220 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



A great mass of material was secured, and as soon as it is put into proper 

 shape for examination will be submitted to specialists for detailed study and 

 report. As might be expected, the Antiguan material is much in excess of that 

 secured at Barbados. 



FOUR NEW AFRICAN MEMBRACID^.* 



BY W. D. FUNKHOUSER, LEXINGTON, KY. 



1. Anchon gunni, sp. nov. (Figs. 1 and 2). 



Near A. nodicornis Germar but lacking the anterior tooth on the angle of 

 the posterior process, and dififering in the markings of the pronotum and tegmina. 



Slender, black, punctate, sparingly pubescent; densely white tomentose 

 behind suprahumeral horns and on sides of thorax; suprahumeral horns long, 

 broadly foliaceous at tips which are strongly decurved and sharply pointed; 

 posterior process strongly angular at base, depressed at centre, tip just reaching 

 apex of abdomen; scutellum about as long as broad, strongly bidentate at tip; 

 tegmina smoky-hyaline with ferruginous margins; legs and under surface of 

 body brown, tarsi fllavous. 



Head broader than long, finely punctate, rather densely pubescent with 

 white hairs; base strongly convex, slightly sinuate; eyes prominent, gray- black; 

 ocelli large but not conspicuous, sordid gray, about equidistant from each 

 other and from the eyes and situated about on an imaginary line drawn through 

 centres of eyes; inferior margin of genae strongly sinuate; clypeus twice as long 

 as wide, black, punctate, pubescent, extending for more than half its length 

 below inferior margins of gense, tip rounded and weakly pilose. 



Pronotum black, finely punctate, rather sparingly pubescent with white 

 or silvery hairs; metopidium perpendicular, somewhat convex, about as broad 

 as high, narrowest at bases of horns; humeral angles very prominent, triangular, 

 acute; median carina strongly percurrent; suprahumeral horns long, narrow at 

 base but broadly foliaceous at tip, practically contiguous at bases, extending 

 upward and outward, the tips flattened, triangular, sharp, and suddenly bent 

 outward and backward; posterior process rising well above scutellum, then 

 bent sharply backward, sloping downward to meet internal angles of tegmina 

 and then following margins of tegmina to a point about as far caudad as the 

 end of the abdomen, tip very sharp and slightly decurved; scutellum about as 

 long as broad, black, punctate, gradually narrowed towards the apex which is 

 strongly bidentate; a dense linear patch of white tomentose pubescence extends 

 backward from the posterior base of each suprahumeral horn over the pro- 

 notum and on to the base of the scutellum. 



Tegmina long, narrow, smoky- hyaline, much wrinkled; base narrowly 

 brown, punctate and pubescent, internal apical margin tinged with ferruginous; 

 tips pointed; costal margin not marked with brown; five apical and two dis- 

 coidal cells. Hind wings with three apical cells. 



Under surface of body dark brown; sides of mesothorax and metathorax 

 densely white tomentose; hind trochanters not armed with spines; femora and 

 tibiee brown, tarsi flavous; claws brown. 



*Contribution from the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Kentucky. 

 October, 1919 



