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2. Getulia fulva. 
Getulia fulva, Melichar, Ann. k.-k. naturhist. Hofmuseums, xiii. p. 328, t. 14. figg. 10a, 6°. 
Hab. Guatemara (Mus. Stuttgart '). 
The following is Dr. Melichar’s description of this insect :— 
‘In form and size very like G. plenipennis; the strongly projecting vertex, however, is plainly narrowed 
behind, the body is bright yellow, almost bright orange-yellow, in colour, the margins of the vertex black, 
the carine on the pronotum and scutellum bright red. Ocelli red; the third antennal joint and the 
antennal sete black; tegmina diaphanous, shining, veins bright yellow, stigma pale yellow; on the back 
of the abdomen is a row of reddish spots; wings diaphanous ; legs pale yellow, claws dark. 9. Length 
of the body without the tegmina 12 mm.” . 
I feel certain that G. fulva is merely a variety of G. plenipennis; apart from the 
shape of the vertex, which is very variable in the latter species, the characters appear 
to rest entirely on colour-differences, which are very unreliable in these diaphanous 
insects. As, however, I have not seen the specimen on which the species has been 
described, I prefer to let it stand provisionally. 
BLADINA. 
Bladina, Stal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. ii. p. 324 (1859); Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-Trakt. Hem.-Fauna, 
ii. p. 70. 
This genus is distinguished by having the forehead only a little longer than broad, 
with a strong central carina; the head broad, with the vertex very short; and, especially, 
by the long, narrow, almost parallel-sided tegmina, which have the veins towards the 
apex very thickly set and parallel. ‘The species that I have seen are very closely allied 
and appear to differ in hardly any other point, except to a certain extent in size. 
It is probable that Peciloptera ricanioides, Spinola (Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 442, 
t. 6. fig. 6), from Northern Mexico or California, belongs to this genus; this insect 
was described from a single female specimen, and that, to judge from the description, 
an abnormal one. 
1. Bladina magnifrons. (Tab. VIII. figg. 14, 14 a.) 
Bladina magnifrons, Walk. Insecta Saunders., Homopt. p. 56°. 
_ Bladina fuscana, Stal, Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-Trakt. Hem.-Fauna, ii. p. 13’. 
? Flatoides rudis, Walk. List of Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 421°. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Coatepeque and Torola 
(Champion).—VENEZUELA® ; Amazons, Para’; Brazit, Rio Janeiro *. oo 
There is a large series of this species in our collection. Our specimens are somewhat 
smaller than B. fuscana, Stal, an example of which has been kindly sent to me for 
comparison by Dr. Sjésted], of the Stockholm Museum, and they are also smaller 
than those I have seen from the Amazons. JB. magnifrons bears a close superficial 
resemblance to certain species of Zssus. The specimen figured is from Teapa. 
