98 HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
and sometimes quite pitchy; the abdomen usually has the base of the segments pitchy ; the legs are light 
testaceous, with three or four small black spots or rings on the femora and tibie, the apex of the latter 
being usually black. 
Long. 6-7 millim.; lat. int. corn. 3 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
Several specimens. ‘This insect appears to be assigned by some writers to Germar’s 
Heteronota hirta (Germ. Rev. Ent. Silb. iii. p. 255), from Brazil; but it is plain from 
Germar’s description, which is a very full one and very different from the extremely 
meagre description of many of the authors who wrote about the same time, that it 
cannot be his insect, which appears to belong to Cyphonia proper: for, after speaking 
of the “‘cornua antica,” he says “Spine intermedie, breviuscule, erecte,” whereas in 
the present insect there are no such erect spines ; that he does not refer to the posterior 
spines is evident, for he describes these in detail just afterwards; there are also other 
differences. The insects in the British Museum under Cyphonia hirta belong to 
P. setosa. 
Among some undescribed Mexican Membracide sent to me by Dr. Aurivillius, from 
the Stockholm Museum, is a smaller and more rugose form, which may perhaps belong 
to a new species; but it is imperfect, having the intermediate spine of the posterior 
process broken. 
Since writing the above I have examined a specimen of C. hirta in the Belgian 
Museum collection ; it is a true Cyphonia with upright intermediate spines, and quite 
distinct from the insect above described. Heteronota braccata, Germ., is also a true 
Cyphonia, and not a Poppea. 
2. Poppea torva, sp.n. (Tab. VII. figg. 4, 4a, 5.) 
Preecedenti quoad formam pronoti maxime affinis, sed statura multo majori, metopidio ante cornua longiori, 
magis rotundato, et colore obscuriori facile distinguenda. 
Allied to the preceding in the form of the pronotum, except that the metopidium is more produced and rounded, 
but much larger and more darkly coloured; the horns, too, are shorter in proportion; the pronotum is 
brown, with the sides lighter, and with small obscure testaceous spots scattered over the general dark 
colour; the horns and spines are also testaceous before the apex, the intermediate spine being almost 
entirely testaceous, with an obscure dark band in the middle; the horns are short, inflated at the base, 
sharp at the apex, and slightly recurved; metopidium with rather thick light sete, which are more 
or less present on the rest of the pronotum; pronotum rather coarsely and remotely punctured, uneven, 
deeply channelled in the middle if viewed from the side, posterior trispinose process inflated, with the 
intermediate spine moderately long, and the two side ones very short beyond the inflated portion; body 
dark, with the apex of the segments testaceous ; legs testaceous, with the apex of the posterior tibie and 
a spot before their base, and the upper part of the femora in part, dark. 
Long. 9 millim.; lat. int. corn. 4 millim. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Las Mercedes 8000 feet (Champion). 
One specimen. 
