239) 
XIII. LopuHopipae. 
Lophopida Stal (1866), Hem. Afr., IV, p. 130; type Lophops Spinola 
(1i839)Anny Soc. Ent.) Bra, Vill, p: 387. 
This small and homogeneous family was monographed by 
Melichar in 1915, and twenty-seven genera were then recog- 
nized. The head is narrower than the thorax and there is a 
tendency for the middle portion of the frons to be produced; 
the front legs are flattened and expanded in most cases; the 
hind margin of pronotum is truncate; the clypeus is keeled later- 
ally ; the hind basitarsus is short and generally swollen; there is 
a distinct costal area with cross-veins. 
I donot follow Melichar’s tribes, as the characters he uses do 
not hold true, and he has placed some of his genera into the 
wrong tribes, according to his own characters. 
The ovipositor 1s incomplete. The aedeagus has a large peri- 
andrium (figs. 15, 17, 19), often considerably complex ; the penis 
forms a short tube with a pair of processes, often of a complex 
nature. It is a specialization upon the Dictyophara type near to 
the Ricantidae. 
XIV. RICANIIDAE. 
Ricaniida Stal, Hem. Afr., IV, p. 219 (1866); type Ricania Germ. 
Mag. Ent., III, p. 221 (1818). 
Head wide, in a few cases narrower than the pronotum. Pro- 
notum slightly roundly emarginate on hind margin; mesonotum 
very large. Tegmina large, steeply tectiform when at rest, a 
costal area with transverse veins always present, which is quite 
distinct. even when narrow; clavus not granulate, apex closed, 
pointed, claval vein reaching apex, the costal veins joining before 
the middle or shortly beyond the middle. Posterior tibiae with 
spines; hind basitarsi short. 
In 1898, when Melichar monographed the family, he recog- 
nized thirty-one genera. A few more have been added since. 
He divided the family into two groups. 
1. (2) Frons wider than long, or as wide as long; the sides of eclypeus 
WILE OWE CAMINIA OP even ueyecnettencdar Paks ote. cls Gusto, eoitucie ths oreicte os Ricaniini 
2. (1) Frons distinctly longer than wide or as wide as long; in the latter 
case the clypeus has lateral carinae.................. Nogodini 
I believe a better classification can be made on the venation, 
