FAM. MEMBRACID.E 245 



i3. scrpDitarius Buckton, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. IX : 335 (igo5). Africa, Kameroons,Tasmania. 



14. solomonensis Distant, Rhjmch. Notes 41 (1916). Solomon Islands. 

 i5. spicatus Distant, Rhynch. Notes 42 (1916). — Pl. 13, fig. 2 I 3. Queensland. 



16. strigatus Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. X : 1S4 (1868). New Guinea. 



curvicornis Buckton, Mon. Memb. 25i (igoS). 



17. subflavipes Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. X : 189 (1868). East Indies, New Guinea. 



242. GENUS GONDOPHARNES DlSTANT 



Gondopharnes Distant, Rhynch. Xotes 32i (1916). 



Characters : Distant erected this genus for the accommodation of Walker's Centroius piceus 

 chiefly because of the fact that this species showed onlj' three apical cells in the tegmina. No other 

 species has ever been added to the genus and the type species has not been figured or further described. 

 We have not seen the insect and therefore are quoting Distant's original description which is as follows : 



« Pronotum not prominently raised, the lateral processes moderately robust, their apices 

 more or less recurved and subacute, centrally longitudinally carinate, posterior process broad, 

 laterally compressed, tricarinate, sinuous, at base almost toucliing scutellum and impinging on 

 the tegmina, its apex longly narrowed and acute, convexly deflected, and reaching the tegminal 

 apex; tegmina with three large apical cells. A genus to be placed near Otinoides Dist. )i. 



From the above short and not entirely satisfactory description we judge that this genus is very 

 close to Otinotoides and differs from that genus chiefly in the matter of wing venation. 



Type piceus Walker. 



Geographical distribution : The type species from Papua is the only representative of the 

 genus. 



I. piceus Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. X : 187 (1868). Batchian. 



243. Genus CERAON BUCKTON 



Ceraon Buckton, Mon. Memb. 228 (igoS). 

 Daunus (preoccupied) Stal, Analect. Hem. 386 (1866). 

 Zanophara Kirkaldy, Ent. XXXVII : 279 (1904). 



Characters : This genus is characterized particularly by the heavy, rough suprahumerals which 

 are erect or suberect and broadly swollen at the tips and by the posterior process which is shorter than 

 in the other closely related genera. Head triangular, broader than long ; base feebly arcuate and sinuate ; 

 eyeslarge, globular and protruding; ocelli large, conspicuous, equidistant from each other and from the 

 eyes and situated on a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae sloping, sinuate and 

 flaring outward; clypeus broad, trilobed, extending for half its length below inferior margins of gense. 

 Pronotum convex, gibbous, bearing long, heavy, rough suprahumerals and a short sinuate posterior 

 process ; metopidium vertical, about as broad as high ; median carina strongly percurrent ; humeral angles 

 large, triangular and blunt; suprahumeral horns long, heavy, rough, close together at the base, extending 

 almost directly upward and very little outward, usually multicarinate, tips swollen and generally 



