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Length including tegmina 7 mm.; width between tips of suprahumeral 

 horns 5.8 mm. 



Type. — Female. 



Locality. — Pretoria, South Africa. 



Described from a specimen collected by Mr. David Gunn on January 8, 

 1915. Type in author's collection. I take pleasure in dedicating this species 

 to Mr. Gunn, who has so kindly furnished me with a large number of interest- 

 ing species of Membracidse from South Africa. 



The genus Anchon is apparently well represented in South Africa. Mr. 

 Gunn has sent me specimens of A. senegalensis Fairm., collected at the same 

 locality and at the same time as the above. 

 2. Anchonoides minutus, sp. nov. (Figs. 3 and 4). 



Small, black, punctate, densely pubescent; suprahumeral horns short and 

 ver>- thick: posterior process raised above scutellum, strongly sinuate but not 

 angulate, extending beyond internal angles of tegmina but not reaching apex of 

 abdomen; scutellum entirely exposed, longer than broad, bidentate; tegmina 

 smoky- hyaline faintly tinged with ferruginous, base brown; under surface of 

 body black; legs dark brown with tibiae somewhat ferruginous and tarsi flavous. 

 Head wider than long, black, finely punctate, densely pubescent; much 

 swollen in front; base convex and sinuate; eyes large, prominent, brown; ocelli 

 small, pearly, conspicuous, somewhat protruding, about equidistant from 

 each other and from the eyes and situated about on a line drawn through centres 

 of eyes; inferior margins of genee sinuate, lobed at margins of clypeus; clypeus 

 longer than wide, extending for half its length below inferior margins of gense. 

 Prothorax very dark brown in front, black behind, finely punctate, very 

 densely pubescent with silvery hairs; metopidium higher than wide, narrowest 

 at base of suprahumeral horns, brown on upper two- thirds, black just above 

 head, very roughly sculptured, swollen along central line; median carina per- 

 current; humeral angles large, prominent, triangular, acute; suprahumeral horns 

 very thick, heavy, short, roughly quadricarinate, extending almost directly out- 

 ward, about as long as the distance between their bases, tips sharp and decurved; 

 posterior process long, very slender, strongly sinuate, smooth, tricarinate, base 

 raised high above scutellum, tip sharp and decurved, extending beyond internal 

 angles of tegmina but not reaching apex of abdomen; scutellum entirely exposed, 

 a little longer than wide, brown, punctate, densely pubescent, gradually narrowed 

 toward tip which is strongly bidentate ; a linear white tomentose patch extending 

 backward over the pronotum from the base of each suprahumeral horn and 

 covering external basal angle of scutellum. 



Tegmina smoky- hyaline, wrinkled; a ferruginous spot at internal angle, 

 another at distal end of basal costal cell and a faint fascia at apical margin; 

 base brown, coriaceous and punctate; tip rounded, veins strong, ferruginous, 

 marked with brown in central areas; four apical cells. Hind wings with three 

 apical cells. 



Under surface of body black; sides of thorax densely pubescent; margins 

 of abdominal segments ferruginous; coxae, trochanters and femora dark brown, 

 tibiae ferruginous and minutely spined, tarsi flavous. 



Length including tegmina 5 mm., width between tips of suprahumeral 

 horns 3 mm. 



