FAM. MEMBRACID^ 171 



7. pundata Metcalf and Bruner, Memb. Cuba 2i3 (1925). Cuba. 



8. semipellucida Stal, Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh. XXIV : 249 (i858). Brazil. 



smilucida (error) Goding, Amer. Mus. Novit. i (igSo). 



9. sciitaia Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. II : 36. i (i858). Brazil. 



femoralis Stal, Rio Jan. Hera. II : 37. 2 (i858). 



10. walkeri {nom.nov .) Goding, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer.XXIV : ^35 (ig^i). Brazil. 



fasciatus (preoccupied) Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. i6i (i858). 



GENERA OF THE TRIBE ACUMINATINI GODING 



I. Venation of tegmina irregular and reticulate 



A. Dorstim straight ; tibia slightly dilated Postanomus nom. nov. 



B. Dorsum sinuate; tibia simple 



1 . Posterior process with two or three nodes ; unanned above humeral angles. Centrodontus Goding. 



2. Posterior process with a single arcuate elevation ; females with suprahum- 



eral horns Tylocentrus Van Duzee. 



11. Venation of tegmina normal 



A. Posterior process close to scutellum 



1. Corium with five apical cells 



a. Tibia dilated; corium with one discoidal cell 

 b, Pronotum gibhous and convex 



c. No suprahumerals Lirania Stal. 



cc. Suprahumerals present Flexocentrus Goding. 



bb. Pronotum elevated and compressed 



c. Pronotuni alarge reticulated, inflated sac CEda Amyot and Serville. 



cc. Pronotum not an iiiflated vesicle 



d. Pronotum elevated anteriorly into a bilobed or dilated 



process Lycoderes Gerinar. 



dd. Pronotum leaflike Stegaspis Germar. 



aa. Tibia simple; corium with two or more discoidal cells 



b. Corium with two discoidal cells; tegmina hyaline Glischrocentrus Fowler. 



bb. Corium with three discoidal cells; tegmina semi-opaque 



c. Posterior process very slender ; shorter than the abdomen . . Microcentrus Stal. 

 cc. Posterior process robust; as long asthe abdomen Centruchoides Fowler. 



2. Corium with four apical cells 



a. Pronotum bearing elevated globular spines Bocydium Latreille. 



aa. Pronotal process not bearing inflated globules Styi.ocentrus Stal. 



B. Posterior process high above scutellum. 



i. Posterior process trispinose Smerdalea Fowler. 



2. Posterior process with ioothed elevated node Dontonodus Funkhouser. 



Note ; Goding placed his genus Euw.illieria in this tribe Init that genus belongs in the family iEihalionidse. 

 Likewise the genus Acanthicus Laporte has been included in this group, but this genus cannot sland since it was erected on 

 immature forms. 



