March, 1922.] Funkhouser: South American Membracid.e. 25 



dark brown and extending just to apex of abdomen ; legs and under 

 surface of body greenish-yellow; tegmina with five apical and three 

 discoidal cells; head twice as broad as long with greatly projecting 

 clypeus and with ocelli very close together. 



Boethoos hirsuta new species. (PI. Ill, fig. i.) 



Head large, greatly produced forward, not deflexed ; roughly sculptured. 

 shining, not punctate, very sparingly pubescent, uniformly brown ; basal mar- 

 gin sinuate; eyes very large, sordid white with black centers; ocelli large, 

 prominent, amber-colored, about equidistant from each other and from the 

 eyes and situated about on an imaginary line drawn through centers of eyes ; 

 inferior margins of genae sinuate and decidedly upraised ; clypeuS longer than 

 wide, hardly extending below margins of gense, tip pubescent. 



Pronotum convex, somewhat swollen behind middle, dorsum nearly 

 straight ; rich brown ; an irregular greenish-yellow longitudinal patch on an- 

 terior half of dorsum extending from just above the head to a point about 

 halfway between line of humeral angles and tip of posterior process, this 

 patch wide in middle and narrow at each end ; another greenish-yellow band 

 extending transversely across the pronotum at right angles to the longitudinal 

 patch and confluent with it at posterior end ; entire pronotum coarsely and 

 strongly pvmctate and extremely hairy ; humeral angles prominent, rounded, 

 subtriangular ; median carina obsolete; metopidium sloping, wider than high; 

 posterior process heavy, blunt, tip rounded^ extending beyond tip of abdomen 

 but not reaching apices of tegmina. 



Tegmina shining brown, more or less coriaceous, central area narrowly 

 hyaline ; base punctate and opaque ; veins very irregular, black, prominent, 

 somewhat punctate ; clavus and part of corium concealed by pronotum ; four 

 apical and three discoidal cells exposed. Hind wings with apical cell stylate. 



Under surface of body brown ; legs and feet uniformly dark brown and 

 very pubescent. 



Length from front of head to tips of tegmina 8 mm. ; width between 

 humeral angles j,.-] mm. 



Type : female. 



Locality: Iquitos, Peru. May iS, 1920 (Parish). 



Large, very hairy; brown with a yellow longitudinal band on ante- 

 rior median area of dorsum and another transverse band across poste- 

 rior part of pronotum; head greatly produced forward, not deflexed; 

 posterior process rounded, not reaching apices of tegmina; tegmina 

 more or less coriaceous and about half concealed by pronotum. 



Boethoos nitida new species. (PI. HI, fig. 2.) 



Head long, pointed, extending almost directly forward, not deflexed. 



