FAM. MEMBRACID^ m 



from the central and western parts of the United States, specifically from Illinois, Kansas, Colorado 

 and California 



1. modesta Goding, Cat. Memb. N. A. 420. 74 (1894). United States. 



2. pukhella Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XVI : 181 (igoS). — Pl. 6, United States. 



flg. 64. 



brevis Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XVI : 181 (igoS). 



3. rileyi Goding, Ent. News III : 108 (1892). United States. 



coquilUtli Goding, Cat. Memb. N. A. 420. 75 (1894). 

 pulchra Goding, Ent. News III : i. 109 (1892). 



77. Genus ANTIANTHE FOWLER 



Antianthe Fowler, B. C. A. II : 137 (iSgS). 

 Janthe (preoccupied) Stal, Bid. Hem. Syst. 554 (1867). 

 Agondas Kirkaldy, Ent. XXXV : 3i6 (1902). 



Characters : Large green insects with high flattened pronotum, long humeral angles, and 

 partly covered hyaline tegmina. Head subquadrate, triangular in front; base strongly sinuate; eyes 

 ovate; ocelH prominent, nearer to each other than to the eyes and situated aboiit on a hne drawn 

 through centers of eyes ; inferior margins of genae straight ; clypeus blunt and extending for one-third 

 its iength below the inferior margins of genas, continuing the line of these margins. Pronotum highly 

 elevated in a flattened crest, highest in front and gradually sloping to the posterior apex; metopidium 

 straight, triangular; humeral angles produced into long flattened horns; median carina strongly per- 

 current; sides of pronotum roughlj' punctate but without ridges. Tegmina hyaline; about half 

 covered by the sides of the pronotum; three longitudinal veins arising from the base, the inner two 

 joined near the center by a transverse vein; five apical and two discoidal cells; apical limbus broad ; 

 apices of tegmina just about reaching the posterior process of the pronotum. Legs simple and cyhn- 

 drical ; all tarsi about equal in length. 



Type expansa Germar. 



Geographical distribution : This is a Central Ameiican genus which has spread northward 

 into Me.xico and the United States and southward into northern South America. 



1. i!.a;/fl«sa Germar, Rev. Silb. III : 246. i (i835). — Pl. 6, fig. 65. Mexico, Yucatan, Honduras, 



cucullata Biirmeister, Handb. Ent. II : 140. 4 (i835). Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cos- 



ta Rica, Panama, Colom- 

 bia, Porto Rico, United 

 States. 



2. foliacea Stal, Hem. Mex. 71. 433 (1864). Mexico, Guatemala, Costa 



Rica, Brazil. 



3. humilis Fowler, B. C. A. II : i38 (i8g5). Mexico, Yucatan. 



4. reversa Walker, Ins. Saund. 72 (i858). Mexico, Guatemala. 



5. viridissima Walker, List Ilom. B. M. Suppl. i3S (i858). Mexico, Co!ombia,Venezuela. 



78. Genus XANTHOLOBUS Van Duzee 



Xantholobus Van Duzee, Stud. N. \. Memb. 78. gS (igo8). 



Characters : \ genus split off of Cyrtolobus on the character of the svvoUen posterior part of the 



