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HOMOPTERA 



nearly equal in size, the inner more elongate; apical liinbus broad. Legs simple, slender, pilose; poster- 

 ior tibiae roughly serrate; hind tarsi longest. 



Type punctatus Metcalf and Bruner. 



Geographical distribution : Another West Indian genus with species known only from Cuba. 



1. hirsutus Metcalf and Bruner, Memb. Cuba2i3 (1925). Cuba. 



2. punctatus Metcalf and Bruner, Memb. Cuba 212 (1925). — Pl. 10, Cuba. 



fig. I 68. 



183. GENUS MONOBELUS STAL 



Monobelus Stal, Analect. Hem. 368 (1866). 

 Delauneya Lethierry, Ann. Ent. Soc. Belg. XXV : 17 (1881). 

 Gibbomoppha Buckton, Mon. Memb. 192 (1903). 



Charactars : Small to medium-sized insects with robust, compact bodies, no suprahumerals, 

 long, heavy posterior process reaching as far as the end of the abdomen, and entirely free tegmina with 

 three discoidal cells. Head subquadrate, twice as broad as high; base feebly arcuate ; eyes globular; 

 ocelli large, conspicuous, equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated above a hne drawn 

 through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae sloping downward, nearly straight; clypeus extending 

 for one-third its length below inferior margins of genae, tip narrowly rounded. Pronotum broad, convex, 

 smooth, without suprahumerals ; metopidium sloping, much broader than high; median carina obsolete ; 

 humeral angles broad andblunt; posterior process long, heavy, sharp, nearly straight, extending beyond 

 the internal angles of the tegmina and reaching as far or farther than the end of the abdomen; scutellum 

 broadly exposed on each side, base usually tomentose. Tegmina extirely exposed; hyahne; base nar- 

 rowly coriaceous and punctate ; five apical and three discoidal cells ; apical limbus broad. Legssimple, 

 slender; hind tarsi longest. 



Type/asciatus Fabricius. 



Geographicai distribution i This West Indian genus has the widestdistribution of any mem- 

 bracid genus in the Islands. It has never been reported from any other region. 



1. fasciatus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. 5i5. 33 (1798). — Pl. 10, Porto Rico, Cuba, Haiti. 



fig. 159. 



degteri Coquebert, 111. Icon Ins. I : 35 (1799). 

 2-guttatus Fabricius, Syst Rhyng. 21. 27 (i8o3). 

 parvula Buckton, Mon Memb. 192 (igoS). 



2. flavidus Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. Sig. 34 (1846). Cuba, Haiti. 



semicrema Baker, Can. Ent. XXXIX : 16 (1907). 



3. irroratus Metcalf and Bruner. Memb. Cuba 211 (1925). Cuba. 



4. lateralis Stkl, Hem. Fabr. II : 5o. 5 (1869). Cuba. 



5. nasutus Stal, Hem. Fabr. II : 5o. 2 (1869). Guadeloupe,Cuba,PortoRico. 



fasciata Lethierry, Ann. Ent. Soc. Belg. XXV : 17 (1881). 

 aurea Buckton, Mon. Memb. 193 (igoS). 



6. niger Metcalf and Bruner, Memb. Cuba 210 (1925). Cuba. 



7. obtusiceps Stal, Hem. Fabr. 11 : 5o. 3 (1869). PortoRico,Haiti,Guadeloupe. 



8. turquinensis Metcalf and Bruner, Memb. Cuba 210 (1925). Cuba. 



