18, 6 Funkhouser: Philippine Membracide 685 
Leptobelus elevatus sp. nov. Plate 1, figs. 8 and 9. — 
Black, shining, punctate, partly pubescent; pronotal elevation 
very high, branching at top into two long, sharp, lateral horns; 
posterior process long, slender, decurved, arising well below bases 
of lateral horns and extending beyond internal angles of tegmina; 
scutellum’ entirely exposed, much longer than wide, gradually 
acuminate; tegmina bronze hyaline with black punctate base 
and brown veins; undersurface of body dark brown; legs black; 
tarsi flavous. : 
Head subquadrangular, wider than long, convex, black, shin- 
ing, faintly longitudinally striate, lightly punctate, base strongly 
convex; eyes large, brown, mottled with flavous; ocelli small, 
pearly, farther from each other than from the eyes and sit- 
uated well above an imaginary line drawn through centers of 
eyes; clypeus smooth, black, shining, flat, neither pubescent nor 
punctate, more or less trilobed at apex, extending for more 
than half its length below the apical margins of the gene. 
Pronotum black, very coarsely punctate, shining, without 
pubescence in front but lightly pubescent behind, rising in 
a cone-shaped turret above the humeral angles to a height equal 
to its width and then extending upward and slightly forward 
as a roughly cylindrical process from which is given off the 
posterior process at about its middle and two long, sharp, lateral 
horns at its extremity; lateral horns sharp, irregularly quadri- 
carinate, extending almost directly outward, very slightly down- 
ward and with tips bent slightly backward, each horn about 
as.long as the maximum width of the metopidium; posterior 
process long, slender, sharp, almost uniform in thickness 
throughout its length, sharply and distinctly quadricarinate, 
very highly elevated above the body and extending to a 
point about one-third the distance from the internal angles 
to the tips of the tegmina; humeral angles small, blunt, not 
prominent; metopidium convex, higher than wide; scutellum 
entirely exposed, longer than wide, gradually acuminate, base 
densely pubescent, the pubescence extending upward on the 
pronotum to the base of the posterior process, tip very roughly 
punctate and slightly decurved; tegmina smoky hyaline, bases 
narrowly black, coriaceous and punctate, veins brown, tips ex- 
tending beyond end of abdomen. 
Undersurface of body very dark brown, almost black, spar- 
ingly pubescent, with short silvery hairs; legs black, femora 
smooth, tibie strongly spined, tarsi and claws flavous. 
