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head is subquadrate, all of the tibiae very foliaceous, the sides of the jnonotum rugose or roughly sculp- 

 tured and the dorsum smooth. The tegmina are long and narrow and the cells of the apical area mucli 

 given to irregularity and a multicellular condition. The insectsare inconspicuous and of somber colors. 



Type bicolor Walker. 



Geographical distribution : 



1. ascendens Waiker, List Hom. B. M. 493. 40 (i85i). 



2. bicolor Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. 126 (i858). 



curvicnrnis Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 279. 228 (1869). 



3. californensis Goding, Cat. N. A. Memb. 466. 228 (1894). 



Pl. i.fig. 7. 



4. dubia Fowler, B. C. A. 22. 4 (1894). 



5. elephas Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. H : 23. 11 (i858). 



6. ferruginosa Goding, Cat. N. \. Memb. 466. 227 (1894). 



7. lituus Fowler, B. C. A. 21, i (1894). 



8. lowryi Plummer, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. XXIX : 4. 682 (1936). 



9. minor Fovvler, B. C. A. 22. 3 (1894). 



10. pallidipennis Walker, Ins. Saund. 63 (i858). 



11. strigulata Buckton, Mon. Memb. 57 (igo3). 



12. vitreipennis Fowler, B. C. A. 21. 2 (1894). 



Colombia, Ecuador. 

 Brazil, Colombia. 



— United States. 



Mexico. 



Brazil. 



United States. 



Mexico. 



Mexico. 



Guatemala. 



Chile, Colombia. 



Brazil. 



Mexico 



9. GENUS HYPSOPRORA Stal 



Hypsoprora Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 277 (1869). 



Characters : Closely related to Philya but differing in having the dorsum decorated with spines 

 and often bearing an erect median dorsal process. The anterior horn is strongand is produced upward 

 or forward. AU three pairs of tibiae are strongly foliaceous. The tegmina are lanceolate and are 

 generally opaque with the venation indistinct. All of the insects of this genus are of small size and of 

 inconspicuous colors. 



Type pileata Fairmaire. 



Geographicai distribution : 



1. albopicta Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : 17 (1922). 



2. anatina Fowler, B. C. A. 26. 3 (1894). 



3. aspera Haviland, Zoologica VI : 3. 242(1925). 



4. coronata Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. 14. 38 (i8o3). — Pl. I , fig. 8. 



varia Walker, List Hom. B. M. 5o2. 17 (i85i). 



5. erecta da Fonseca, Rev. Ent. III : 4. 441 (1933). 



6. nigerrima Fowler, B. C. A. 25. 2 (1894). 



7. nogolata Ball, Proc, Biol. Soc. Wash. XLVI : 29 (1^33). 



8. pileata Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 266. 12 (1846). 



9. simplex Van Duzee, Calif. Acad. Sci. XII : 11. i6g (1923). 

 lo. teter Bucklon, Mon. Memb. 66 (igo^). 



Brazil, Peru. 



Panama. 



Guiana. 



Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico, 



Panama. 

 Brazil. 



Mexico, Guatemala. 

 United States. 

 Colombia. 

 Lower Calif. 

 Brazil. 



