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TIIH ANXALS 



ANU 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOIIY. 



[KRJUTII SI-KIE.S.] 



No. 98. FEBRUARY 1[)U\ 



I X .—Rhynchutul Notes.— h\ 1 1 L By W. L. Distant. 



H O M O P T E R A. 



Farn. Membracidae (continued from vol. xvi. p. 496). 

 Basilides, gen. nov. 



Pronotum with the anterior area stronglygibbous, centrally 

 perpendicularly raised, the apex developed into a transverse 

 curved process on each side^ the posterior process as in 

 A/ic/ion, Buckt. 



The type of this genus is the Centrotus bipennis, Walk., 

 for which that writer has given an unusually complete 

 structural description, which may be used for the generic 

 characters. 



Allied to Beninia, Dist., from which it differs by the 

 ])eculiar structure of the posterior pronotal process, which 

 also separates it from the Australian genus Eutryonia^ 

 Coding. From the latter it is at once 5-eparated by the 

 different structure of both the anterior and posterior pro- 

 notal processes. 



Basilides hipcniiis. 



Cciifrotiig bipeiniis, Walk. List Iloni. ii. p. GOO (18'')1). 

 A icliun fiisciim, Buckt. Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. ('J) vul. ix. p. 334, 

 pi. xxii. li^^. L'rt (lUOG). 



Ildh. W. Africa ; Old Calabar, Camcroons {Escalera, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Ami. ii- ALio. X. lJi.-^t. Ser. S. Vol. wii. 11 



