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HOMOPTERA 



usually of some biilliancy. The tegmina are very largely covered by the pronotum, the apical limbus 

 is broad and the venation is usually indistinct. The head is triangular and usually smooth; eyes small 

 and globose ; base straight or vveakly sinuate; ocelli twice as far from each other as from the eyes and 

 situated about on a line diawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genas straight ; clypeus e.xtend- 

 ing for half its length beiow inferior margins of genae. Pronotum usually more or less flattened, almost 

 completely covering the thorax, abdomen and tegmina, and entirely without horns, spines or other pro- 

 tuberances; metopidium sloping; median carina obsolete or onlyfaintly percurrent; scutellum concealed; 

 no definite posterior process, the posterior end of the pronotum gradually rounded and blunt. Tegmina 

 largely concealed by the overhanging sides of the pronotum, generally less than one-third exposed; 

 venation very faint; apical limbus broad. Legs simple; hind tarsi much longer than the others. 



Type albimacula Germar. 



Geographical distpibution : A very large neotropical genus with a wide distribution over 

 South and Central America but with by far the largest number reported from Brazil. The forty-nine 

 species here hsted probably represent only a small proportion of those which have actually been taken, 

 and a very small percentage of those which actuall}' exist. 



1. anea Perty, Del. Anim. 179 (1834). Brazil. 



2. albifascia Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 16 (1922). Bohvia. 



3. albimacula Germar, Mag. Ent IV : 14. 6(1821). Brazil. 



4. annulata Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. 27. 5 (i8o3). Brazii. 



5. bajulns Germar, Rev. Silb. III : 309 (i835). Brazil. 



6 bicolor Goding, Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc. XXIII : 142 (1928). Ecuador. 



7. bilinea Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. i52 (i858). Brazil, 



8. biparlita Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 487. 13(1846). Brazil, 



9. bitriaiignlata Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXXVIII : 4. 414 Brazil, 



(.930). 



10. brunneimaculata F"unkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 18 Bolivia. 



(1922). — Pl. 5,fig. 58. 



11. buchtoni {nom. nov.) Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. Brazil. 



21 (1922). 



nilida (preoccupied) Buckton, Mon. Memb. i56 (i903). 



12. bugahensis Fowler, B. C. A. II : 85. 2 (1895). Panama, 



i3. cimicoidts Fabricius, Coquebert 111. Ic : Pl. 18, fig. 6 (1801). Brazil. 



melanostigma Perty, Del. Anim. 179 (i83o). 

 bifacies Walker, List Hom. B. M Suppl. i5o (i858). 



14. coccinella Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 486.9 (1846). Brazil. 



i5. cyanea Burnieister, Rev. Silb. IV : 189. g (i836). Brazil. 



16. decorata Funkhouser, Can. Ent. XLVI : 406 (1914). Bolivia. 



17. dimidiala Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 287. 12 (1846). Brazil. 



18. discrepaiis Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. i5o (i858). Brazil. 



19. rfoAm/ Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 487. 10(1846). Brazil. 



20. fasciata Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 21 (1922). Brazil. 



21. fenestrata Walker. List Hom. B. M Suppl. i5i (i858). Brazil. 



22. frontalis Fairmaire, Rev. Memb 489. 16 (1846). Brazil. 



23. fulvovaria F-airmaire, Rev. Memb. 488. i5 (1846). Brazil. 



