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PLATE LXXI. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME NEW FULGORID FROM COLOMBIA AND 
MEXICO. 
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FULGORA (EPISCIUS?) AMABILIS, Westw. 
(Annals of Nat. Hist., April, 1842.) 
(Plate 71, fig. 1.) 
F. rostro (thoracis longitudine, supra plano, subconico apice subtruncato) capite pro- et meso- 
notis griseo-fuscis, metanoti et abdominis dorso testaceo maculis nigris; alis anticis 
brunneo-fuscis apice pallidioribus, fusco-nebulosis ; posticis basi fulvis medio fuscis 
apice hyalinis. 
Long. corp. lin. 55. Expans. alar. lin. 104. 
Habitat Mexico. In Mus. Hope et nostr. 
Tus elegant little insect, in its elongated flattened rostrum, 
agrees with the Fulgora platyrhina of Germar and my monograph 
published in the Linnzan Transactions, vol. xviii., (which the 
Marquis Spinola* and M. Serville+ have separated as a distinct 
genus, under the name of Episcius Spinole). It differs from it, how- 
ever, in its rostrum being more elongated, with both the upper and 
under surfaces more entire, and especially in the narrow, ordinary 
form of the fore wings. The structure of the anal appendages is 
also different. These differences are, probably, in this group, of 
not higher than specific value; and hence possibly the Aphana 
corticina of Burmeister (a Brazilian insect, measuring nearly 23 
inches in the expanse of the fore wings, quite distinct from the 
Dilobura corticina of Spinola, which measures only 22 lines in 
expanse), as well as Spinola’s species (which M. Serville has named 
D. Spinola), and another closely-allied Brazilian insect in my own 
collection; ought, probably, to be reduced into one group, distin- 
guished by the elongated and flattened rostrum.§ This group is 
peculiar to the New World, for Homalocephala, the Old World type, 
(consisting of African and East Indian species,) the only other group 
with a flattened poirected forehead, can scarcely be said to have the 
* Aun. Soc. Ent. de France, 1839, p. 252. 
+ Hist. Nat. Ins. Hemipt., 1843, p. 494. 
t Dilobura subocellata, Westw. Albido-lutescens fronte subtus subtricarinato et nigro- 
marginato, capite et thorace supra rugosis, abdomine nitido segmentis basi utrinque nigro- 
maculatis, alis anticis albido-lutescentibus fusco subreticulatis maculisque rotundatis luteis, 
versus apicem alarum magis indistinetis, alis posticis albis, pedibus supra nigro-maculatis 
tibiis posticis extus 6-spinosis, spinis apicalibus haud inclusis. 
Long. corp. lin. 93. Expans. alar. antic. lin. 30. (une. 23). 
Habitat in Brasilia interiori. Mus. Westw. 
§ Fulgora planirostris of Donovan (Ins. N. Holl.), which Serville refers to the genus 
Homalocephala, belongs to the Cicadellideous, not to the Fulgorideous section of the family. 
