122 HOMOPTERA 



i3. pulchdla Funkhouser, Can. Ent. XLVI : 403. 7 (1914). Peru. 



14. rufipts Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 3oi. i (1846). Colombia. 



i5. rufiventris Germar, Mag. Ent. IV : 14. 8 (1821). Brazil. 



altifrons Walker, List Hom. B. M. 553. 19 (i85i). 



16. rufomaculata Fallou, Rev. Ent. IX : 353 (1890) Ecuador. 



17. signata Germar, Mag. Ent. IV : i5. 9 (1821). Brazil. 



91. Genus HERANICE Stal 



Heranice St&l, Bid. Hem. Syst. 55^ (1867). 



Characters : Large, brightly colored insects with the convex pronotuni gradually arcuate and 

 suggesting the bottom of an inverted boat, without horns or other processes and with the tegmina about 

 half exposed. Head triangular, roughly sculptured; base arcuate and strongly sinuate; eyes ovate and 

 protruding; ocelli very large, prominent, equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated 

 about on a line dravvn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae roundly curved; clypeus with a 

 distinct central ridge, extending for half its length below inferior margins of genag. Pronotum convex, 

 moderately elevated, gradually keeled, highest in the middle; metopidium convex, twice as broad as 

 high; humeral angles strongly produced into heavy, blunt, triangular lobes, extending laterad as far as 

 half the width of the head; median carina strongly percurrent; sides of pronotum with many prominent 

 longitudinal ridges; posterior apex of pronotum heavy, acute, just reaching the tips of the tegmina. 

 Tegmina about half covered by the overhanging sides of the pronotum ; basal half strongly punctate, 

 apical half hyalinc or clouded; five apical and two discoidal cells; median apical cell triangular and 

 petiolate; apical limbus broad. Legs simple, cylindrical, heavy; hind tarsi much longer than either of 

 the other two pairs. 



Type miltoglypta Fairmaire. 



Geographical distribution : The only two species thus far described are from South America. 



1. miltoglypta Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 3o6. 2(1846). — Pl. 6,fig. 79. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. 



2. planefiava Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 3o6. 3 (1846). Brazil. 



92. Genus MATURNA STAL 



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



Characters : Closely related to the preceding genus but immediately distinguished by the 

 much smaller size of the insects, their inconspicuous coiors, and particulariy by the single discoidal cell 

 of the corium. Stal, in differentiating these genera, calls attention, also to the facts that in Maturna it is 

 more compressed and is slightly siniiate before the middle. and that the humeral angles are less strongly 

 produced than in Herauice. AU of the above are good, constant chaiacteis and in our opinion are entire- 

 ly sufficient to validify the genus. In addition it may be noted that in Maturna the head is much more 

 pointed and produced downward ; the ridges on the sides of the pionotiim are much farther apart; the 

 posterior apex of the pronotum is usually depressed; and the basal area of the tegmina more heavil}' 

 punctate and coriaceous than in Heranice. The other characters are aboiit the same for the two genera. 



Type ephippigera Fairmaire. 



