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side: Primaries brown with a very narrow yellow line below the costa 

 and extending from near the middle of the wing to the base; on the outer 

 half of the costal margin and on the oliter margin are about ten yellow 

 lines. Secondaries with a subcostal yellow line and below this is another 

 one, bifid from the middle to the outer margin of the wing. The lower 

 two-thirds of the wing is white with five or six narrow fuscus lines in it. 

 Expanse of one wing 12 mm. 



Type, a male from Huigra, Ecuador, (S. N. Rhoads). 

 This is a very pretty and graceful little species. Gracilis 

 Felder appears to be its nearest ally. 



The known Membracidae of Ecuador 



(Homop.) 



By Dr. FREDERIC W. CODING, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 

 During a residence of more than six years in Ecuador, col- 

 lectors have been supplying material from which this list of 

 forty-five species of Membracidae is based, while heretofore 

 but eight had been recorded; those in my collection are indi- 

 cated by an *. Representatives of the subfamily Centrotinae 

 have not been identified from this Republic. Types of the 

 new species here described are in my collection. 



TRAGOPINAE. 



*Horiola picta Fabr. Coq. 111. Ins. ii, p. 78, pi. 18, f. 10. Hab.: Ana 

 Maria Farm, Province of Los Rios, (Rorer). 



*Horiola lineola Fabr. Syst. Ryn. p. 30. Hab.: Ana Maria Farm, 

 Province of Los Rios, (Rorer). 



*Horiola arcuata Fabr. Syst. Ryn. p. 29. Hab.: Ana Maria Farm, 

 Province of Los Rios, (Rorer). 



SMILIINAE. 



*Cyphonia clavata Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 264. Hab.: Machala, 

 Province of El Oro, (Rorer). 



Antonae guttipes Walk. List Horn. Brit. Mus., Suppl. p. 157. Hab.: 

 Xapo River, Province of El Oriente, (Walker). 



Gentrogonia centrotoides Walk. List Horn. Brit. Mus., Suppl. p. 138. 

 Hab.: Napo River, Province of El Oriente, (Walker). 



*Centrogonia flavo-limbata n. sp. (See description on another page.) 

 Hab.: Pifo, Province of Pichincha, (Campos). fr 



Acutalis (?) terminalis Walk. Ins. Saund. Horn. p. 76. Hab.: Pro- 

 vince of Pichincha, (Distant). 



