CYPHONIA.—POPPEA. 97 
2. Cyphonia proxima. 
Bocydium (Combophora) proximum, Guér. Icon. Régne Anim., Ins. p. 365, t. 59. fig. 3°. 
Cyphonia proxima, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. sér. 2, iv. p. 5027; Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 212°. 
Hab. Mexico 1?*.—Amazons, Ega and Para ?. 
This species is not, apparently, represented in our collection. It is placed by 
Fairmaire under his Division I. of the genus, characterized by having the “ posterior 
spines slender and cylindrical.” 
POPPEA. 
Poppea, Stal, Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Ak. Férh. xxiv. p. 551 (1867). 
This genus contains about thirty species, chiefly from Brazil or Central America, and 
is probably widely distributed throughout the intervening region. It is allied to Ceresa 
in the form of the frontal pronotal horns, and in the venation of the tegmina and 
wings, but the back of the pronotum is rounded and strongly contracted in the middle 
on its upper surface, and from the middle or a little behind the middle starts a long 
trifurcate process, the central spine being, as a rule, much longer than the lateral ones * ; 
between the pronotal horns and the trifurcate process there are no raised curved spines 
as in Cyphonia. 
It is very difficult to describe the differences between the species, as they are in most 
cases more or less relative, but they will be easily seen by referring to the figures which 
have been, in most cases, given; they are evidently scarce insects, as the species are 
only represented from several localities by from one to four specimens. 
1. Poppea setosa, sp.n. (Tab. VII. figg. 3, 3 a-c.) 
Testacea, nigro testaceoque hirta; capite insequali, punctis duobus subter oculos nigris, pronoto a latere viso in 
medio transversim canaliculato et: utrinque valde rotundato-elevato, fortiter remote punctato; cornibus 
anticis brevibus, fere horizontalibus, ad basin inflatis, processu trispinoso postico spinaé media tereti 
curvata, lateribus duplo longiori, his brevibus, apice excepto, crassis et inflatis; corpore subtus testaceo, 
plus minusve infuscato; pedibus dilute testaceis, maculis quibusdam parvis nigricantibus. 
Of an ochraceo-testaceous colour, clothed with long sete, partly black and partly testaceous, which are thickest 
on the metopidium; the head is uneven, with large ocelli, and the pronotum also is very uneven, 
presenting the appearance, if viewed from the side, of two large rounded humps with a deep channel 
between; the anterior of these humps is excavate in front, and encloses a raised punctured prominence 
between the base of the horns, which are short, almost horizontal (being very slightly bent backwards), and 
inflated at the base; the trispinose posterior process has the intermediate spine long and slender (if viewed 
from the side rather strongly curved downwards, and then at the extreme apex almost imperceptibly 
curved upwards), twice as long as the lateral spines, which are short and very strongly dilated, except for 
a short pointed apex; the horns and spines are all lighter before their extreme tips, which are darker, 
* In the descriptions the trifurcate process is regarded as including the rather broad crescent-shaped piece 
from which the spines proceed ; this piece and the spines are, of course, an integral part of the pronotum. 
In all the species I have seen the tegmina have the veins in part dark and in part testaceous. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rhynch. Homop., Vol. II., dugust 1895. ¥1q 
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