Dec, IQI9-] Fuxkhouser: New Xeotropical Membracid.e. 269 



Centrogonia lutea new species. 



Large, rough, yellow, coarsely punctate, sparingly pubescent ; tegmina en- 

 tirely free, hyaline ; posterior process long, narrow, sinuate, extending to a 

 point half-way between tip of abdomen and apex of tegmen ; suprahumeral 

 horns thick, heavy, blunt, projecting almost directly laterad as seen from the 

 front ; abdomen yellow with segments bordered with brown ; legs yellow with 

 brown spots on middle and hind trochanters. 



Head about as long as wide, very roughly sculptured, not punctate except 

 for five large black depressions, one at base of head on median line, one on 

 each side of base of head about half way between median suture and eye and 

 one at upper internal angle of each eye. not pubescent except on clypeus ; base 

 of head sinuate, highly rounded in middle ; eyes prominent, mottled brown, dis- 

 tinctly set off from lateral margins of head and extending laterad half as far as 

 the humeral angles ; ocelli prominent, pearly, bordered with reddish, about 

 equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated slightly below a 

 line drawn through centers of eyes; front of head deeply sulcate down median 

 line and just outside each ocellus and irregularly mottled with brown ; genae 

 arcuate, flanged, with brown spot on median cephalic margin ; clypeus longer 

 than wide, extending far below inferior outline of head, convex, pilose with 

 long silvery hairs. 



Pronotum yellow in cabinet specimens, probably greenish in life, roughly 

 sculptured, very coarsely punctate, some of the punctures brown, sparingly 

 pilose with long bristling hairs ; metopidium perpendicular, strongly hollowed 

 out above each eye, roughly sculptured and punctate, median ridge broad and 

 irregular ; humeral angles prominent, obtuse ; suprahumeral horns subcylin- 

 drical, without carinae. heavy, blunt, extending almost directly outward as seen 

 from the front but directed slightly backward and upward as seen from above 

 and behind, brownish above, luteus below ; dorsum nearly straight, median 

 ridge faintly percurrent. lateral semicircular impression pronounced, a few of 

 the coarse punctures irregularly brown especially in posterior region ; posterior 

 process long, slender, subcylindrical. luteus faintly mottled with brown, slightly 

 deflexed, extending well beyond apex of abdomen but not reaching tips of 

 tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, base very slightly punctate, veins strong and yellowish. 



Thorax and abdomen yellow with segments of abdomen strongly bordered 

 with brown. 



Legs yellow with middle and hind trochanters showing a large brown lat- 

 eral spot. 



Length including tegmina, 10 mm. ; width between tips of suprahumeral 

 horns. 4.6 mm. 



Type: female. Locality: Bogota. Colombia. 



I am indebted to Revdo. Apolinar Maria. Colegio de la Salle. 

 Bogota. Colombia, for the two specimens of this species which I have 



