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6. GENUS SPONGOPHORUS FAIRMAIRE 



Spongophorus Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 2hi (1846). 

 Cladonata Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 273 (1869). 



Characters : This is one of tlie most remarkable of all of tbe genera of the Membracidaj in 

 showing grotesque and bizarre pronotal developments which appear generally in the form of greatly 

 exaggerated dorsal processes. These most unusual and ahnost unbehevable structures have doubtless 

 suggested many of the specific names in the genus such as « inelegans >i , « ludicrus «, « mirabilis », 

 « paradoxus » and « ridicuhis n. Fairmaire speaks of the prothorax as « sometimes a bow, sometimes 

 presenting elongated or fungifovm swellings, sometimes extending beyond the extremity of the elytra » 

 but chooses as his definitive character the peculiar trilobed head, which is, indeed, a character sufficient 

 to distinguish it from all other genera of the tribe Notoceriui. Fairmaire notes, in addition, the fact that 

 the ocelli are on a line with the middle of the eyes and that the elongate tegmina are usually free. 



Type ballista Germar. 



Geographical distribution : 



1. affinis Fowler, B. C. .\., 29. 3 (1894). 



2. albofasciatus Goding, Can. Ent. XXV : 64. 5. (1893). 



3. atratus da Fonseca, .4rquiv. Instit. Biol. VII : 12. 162 (1936). 



4. balUsia Germar, Rev. Silb. III : 23i. i (i835). — Pl. I , fig. 6. 



claviger Stal, Hem. Mex. 68 (1864). 



apicalis Sta.\, Bid. Memb. Kan. 273. i (1869). 



brunneus Fallou, Rev. Ent. IX : 254(1891). 



5. bemetii Kirby, Mag. Nat. Hist. 20 (1869). 



6. biclavus Westwood. Int. Class Ins. II : 4^2 (1840). 



parvulus Buckton, Mon. Memb. 80 (1903). 



7. bivexillifer Costa, Mus. Nap. II : i5o (1862). 



8. championi Fowler, B. C. .\. 28, 2 (1894). 



g. cinereus Aa. Fonseca, Rev. Ent. III : 4. 445 (1933). 



10. clavaria Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 261. 4 (1846). 



11. cosiaia Buckton, Mon. Memb. 61 (1903). 



12. facetus Walker, Ins. Saund. 64 (i858). 



acelus (sic) Buckton, Mon. Memb. 82 (i9o3). 



i3. /ai/<«j Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. II : 24. 1. (1862). 



14. foliaius Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. .XXX : i. 8. (1922). 



i5. guerini Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 262. 6. (1846). 



spatiilalus Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 262. 7 (1846;. 

 dorsalis Buckton, Mon. Memb. 80 (igo3). 

 querini (sic) Comstock. Int. Ent. 404 (1924). 



16. inelegans Buckton, Mon. Memb. 82(1903). 



17. inflaius Fowler, B. C. A. 3o. 5 (1924). 



18. latifrons Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 272. 4 (1869). 

 ig. lividus Buckton, Mon. Memb. 81(1903). 



20. lobulaius Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 276. 6 (1869). 



21. locomotiva Breddin, Soc. Ent. 60 (igoi). 



Guatemala. 

 West Indies. 

 Brazil. 



Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, 

 Colombia. 



Colombia. 



Brazil, Panama, Mexico. 



South America. 



(juatemala. 



Brazil. 



Brazil. 



St. Vincent's. 



South America. 



Brazil. 

 Brazil. 



I^razil, Bolivia, Guiana, Pan- 

 ama. 



Mexico. 



(iuatemala. 



Mexico. 



Brazil. 



Bogota. 



Ecuador. 



