Homoptcrous Jamil// Membracida?. 359' 



HENICONOTUS, Stal. 



1. Ilcnlcontitns Jioriidtis. 



Memhracis horrlda, Fabr., Eut. Syst. iv, p. 12, 18 (1794). 



Heteronotus fnscus, De Laporte, Ann. Eat. i, p. 98, 6 (1832). 



Comhopliora bulliferri, Burm., Silb. Revue Ent. i, p. 229, 4 

 (1833). 



Heteronvtus cxcisns, Walker, List Homopt. ii, p. 593, 5 

 (1.S51). 



Para (Wallace). Walker's Type, Brit. Mus. 



2. Heniconotux ccthi<>/)s, n. sp. PI. VII, f. 7. 



Blackish piceous, shining ; head Avith the anterior margins 

 and a central stripe yellow ; anterior portion of the pronotum 

 armed with two long slender oblique divergent spines, each 

 surrounded at the base by a yellow anuulus, the margins, and 

 a U shaped line in front yellow ; a yellow trigouate lateral spot 

 on each side of the constriction in front of the first node, the 

 latter obtusely obconical and quite black ; second and terminal 

 node obtusely conical trisjjinose, the lateral spines being long, 

 slender and tipped with yellow, the third spine emitted from 

 l)elow (in a curved oblique position slanting outwards), still 

 longer than the lateral spines and also tipped with yellow ; 

 tegmina pale yellowish hyaline, with the apical area biirnt-sienna 

 Ijrown, base black, veins piceous ; legs piceous, the hind femora 

 tipped with yellow ; abdomen yellow, with the exception of 

 the sexual organs, venter grey, s])otted with yellow. Length 

 including tegmina 12^ mm. 



Ecuador (Buckley). Type Brit. Mus. 



Readily distinguished from the joreceding by the proximity of 

 the nodes to each other, the small size of the terminal one and 

 the great length of its sj^ines. 



3. Ileniconotiis bi-Uiger, v.. sp. PI. Vll, f. 13. 



Testaceous ; pronotum l)lack, becoming piceous in front, the 

 anterior portion armed with two long slender divergent curved 

 spines, lateral borders and two arched stripes, which unite in 

 front, yellow ; first node only separable by a slight depression 

 and its more intensely black hue from the anterior portion ; 

 terminal node separated l)y ])cduncle from tlie first, extremely 

 small but armed witli three unusually long slender yellow-tipped 

 spines, the two upper ones }-rojectiiig upwards and outwards at 



