LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF MEMBRACID.E, 331 



The iipper edge of pronotum broadly black at the summit, which shade is continued 

 as a black line nearly to the apex of the tcgmen. The tegmina ample and pointed, at 

 the tips, with a broad limbal edge and of a fine purple-brown colour, too dense to 

 show the neuration. Frons pale sordid brown. Legs rather spatulate. Size 15x0 

 millimetres. 



Mus^e de Madrid. 



AcoNOPHORA OBFUSCATA, sp. n. (Plate 21. fig. 5.) 



Pronotum porrect, or projected forwards as a flat sliai'p horn, laminated at the edges. 

 Colour dark fuscous and mottled. Pronotvim carried to the posterior end, which 

 terminates in a point nearly reaching to the tips of the tegmina. Legs rather long, with 

 yellow tibisei Tegmina pale ochreous with a fuscous neux*ation. 



This insect is somewhat like A. flavipes, but it is not so large and the given locality 

 differs also. 



Hab. Mexico. Size 11 X 4 millimetres. 



Tragopa triangulata. (Plate 21. fig. 6.) 



Small. General aspect scutiform, Pronotum, viewed from the dorsal aspect, 

 trapezoidal or four-sided. Tegmina short, much corrugated, and difficult to separate 

 from the abdomen. Suprahumerals hardly visible, but by the frontal aspect rather 

 auriculate, suggesting some affinity to Chelyoida *. Eyes large and prominent. Legs 

 short and robust. Colour sordid ochreous, with dark fuscous on the thorax and on the 

 abdomen. Size 4x4 millimetres, » 



Musee de Madrid. 



PoppEA succiNEA, sp. n. (Plate 21. fig. 7.) 



Pale amber-yellow, rather transparent. Pronotum raised into bulbous tubercles, the 

 posterior bidb of which forms two stout processes, somewhat similar to the suprahumeral 

 horns. Eyes prominent. Tegmina hyaline, glistening, but corrugated, and with a broad 

 limbus. The suprahumerals are divergent and united between the shoulders to a button- 

 like scvitellum, which joins the tuberculous dorsum. 



This insect has a considerable resemblance to Poppea concinna j, but is larger and has 

 more robust suprahumerals. 



Sab. Mexico. Size 9 X 3 millimetres. 



Musee de Madrid. 



Electrophika pacificata (genus et species nov.). (Plate 21. fig. 8.) 

 Has some of the characters of a Ceresa, particularly in the neuration of the tegmina, 

 which are remarkaljle for their length, viz. about twice that of the body, and also by 

 the occurrence of conspicuous suprahumeral horns. These are barely visible in Ceresa. 



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 „ . . , * Mon. Mcmbracidas, pi. 'i'o. fig. 2, p. 150. 



t See Mon. Membracidse, pi. 34. fig. 5. 



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