10 MEMBRACID.E. 



Division HYPS A UCHENIARIA. 



Head almost triangular ; pronotum without lateral processes 

 but produced upwards in a compressed process generally curved 

 backward \\itli its apex bilobed ; sides of pro- and mesosterna 

 armed with a small lobe or tooth. 



Synoims of Genera. 



A. Posterior pronotal process lobately elevated 



before apex IIypsauchenia, p. 10. 



B. Posterior pronotal process slender, straight, 



without a subapical elevation IIybanda, p. 13. 



Genus HYPSAUCHENIA. 



Ilvpsauchenia, Germ, in Silb. Bev. Ent. iii, p. 230 (1835) ; Amy. S^- 

 'Serv. Hem. p. 535 (1843) ; Fainn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 184G,p. 520 ; 

 StSl, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 86 (1866) ; id. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1860, 

 p. 280; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 80 (1885). . 



Type, H. hardtvicli, W. Kirby. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion. 



Head almost triangular, trilobed towards extremity ; pronotum 

 shorter than the tegmina, without lateral processes, but produced 

 npward in a compressed process generally curved backward with 

 its apex bilobed ; posterior process apically oue-lobed, slender, 

 narrow at base, narrower than the scutellum which is visible, 

 and before apex angularly upwardly |)roduced ; tegmina extending 

 considerably beyond the abdominal apex, their apical margins 

 obliquely truncate, their apical angles longly produced ; tibia? 

 simple, not dilated ; sides of pro- and mesosterna armed with a 

 small lobe or tooth. 



(jrermar gave as his type //. baUista from Demerara. Fairmaire, 

 however, satisfied himself that the habitat was erroneous aud that 

 the species was a synonym of H. har</wicl-i, W. Kirby. 



2112. Hypsauchenia hardwicki, W. Kirby (Centrotns), A. M. N. H. 



ii, p. 21, f. iib (1829) ; Fairm. (Ilvpsauchenia) Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Fr. 1846. p. 520, t. iii, ff. 20, 21; Atkins. J. A. S. B. hv, 



p. 80 (1885) ; Buckt. Mon. Memhrac. p. 210, t. xlvi, f. 3, a, b 



(1903). 

 llypsanchenia ballista, Germ, in Silb. Bev. Ent. iii, p. 231 (1835). 

 Var. tloralis, Bnekt. Mon. Membrac. p. 210 (1903). 

 Var. pygmren, Buckt. tom. cit. p. 211, t. xlvii, f. 1 (1903). 



Piceous ; tegmina and legs brownish-piceous ; pronotum granu- 

 lose, its discal process curved backward, tricarinate above, apically 

 bilobed ; the lobes broad, wrinkled, basally broadly separated and 

 there enclosing a circular space, their apices with a slight slender 



