286 HOMOPTERA 



geniE sinuate and produced; clypeus longer than wide, strongly trilobed, extending for tvvo-thirds its 

 length below inferior margins of gense, tip trilobed and pilose. Pronotum with a swollen, bulbous 

 anterior elevation and an elevated, plate-like posterior process; metopidium convex, much higher than 

 wide; median carina irregularly percurrent; humeral angles heavy, subconical and blunt; anterior 

 pronotal process rising as a column above the head and spreading out at the tip to form a swolien 

 transverse expansion, this expansion roughly trilobed, the central lobe more or less globular, the lateral 

 lobes projecting outward to form heavy, swollen, nodular horns with ends suddenly acute; posterior 

 process elevated to form a high, laterally compressed plate which is roughly triangular in shape, the 

 anterior margin concave. the posterior margin twice as long as the anterior and convex, the dorsai point 

 sharp and almost reaching the posterior margin of the middle lobe of the anterior process, caudal tip 

 extending beyond internal angles of tegmina; scutellum entirely concealed by the pronotum ; sides of 

 lateral anterior processand of the posterior process bearing reticulated raised carinae; lower margins of 

 mesothorax and metathorax extended to form rough tooth-hke projections. Tegmina narrow, largely 

 coriaceous and ahnost entirely opaque; basal and costal areas leathery and punctate; venation very 

 irregular but showing five apical and four or five discoidal cells; tip diagonally truncate, apices pointed ; 

 apical Hmbus narrow. Hind wings with four apical cells. Legs moderately foliaceous and flattened, 

 densely and finely spined: hind tarsi longest. 



Type tiawaneiisis Schumacher. 



Geographical distribution : This is an oriental genus represented by only two species, one 

 from Formosa and the other from tlie Philippines. 



1. mirahilis Funkhouser, Phil. Journ. Sci.XVIH : 6. 680 (1921). Philippines, Mindanao. Sur- 



— Pl. I4,fig. 252. igao. 



2. ^/flw«»««si5 Schumacher, Sant. Form. ii5 (1915). Formosa. 



285. genus takliwa funkhouser 



Takiiwa Funkhouser, Journ. X. Y. Ent. Soc. XLIII : 4. 480 (i^SS). 



Characters : A single specimen in the collection of the Imperial Institute in London furnished 

 the type for this curious monotypic genus. It is characterized by the swoUen, laterally flattened fol- 

 iaceous pronotum which suggests the South American genus Lycoderes, and by the entirely exposed 

 scutellum. Head subquadrate. wider than long; base strongly arcuate; eyes small but extending 

 outward half as far as the humeral angles; ocelli large, conspicuous, equidistant from each other and 

 from the eves and situated well above a line drawn through centers of eyes ; inferior margins of gena; 

 foliaceous and lobate; clypeus extending for half its length below inferior margins of genas, tip pointed. 

 Pronotum highly arched, swoUen, foliaceous, laterally flattened, roughly sculptured and with stout 

 suprahumerals; metopidium convex, slightly sloping, about as wide as high; median carina strongly 

 percurrent; humeral angles large, triangular and blunt; suprahumeral horns large, swollen, twice as 

 long as thedistance between their bases, extending outward with the tips curved downward, somewhat 

 compressed dorso-ventrally, tips blunt; posterior process rising from behind horns, very tliick and heavy 

 at base, rising in a high arch over the scutellum, then curving downward to touch tegmina, then sinuate 

 with tip depressed and extending almost to tips of tegmina; scutellum entirely exposed, subtriangular, 

 swollen, about as long as wide; sides of pronotum rough. Tegmina broad, semiopaque; base narrowly 

 coriaceous and punctate; veins indistinct ; fiveapicaland four discoidal cells; tip pointed; apical limbus 



