Mr. Wesrwoop on the Family Fulgoridæ. 135 
In the year 1830, Dr. Germar published a memoir upon these insects in the 
second volume of Dr. Thon's Entomologisches Archiv, in which he gave the 
following characters of the family, and its distribution into genera. 
FULGORELL2. 
Antennz biarticulatæ, articulo secundo papilloso setigero. Oculi laterales, 
genis perpendicularibus inserti, eagumque margine circumsepti. Ocellum 
utrinque solitarium aut nullum. Tibiæ posticæ apice spinis ciliate, tar- 
sorum articulo Imo elongato. | 
I. Margo costalis elytrorum levis aut irregulariter striatus. 
A. Antenne oculis breviores, capitulo incrassato. 
1. Clypeus a fronte disjunctus . . . . . . . . Fulgora. 
2. Clypeus cum fronte conjunctus facie elliptica. 
4. Oculis sessilibus. 
. Ocellum utrinque conspicuum . . . . . Hlata. 
B. Ocelli nulli. 
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**. Elytris perpendiculariter decumbentibus . Amphiscepa. 
b. Oculis saltem in inferiore parte pedunculatis, clypei 
margine laterali involutis. . . . . . . . Lystra. 
B. Antennz oculos superantes, capitulo cylindrico. 
1. Tibiæ posticæ apice appendice gladiiformi instructe. 
a. Capitulum articulo basilari longius . . . . . Delphar. 
b. Capitulum articulo basilari brevius . e. . Asiraca. 
2. Tibiæ posticæ muticze. 
é Papih . wia. 
5. Palpis quatuor . : . - + Ofſfiocerus. 
II. Margo costalis elytrorum striis parallelis transversis percussus. 
A. Ale perpendiculariter deflexæ . . . . . . . . Peciloptera. 
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By this arrangement nine species only were comprehended in the genus 
Fulgora, several being here first described, so that the major part of the Lin- 
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