oan. i 
XIV. Some new species of Membracide. By the Rev. 
Canon Fow ter, M.A., F.L.S. 
[Read 14th March, 1894.] 
I wave for some time past been engaged in working out 
the Membracidz for the Biologia Centrali-Americana, and 
in the course of my work I have received a large number 
of specimens from the Vienna Museum through the 
kindness of Dr. Ganglbauer and Herr Handlirsch, and 
from the Belgian Museum through the kindness of M. 
Severin; I am also much indebted for help to Dr. 
Aurivillius of the Stockholm Museum, but as_ the 
specimens he has sent me are exclusively Central Ameri- 
can there are none that I can here notice; among the 
others, however, there are several interesting species 
which lie outside the scope of the Biologia, and a few of 
these I have described below. 
At present there is great confusion with regard to 
certain of the genera of this very extensive and interesting 
group of insects, partly owing to the fact that Walker’s 
work, though embracing a large number of genera and 
species, was very slight, and in some cases most con- 
fusing, as he places the most dissimilar insects under one 
genus, and partly because Stal, if in doubt, appears to 
have disregarded Walker’s work, and redescribed the 
species. 
Tropidoscyta transiens, sp. n. 
Parva, brevis, testacea, aureo-pubescens, capite magno, antice 
rotundato, pronoto inzequali, antice in cornu brevissimum rotun- 
datum fuscum producto, carinis duabus supra humeros valde 
elevatis, humeris ipsis prominulis, dorso remotius punctato, carina 
centrali instruct, a latere viso pone medium fortiter sinuatim 
depresso, apice fusco perobtuso ; tegminibus apicem prothoracis 
longe superantibus, hyalinis, venis testaceis, maculisque quibusdam 
obscure brunneis ; corpore subtus fusco, postice testaceo ; pedibus 
testaceis. 
TRANS. ENT, SOC. LOND. 1894,—PART II. (JUNE.) 
