48 . ; HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
anterior. pairs being of considerable length), and by the strongly carinate sides of 
pronotum, and also by the sides of the pronotal horn being furnished with three or 
more caring, more or less perfect; in Aconophora the posterior tarsi, although not 
always as long as the intermediate and anterior pairs, are never minute, the pronotum 
is never carinate, except for the dorsal keel, and the sides of the pronotal horn have one 
more or less broad elevated line running from the base to the apex. In the venation 
of the tegmina the genus appears to be closely related to Aconophora. 
Aconophoroides in general appearance appears to be most closely connected with 
Enchotype, St&l, as represented by Enchotype (Potnia) fairmairei, Guér., but it is 
distinguished from that genus by the wings having four apical cells instead of three, 
and by the plainly carinate sides and horn of the pronotum; in Potnia the formation 
of the pronotal horn is quite different. . 
1. Aconophoroides gladiator. (Tab. IV. figg. 11, 11 a.) 
Thelia gladiator, Walk. List of Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 567°. 
Aconophora lata, Walk. Ins. Saunders., Homopt. p. 69°; Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 352°. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).— Amazons, Para 1°. 
One female specimen from Chiriqui. I can see no reason for following Mr. Butler 
in altering Walker’s original name and substituting his later name for a synonymous 
species, because Stal has named a species of Aconophora A. gladiata, especially as 
A. gladiata appears to belong to the A. pallescens group of the genus; at all events. 
no alteration need now be made, as the insect is removed to a different genus. 
altogether. 
Subfam. DARNINA. 
The genera comprised in this subfamily are somewhat heterogeneous, and several of 
them differ very much in general facies; in distinguishing them some writers have 
made use of one or two characters which are often misleading, especially that of the 
relative distance of the ocelli from the eye and from one another: in certain groups, 
e. g. of the Centrotine, it is a very valuable character, for in the Centrotine various. 
genera have the ocelli situated almost on the margins of the eye, but in the Darmine 
the relative difference of distance is very seldom great enough to be noticeable. The 
general character of the venation is most important, but Stél appears to be not quite 
right in all cases as to the relative number of the discoidal areas; I have therefore in 
the following table made as little use as possible of the latter character, and have 
entirely omitted the characters drawn from the ocelli; in nearly all the genera the 
areas of the tegmina are more or less elongate, oblong, and parallel-sided, and in. no 
case are any of the apical areas petiolate. 
