Some Philippine Membracidae 



W. D. FUNKHOUSER* 



Through the courtesy of Prof. C. F. Baker I have received 

 the following interesting series of Membracidae from the Phil- 

 ippine Islands. Eight genera including sixteen species are 

 represented, of which one genus and six species are new. It 

 is of interest to note that all of the forms belong to the Old 

 World Centrotina? which seems to be the dominant su])family 

 of Membracidfe in the Philippines as well as in eastern Asia. 



I. Pyrgonota hifoliata Westw. 

 (Fig. 1) 

 1837 Centrotus hifoliatns Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. 130. 

 1841 Smilia hifoliata Westw. Guer. Mag. Zool. Ser. 2. III. 



Ins. PI. 83. 

 1846 Hypsauclienia ivestwoodi Fairm. Rev. Memb. 521. 2. 



PL 7. figs. 6, 7, 8, 

 1846 Hypsauchenia hifoliata Fairm. Rev. Memb. 521. 

 1851 Hypsauchenia westwoodi Walk. List Hom. B.M. 631. 2. 

 1851 Hypsauchenia hifasciata Walk. List Hom. B.M. 631. 3. 

 1870 Pyrgonota hifoliata Stal Hem. Phil. 731. 3. 

 1903 Hypsauchenia westwoodi Buckt. Mon. Memb. 211. PI. 



46. figs. 6, 6a. 

 1903 Pyrgonota hifoliata Buckt. Mon. Memb. 270. 

 1906 Hypsauchenia hifoliata Schmidt Stet. Ent. Zeit. 370. 

 Two specimens of this remarkable insect which is one of the 

 most bizarre of the Membracidae. There seems little doubt as 

 to the identity of the hifoliata and ivestwoodi as recognized by 

 Stal and the distinctive character of the pronotal horn would 

 seem to warrant the retaining of the genus Pyrgonota as estab- 

 lished by that author. 



II. Tricentrus Fairmairei Stal. 

 1859 Cent rot IIS fairmairei Stal Freg. Eug. resa Ins. 284. 192. 

 1866 Tricentrus fairmairei Stal Analect. Hem. 387. 

 1870 Tricentrus fairmairei Stal Hem. Phil. 728. 3. 



* Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University. 



