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tips of teginina. Tegmina hyaline or smoky-hyaline, almost entirely free, with five apical and one 

 discoidal cell and a very wide apical limbus. Legs simple; hind tarsi longest. 



Type centralis Germar. 



Geographical distribution : Sixty species have been assigned, at one time or another, to 

 this genus, but all have been removed and placed in other genera except three. Of these, the type 

 species is found in Mexico and the other two in the United States and Canada. 



1. camelus Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. 10, 18 (i8o3). — Pl. 6, fig. 6 I . Canada, United States. 



vittala Amyot and Serville, Hemip. 539 (1843). 



zimmermanni Pairmaire, Rev. Memb. 3o8 (1846). 



guttata Fitch, Cat Ins. N. Y. 49 (i85i). 



bttula Goding, Can. Ent. XXV : 196 (1893). 



viridis Goding, Cat. Memb. N. A. 426 (1894). 



comprissa Buckton, Mon. Memb. 191 (igoS). 



silvtstrii Matausch, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XVIII : 172 (1910). 



2. centralis Germar, Mag. Ent. IV : 22. 20 (1821). Mexico. 



3. fasciata Amyot and Serville, Hemip. 5Zg. 2 (1843). United States. 



74. GENUS ADIPPE Stal 



Adippe Stal, Bid. Hem. Syst. 555 (1867). 



Characters : Medium sized insects with moderately elevated and compressed pronotum and 

 with the tegmina about half covered by the pronotum. Often rather gaudily decorated. Head trian- 

 gular; base sinuate; eyes large and ovate; ocelli conspicuous, farther from each other than from the 

 eyes and situated about on a line drawn through centers of eyes ; clypeus extending for half its length 

 below inferior margins of genas and continuing the line made by these margins. Pronotum laterally 

 compressed, elevated, highest at about the middle, tectiform; median carina strong and percurrent biit 

 no strong lateral ridges ; posterior apex of pronotum just about reaching tips of tegmina. Tegmina 

 hyaline, about half exposed, three prominent longitudinal veins extending nearly parallel through basal 

 half of corium ; five apical and no discoidal cells ; apicalHmbus broad. Legssimple; hind tarsi longest. 



Type alliacea Germar. 



Geographical distrlbution ; This genus is founJ most commonly in Central America and 

 the West Indies with a few species recorded fiom Mexico and South America. 



1. alliacea Germar, Rev. Silb. III : 249. 7 (i835). Brazil. 



2. concinna Fowler, B. C. A. II: i35. 5 (1895). Panama. 



3. grisea Fowler, B. C. A. II : i36. 8(1895). Panama. 



4. hterelica (nom. nov.) Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 694 (igoo). Nicaragua, Panama. 



maculata (preoccupied) Fowler, B. C. A. II : 134. 2 (1894). 



5. histrio Walker, Ins. Saund. 71 (i858). Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, 



ocellata Buckton, Mon. Memb. 188 (1903). Ecuador. 



fiisciula Buckton, Mon. Memb. 189 (i9o3). 



6. iiiaqualis Fowler, B. C. A. II : i35. 6 (1896). Panama, Trinidad. 



7. maculata Distant, Ent. Month. Mag. XLV : 11 (1879 ) Costa Rica. 



8. nigrorubra Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 32 (1922). Costa Rica. 



9. pardaliiia Fowler, B. C A. II : 1^4. 3(1896). Panama. 

 10. quadrivittata Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 234. 3 (1869). Unknown. 



