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Genus llHAriiioi'HOUA. 



Nematophora, Scliaiiin, in ]']rscli und Grub. Eiic. p. 07 (ISoO), uoin. 



proencc. 

 Ii/i(i/>/ii()j)hora, Scliaum, Arcli. f. Naturg. xxvii. (2) p. 208 (1851), 



n. iiom. 

 Simotettix, St&l, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1853, p. 204. 



Ty[)e, R. vitrea, SclKiuin [Nematophora). 



Taosa, gen. nov. 



Head not produced in front, rotundately Iruticatc a little in 

 front of eyes, front slightly broader at apex than at ba.se, 

 lateral margins subparallel ; face moderately broad, ampliated 

 on each side before clypeus, obscurely tricariiiate, the central 

 carination distinct; clypeus strongly centrally carinate; pro- 

 notum only about half the length of front of head, centrally 

 carinate ; mesonotuni more than three times longer than pro- 

 notum, tricarinatc; tcgniina three times as long as broad, 

 slightly ampliated towards apex, apical third with three 

 series of transverse veins defining more or less clearly three 

 series of cellular areas; wings broader than tegmina, with 

 some apical marginal transverse and forked veins ; posterior 

 tibia3 with four spines, one being at extreme base. 



Type, T. suturah'sy Germ, (^t lata). 



Taosa suturalis. 



Flata suturalis, Germ, in Thon, Ent. Arch. ii. 2, p. 48 (1830). 

 Nersia suturalis, Stal, Ivio Jan. Hem. ii. p. Go (1858). 

 Dictyophara suturalis, Berg, An. Soc. Cieut. Argent, xvii. p. 114 (1884). 

 Cladodiptera muliebris. Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 76 (1858). 



Hub Brazil. 



Eemosa, gen. nov. 



Head loiigly produced in front of eyes, cephalic process at 

 base, gradually but much narrowed on apical half, strongly 

 centrally carinate, the lateral areas oblique, the lateral margins 

 carinate; face long, narrowed in front of eyes, margins sub- 

 parallel from anterior margins of eyes to a little before clypeus, 

 where they are inwardly oblique, strongly centrally carinate j 

 clvpeus centrally carinate ; pronotum about as long as eyes, 

 tncarinate ; mesonotum about twice as long as pronotuu), 

 tricarinate ; tegmina abont two and a half times as long as 

 broad, subopaque, minutely tuberculate, costal area broad, 

 apical area finely and closely reticulate and inwardly defined 

 by an almost straigltt series of transverse veins ; wings 



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