29, t. 4. fig. 19°. 
Ricania reticulata, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 1, p. 161°; Spinola, Amn. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 403 ‘; 
Am. et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hém. p. 529°; Melichar, Ann. k.-k. naturhist. Hofmuseums, xiii. 
p. 806°. 
Ricania klugit, Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 408’. 
Hab. CentraL America®; Honpuras®.—Sovura Americal, Colombia °%, Cayenne ? ®, 
Parad, Brazil4+®7, Peru®, Nauta, Tabatinga. 
I am very doubtful whether this species really occurs in Central America. It is not 
represented in our collection, and Mr. Kirby (who has kindly compared the species for 
me) tells me that Walker’s &. reticulata, labelled as from Honduras, is really Sassula 
pictifrons. ‘The above references to Central America and Honduras are given solely 
on the authority of Dr. Melichar®, who may have been under some misapprehension 
in the matter. 
SASSULA. 
Sassula, Stal, Of. Vet.-Ak. Forh, xxvii. p. 769 (1870). 
Sassula was introduced by Stal as a subgenus of Miriza, and as including M. osmy- 
loides, Walk., and M. sorurcula, Stal. Miriza appears to be regarded by Dr. Melichar 
as synonymous with Nogodina, Stél, and he gives as the reference for the genus 
“‘ Nogodina, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. iii. p. 8326 (1859); Miriza, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. 
xxvii. p. 769 (1870).” The genus Sassula differs from Nogodina by the fact that 
three veins only proceed from the basal areola of the tegmina (instead of four, as in 
the first-named genus), and the claval veins are united into one at or a little beyond 
