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132. Genus MENDICEA GODING 



Mendicea Goding, Journ N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXXIV : 279 (1926). 



Characters : Another genus erected by Goding to accommodate a single Ecuadorian species. 

 It is apparentl^' very close to the preceding genus, differing chiefly in the fact that the longitudinal veins 

 of the corium do not coalesce near the middle of the tegmina. The type species is the only one in the 

 genus. We have not seen this species and while Goding, following his usual custom, does not irgure 

 the insect, so that we are unable to provide a Plate Figure for Mendicea, his description is quite full 

 and should be sufficient for the recognition of the genus. The original description is as follows : 



« Head triangular, twice broader between the eyes than long, flat, strongly reclined tovi^ai d 

 apex which is obtusely angulate, base straight; eyes rather small ; ocelH shghtly nearer eyes; base 

 of vertex briefly trisulcate, median sulcus the longer. 



» Pronotum convex, depressed anteriorly; base of metopidium strongly depressed and 

 almost horizontal, then suddenly sloping upward and backward to summit, its base witha short, 

 horizontal carina each side in front of a shortsulcus; median carina percurrent, strong especially 

 posteriorly, and several (six in type) smooth lateral carinae extending from near base to apex, 

 between them stronglj' and distinctly punctured; humerals barely evident, but acute; posterior 

 process convex, a transverse depression at base which extends to lateral margins, thereafter arcu- 

 ate and very lightly elevated at middle, posterior half tectiform, seen from above strongly sinuate 

 at base, then lightly dilated and gradually acuminate to the acute apex which is as long as tegmina. 



» Tegmina ahnost completely covered by sides of pronotum, colorless vitreous ; corium 

 emitting two longitudinal veins from base, contiguous but not united for half their length, distant 

 from costa the space between coriaceous, opaque and punctured, radial vein forked at middle 

 enclosing the small only discoidal cell, ulnar vein simple not forked, fourth apical cell and inte- 

 rior basal cell with clavus occupying three-fourths of width of tegmina; one discoidal and four 

 apical cells, free apical margin rather broad; wings with three apical cells, second cell sessile 

 base truncate. 



» Legs slender, with three or four spines in exterior angle, tarsi equal. n 



Type scaphoidea Goding. 



Geographical distribution : The single species from Ecuador is the only representative of 

 the genus. 



I. scaphoidea Goding, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXXIV : 279 (1926). Ecuador. 



133. genus aphetea fowler 



Aphetea Fowler, B. C. A. II : 95 (iS^S). 



Characters : A genus of small, inconspicuous insects with low, rounded pronotum which 

 covers about half of the tegmina and a tectiform posterior process just about equalhng in length the 

 tegmina. Head subquadrate, twice as wide as high; base weakly sinuate; eyes small and ovate ; ocelli 

 very small, inconspicuous, about equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated on a line 

 drawn through centers of eyes ; inferior niargins of genae strongly sinuate; clypeus much deflexed, 

 extending for half its length below inferior margins of genae. Pronotum convex, highest behind middle ; 

 dorsum rounded, usually depressed before middle ; metopidium sloping, wider than high ; median carina 

 percurrent; humeral angles small and rounded; sides of pronotum punctate but not carinate, hollowed 



