Dec, 1919.] Funkhouser: New Neotropical Membracid.e. 271 



Type: female. Locality: Chosica, Peru (altitude 2,800 ft.). Collector: 

 Parish. 



Described from two females and two males collected by Mr. H. S. 

 Parish at Chosica, Peru, on June 9, 1914. The males are slightly 

 smaller and considerably darker than the females. This species is 

 near C. elegans Fowler, but is very distinct in the shape of the supra- 

 humeral horns and metopidium. 



Stictocephala elevata new species. 



Large, reddish-brown, coarsely punctate, not pubescent ; pronotum very 

 high in front; lateral carina? of metopidium not sharp and meeting almost di- 

 rectly above the humeral angles ; tegmina yellowish hyaline, slightly coriaceous 

 and punctate at base, veins prominent and reddish; thorax and abdomen red- 

 dish-brown ; legs reddish-brown with tips of tibia; broadly bordered with black, 

 claws dark brown or black. 



Head triangular, reddish-brown, roughly sculptured, not punctate, shining; 

 base of head sinuate, depressed near eyes, upraised in middle; eyes large, 

 prominent, brown; ocelli very large, yellowish, bordered with red; lower mar- 

 gins of genae sinuate; clypeus very long, extending for more than two thirds 

 its length below the inferior margin of the head, gradually narrowing toward 

 the tip, not pubescent, impunctate, smooth, shining. 



Pronotum uniformly reddish-brown, coarsely and evenly punctate, not 

 pubescent, very high in front, highest just above humeral angles; median carina 

 sharply and strongly percurrent ; semicircular impressions distinct ; metopidium 

 perpendicular, only slightly convex, sides not sharply carinate but lateral angles 

 meeting above at a point about on a line with the humeral angles ; dorsum 

 almost straight from top of metopidium to apex of posterior process ; posterior 

 process long, slender, acuminate, very slightly deflexed at tip, tip minuately 

 black, extending just beyond apex of abdomen and about to the base of the 

 apical cell of tegmen. 



Tegmina yellowish-hyaline, slightly reddish, coriaceous and punctate at 

 base; veins strong, reddish and irregularly punctate particularly in basal area. 



Thorax and undersurface of body uniformly reddish-brown. Legs reddish- 

 brown ; distal ends of tibiae broadly banded with black; claws black. 



Length, 8.5 mm. ; width between humeral angles, 3 mm. ; height from apex 

 of clypeus to crest of metopidium, 4.4 mm. 



Type: female. Locality: Marcapata, Peru. 



I have this species also from Callanga, Peru. The species of 

 Membracidse belonging to the genera Ceresa and Stictocephala are 

 inclined to change color decidedly in museums. In life they are 

 usually green or greenish which color changes to yellowish or red- 



