FAM. MEMBRACID^ 



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12. projeda Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 28 (1922). 

 i3. sabulosa Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 29 (1922). 

 14. simillima Stil, Rio Jan. Hem. II : 3o. 2 (1862). 



i5. Umpla Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 46. 27 (i933). 

 16. vismia Haviland, Zoologica VI : 3. 252 (1925). 



Peru. 



Brazil. 



Brazil, Peru, Colombia.Vene- 

 zuela. 



Utah. 



British Guiana. 



108. GENUS TYNELIA STAL 



Tynelia Stal, Ofv. Vet. Akad. 25o (1868). 



Characters : Small, elongate, narrow-bodied insects distinguished particularly by the extended 

 position of the head. Head projecting obliquely forward, subquadrate, almost as long as broad, 

 smooth ; base sinuate, lowest in middle; eyes large, ovate, protruding; ocelli very conspicuous, equi- 

 distant from each other and from the eyes and situated about on a line drawn through centers of eyes ; 

 inferior margins of genae broadiy rounded; clypeus extending for onethird its length below inferior 

 margins of genae and continuing the broadly rounded apical contour of the face. Pronotum regularly 

 convex, highest in the middle; no suprahumerals; humeral angles blunt, rounded; metopidium sloping, 

 broader than high; median carina faintly percurrent; sides of pronotum destitute of rugse or im- 

 pressions; posterior apex of pronotum heavy, broadly rounded, blunt, reaching just about to the tips of 

 the tegmina. Tegmina about half concealed by the overhanging sides of the pronotum ; usually hyahne ; 

 venation irregular; five apical and three discoidal cells; third apical cell transverse, base rounded and 

 stylate ; first apical cell located on the costal margin considerably in front of the tip; apical limbus 

 broad. Legs simple; hind tarsi longest. 



Type longula Burmeister. 



Geographical distribution : The genus is at present limited to South and Central America 

 with the foUowing species : 



1. hrunnea Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 26 (1922). 



Pl. 7,fig. 94. 



2. cinctata Haviland, Zoologica VI : 3. 249 (1925). 



3. glohosa Haviland, Zoologica VI : 3 25o (1925). 



4. hirsuta Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 25 (1922). 



5. longula Burmeister, Handb. Ent. II : i. 143. i (i835). 



6. nitida Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX : i. 25 (1922). 



7. prominens Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. i5i (i858). 



8. pubescens Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. 29. 10 (i8o3). 



9. tumulata Buckton, Mon. Memb. Pl. 3^. Footnote (igoS). 



Brazil. 



British Guiana. 



British Guiana. 



Peru. 



Brazil. 



Peru. 



Brazil, Panama. 



Brazil, Colombia. 



Unknown. 



109. GENUS BOETHOOS Kirkaldy 



Boethoos (nom. nov.) Kirkaldy, Ent. XXXVII : 279 (1904). 

 Parmula (preoccupied) Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 491 (1846). 



Characters : Closely related to the preceding genus but with the head straight and perpen- 

 dicular to the bodv and with the dorsum usually more or less sinuate in the middle. Head subtrian- 



