KAN ABA. 



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no complete scutelluin ; raesonotum furnished on both sides at apex 

 with a somewhat long laminate spine directed backward ; femora 

 moderately thickened, tibiae strongly longitudinally grooved ; 

 tegmina extending beyond the abdominal apex, subhyaline, apical 

 areas five, discoidal areas two. 



2218. Kanada irvinei, sp. n. 



Pronotum ochraceons ; lateral foveae behind eyes and apex of 

 posterior process black ; face and sternum black, abdomen beneath 

 dull testaceous ; femora dull casta)ieous, their apices and the tibiae 

 and tarsi ochraceous, tarsal claws black ; tegmina subhyaline, talc- 

 like, wrinkled, base ochraceous and opaque ; pronotum thickly. 



Fig. 63. — Kanada irvinei. 



palely, finely pilose, lateral angles very obtusely prominent ; 

 posterior process slightly elevated at base, broad for about two- 

 thirds its length, then narrowed to apex which is elongately acute, 

 centrally carinately ridged, the carination very obscure and sub- 

 obsolete on disk of pronotum. 



Length 3| millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Ranchi {Irvine). 



Species reported from India, but apparently in error. 



The following two species described under the genera 

 Hemij)tycha and ScapJiuIa, would, if their local habitats could be 

 authenticated, introduce a third subfamily, Barnince, into the 

 Membracidae of British India. This, however, is extremely un- 

 likely, but descriptions of the species are appended. Diagnoses 

 of the presumed genera are unnecessary. 



2219. Hemiptycha crux, Linn. (Cicada) Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i, p. 435 

 (1758) ; id. Mus. Lud. TJlr. p. 154 (1764) ; 8tal (Hemiptycha), 

 Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. x, p. 389 (1866); Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, 

 p. 90 (1885). 



" Puscous-testaceous ; thorax black, anteriorly obsoletely 

 sprinkled testaceous, behind the lateral processes broadly margined 

 with yellow, this yellow margin narrowed backward, extending 

 beyond the middle of the posterior process ; tegmina fuscous ; 

 pronotum distinctly punctulate, furnished with a very long and 



