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CONTRIBUTIONS 

 TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE LEDRINM 



by 1¥.-L<. Distant. 



In working out the Ledrinœ of British India, for vol. IV of 

 « India Rhynchota » now being printed, I also studied a number 

 of other species from difterent localities, belonging to the British 

 Muséum and my own collection. Thèse I hâve included in this 

 paper with some synonymical notes. 



Family JASSIDJE. 



Subfamily LEDRIN/E. 



Ledrina Stâl, Ôfv. Yet-Ak. Fôrh., 1870, p. 731. 

 Ledridœ van Duzee, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, XIX, p. 296 (1892). 

 Stenocotinœ Kirk., Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, Pt. IX, 

 p. 368 (1906). 



Division Ledrinaria. 



Ledrinœ Kirk., Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, Pt. IX, p. 365 



(1906). 



Kirkaldy (supra) has proposed two subfamilies, Ledrinœ and 

 Stenocotinœ, for Stâl's group of gênera which he originally placed 

 in his Ledrina. Thèse are to be divided, and easily divided, by the 

 very différent position of the ocelli. They are treated hère as of 

 divisional importance. 



Genus TITURIA. 



Tituria Stâl, Ôfv. Vet-Ak. Fôrh. 1865, p. 158; id.. Hem. Afr., IV, 



p. 102 (1866). 

 Type, S. 'planata Fabr. 



Amyot and Serville (Hist. Hém., p. 577), proposed the genus 

 Epiclines for which as a représentative they gave the Ledra 

 planata Fabr. As however Stâl pointed out, the character they 

 gave for that genus « Prothorax incliné presque verticalement » 

 shows that Eiiiclines ^ the American genus Proranus Spin., and 

 that planata Fabr. cannot be included therein. Berg placed 



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