64 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



transverse medially narrowed band, and followed by anotber one near 

 the apex, the second band with tbe posterior margin deeply concave, 

 neither of them extending to the sutural and lateral margins ; under 

 side and legs black. 



Of this species I have only a single female specimen before 

 me, but the strong punctuation of the elytra differs so much from 

 any of its allies that it cannot be mistaken for any other species. 

 Clytlira notata, Klug, resembles the present insect greatly, but is 

 of larger size ; the head is differently coloured, the thorax of 

 different shape and markings, and the elytral bands likewise 

 differ, as well as the sculpture. 



(To be continued.) 



ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION OP THE 

 AUCHENOERHYNCHOUS HOMOPTERA. 



By Dr. H. J. Hansen. 



(Continued from p. 44.) 



The posterior tibiaG in a more typical Jassine — for example, a 

 Tettigo7iia or Idiocerus — are, as is well known, quadricarinate, 

 and also more or less conspicuously compressed (or at least never 

 depressed), so that the posterior* surface is narrower than the 

 surfaces on both sides, and, in every case, than the anterior 

 surface ; moreover, at least, the two margins which limit the 

 posterior surface are endowed with several or many spines. A 

 similar structure is found in the fine Australian genus Eurymela, 

 Hoffmansegg, which in consequence of its entire structure may 

 well stay in the neighbourhood of the Bythoscopine group. The 

 genus Paropia, Germ., which is ranged by Sahlberg as a some- 

 what aberrant group even beyond Ulopa, by Kirschbaum and 

 Fieber as representing a peculiar family, seems to me to he a 

 very good Jassine in the structure of posterior tibiae, the cheeks, 

 antennae, &c. ; to lay great stress on excavations on the frons 

 and vertex appears to me extremely absurd. Paropia ought, it 

 seems to me, to stand, judging from its whole structure, in the 

 neighbourhood of the Bythoscopini. The interesting genus 

 Ledra, F., seems, at a first glance, to diverge strongly from the 

 other Jassinse by the remarkable head, the often two-flapped 

 pronotum, and the cultrate posterior tibiae ; it is on this account 

 signaHzed by Fieber as representing a family, by Sahlberg (1. c. 

 p. 103) as forming a transition to the Membracinae, " to which it 

 is by some authors referred," a supposition entirely without good 



'■'• The nomenclature of various surfaces here and later on is not always 

 strictly in accordance with the original. Any alteration is either initiated or 

 endorsed by the author. — G . "W. K. 



