March, 1922.] FUNKHOUSER: SoUTH AMERICAN MembRACID^. 7 



swollen just above humeral angles ; humeral angles not prominent ; anterior 

 pronotum produced upward and forward in a blunt point with rounded 

 apex; median carina percurrent, very sharp and somewhat foliaceous on 

 posterior two thirds of pronotum ; posterior process short, gradually acuminate, 

 reaching slightly beyond internal angles of tegmina and just about to tip of 

 abdomen. 



Tegmina ferruginous ; subhyaline ; slightly lighter in color at apex just 

 above the tip ; base and basal costal margin coriaceous, punctate and pubescent ; 

 veins prominent, somewhat pilose ; five apical and two discoidal cells. 



Legs and under surface of body concolorous ferruginous ; first and second 

 tibiae very foliaceous ; hind tibiae not flattened, armed with short black spines. 



Length from front of head to tips of tegmina 4.8 mm. ; from apex of 

 anterior pronotum to tips of tegmina 5.6 mm. ; width between tips of humeral 

 angles 2.4 mm. 



Type : female. 



Locality: Flores, Manaos, Brazil. Nov. 7, 1919 (Parish). Paratypes 

 from Parintius, Brazil, Oct. 3, 1919- 



Large, concolorous ferruginous except a faint whitish spot just 

 before apex of posterior process; pronotum produced forward in a 

 blunt point ; median carina sharp and compressed, but no other ridges 

 on pronotum; tegmina ferruginous, somewhat lighter at apex above 

 the tip; legs and under surface of body entirely and uniformly fer- 

 ruginous. 



Hypsoprora albopicta new species. (PI. I, fig. 8.) 



Head twice as long as wide ; entirely covered with a snow-white tomentose 

 secretion with scattered black points ; base arcuate ; eyes very large, promi- 

 nent, brown ; ocelli very large, prominent, shining amber, translucent, more 

 than twice as far from each other as from the eyes and situated well above 

 a line drawn through centers of eyes, less than their own diameter from 

 inferior margin of pronotum ; margins of genae straight, apices produced in 

 sharp triangular points; clypeus very large, longer than wide, white with 

 black points, extending for more than half its length beyond inferior margins 

 of genre, widest at center, sinuate on each side, tip pointed and pilose. 



Pronotum dark brown, very coarsely punctate, sparingly pubescent, irreg- 

 ularly marked with snow-white tomentose patches which extend transversely 

 across the pronotal horn and longitudinally over the shoulders and down the 

 posterior process ; pronotal horn nearly as long as the body, slender, uniformly 

 cylindrical, very slightly compressed above middle, anterior and posterior 

 margins armed with fine teeth, tip slightly expanded on each sjde ; metopidium 

 convex; median carina strongly percurrent; posterior process long, heavy, 

 narrowest in middle, swollen at apical end which is faintly tricarinate, greatl> 

 decorated with white, tip acute and just reaching apices of tegmina. 



