2i6 HOMOPTERA 



rounded. The insects are at once noted because of their size. Head subquadrate, roughly sculptured, 

 about as long as high ; base arcuate and weakly bituberculate, sulcate between the tubercles; eyes 

 somewhat flattened laterally ; ocelli very large, prominent, protruding, four times as far from each other 

 as from tlie eyes and situated close to the outer, upper corners of the head, well above a line drawn 

 through the centers of the eyes ; inferior margins of genae extending downward in long tongues or 

 flattened plates on each side of the clypeus; clypeus long, narrow, extending only slightly below the 

 inferior margins of the genae, tip rounded and pilose. Pronotum extended upward into a single high 

 conical or flattened horn which is branched at the end to form two extensions curved backward and 

 dilated at the tips; metopidium vertical, carinate, higher than broad; median carina strongly percurrent; 

 humeral angles heavy, triangular and blunt; anterior pronotal horn high, bifurcate, flattened laterally 

 and bent backward ; inferior margins of mesonotum bearing large, blunt teeth ; posterior process heavy, 

 tectiform, impinging on tegmina, with a high dorsal node near the apex, tip suddenly sharp and 

 extending well beyond the internal angles of the tegmina but not reaching the end of the abdomen or 

 the tips of the tegmina; scutellum narrowly exposed on each side. Tegmina broad, opaque, mottled! 

 basal and costal areas broadly coriaceous and punctate; veins distinct; venation of apical area inclined 

 to be irregular but usually showing five apical and three discoidal cells; apex rounded or bluntly 

 pointed, not truncate; apical limbus very broad. Legs heavy, simple; femora cylindrical; tibiae 

 triquerate or somewhat flattened ; hind tarsi longest. 



Type enderUini Schmidt. 



Geographical distpibution : This genus is known only from the type species which is found 

 in Borneo. 



I. enderleitti Schmidt, Stet. Ent. Zeit. 372. 67 (1906). — Pl. I I , Borneo. 

 fig. 182. 



208. GenUS HYPSOLYRIUM SCHMIDT 



Hypsolyrium Schmidt, Soc. Ent. XLI : 6 (1926). 



Characters : This genus was erected to accommodate Stars uncinata and has remained monotypic 

 since its original description. We have never seen the type species but from Stirs description and 

 from Distanfs excellent figure (Distant, 1907, p. 12) it would appear to differ from its nearest relatives 

 in having a straight, unbranched anterior pronotal horn and in having very irregular venation in the 

 tegmina. These characters would seem sufftcient to validate the genus and Goding writes (in corres- 

 pondence) that he is convinced that the genus is good. We are therefore recognizing it and noting 

 such generic characters as may be gleaned from published descriptions and figures as foUows : Head 

 subquadrate, wider than high; base arcuate; eyes globular; ocelli large, prominent, farther from each 

 other than from the e^^es and situated above a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of 

 genaj rounded and lobate; clypeus extending for more than half its length below inferior margins of 

 genae. Pronotum extending upward in an erect anterior horn which is not bifurcate and which is not 

 curved backward over the body; metopidium conical, about as high as the width at the base; median 

 carina percurrent; humeral angles small and triangular; anterior pronotal horn erect or leaning slightly 

 forward, flattened laterally, notched at distal posterior margin, not bifurcate at the tip; posterior 

 process heavy, tectiform, elevated into an arcuate dorsal node before the apex, tip sharp and just 

 reaching the internal angles of the tegmina; scutellum narrowly exposed on each side. Tegmina long, 

 narrow, semiopaque ; basal and costal areas broadly coriaceous and punctate; veins distinct; venation, 



