igS 



HOMOPTERA 



gense. Pronotum convex with strong suprahumerals ; metopidium nearly vertical, about as broad as 

 high; median carina percurrent; humeral angles heavy, triangular, blunt; suprahumeral horns strong, 

 triquerate, as long or longer than the distance between their bases, extending outward and upward, tips 

 sharp; posterior process high above the scutellum, curved at base and then nearly straight to apex which 

 reaches beyond the internal angles of the tegmina; scutellum entirely exposed, subhyaline; base 

 narrowly coriaceous and punctate ; veins somewhat indistinct; five apical and two discoidal cells; 

 apical limbus well developed. Legs simple; hind tarsi longest. 



Type brunnipennis Germar. 



Geographical distpibution : This isdistinctly an African genus with species widely distributed 

 on that continent. 



1. angttlatus Pelaez, Memb. ^''ernando Po 55 (igSS). 



2. brunnipennis Germar, Rev. Silb. III : 2^7. 4 (i835). 



Cameroons. 



Natal, Cape of Good Hope, 



Transvaal, 

 Congo Free State, Nyanza. 

 Biafra. 



3. curvispina Distant, Rhynch. Notes 322 (1916). 



4. guineensis Pelaez, Memb. Fernando Po 55 (1^35). 



5. pubipennis Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 5ii. 7 (1846). — Pl. I 0, fig, I 62. Cape of Good Hope, Trans 



vaal. 



6. »"«^05« Funkhouser, Ann. Mus. Acad. U.S.S.R. XXVIII : 149(1927). Bugombe. 



188. GENUS CENTROTUSOIDES DISTANT 



Centrotusoides Distant, Rhynch. Notes 3o (1916). 



Characters : Heavy-bodied insects, closely related to those of the preceding genus but differing 

 in having the basal curve of the posterior process farther caudad and in having at least four discoidal 

 cells in the tegmina. Head subquadrate, wider than high; base highly arcuate; eyes ovate; ocelli 

 prominent, equidistant from each other and from the ej^es and situated on a line drawn through centers 

 of eyes ; inferior margins of gens rounded; clypeus trilobed, extending for two-thirds its length below 

 inferior margins of genae. Pronotum convex with short, stout suprahumerals ; metopidium nearly 

 vertical, broader than high; median carina strongly percurrent; humeral angles very large and blunt; 

 suprahumeral horns short, swoUen, triquerate, not as long as the distance between their bases, extending 

 outward and slightly upward, tips blunt; posterior process heavy, tectiform, tricarinate, curved above 

 the scutellum, tips sharp and reaching beyond the internal angles of the tegmina; scutellum well exposed 

 on each side, Tegmina subhyaline ; base narrowl}' coriaceous and punctate ; five apical cells and four 

 or more (usually five and sometimes six) discoidal cells arranged in two transverse rows with three in the 

 distal row and one, two ov three in the proximal row; apicallimbus broad. Legs very strong ; tibia: 

 inclined to be flattened; hind tarsi longest. 



Type nniiri Distant. 



Geographical distribution : An African genus with two species both from South Africa. 



1. muiri Distant, Rhynch. Notes 3o (1916). — Pl. I 0, fig. I 63. Natal. 



2. wealei Distant, Rhynch. Notes 3o (1916). Durban. 



