Homopteroub- family Membracid^B. 357 



Dr. Stal has mistaken tlie succeeding species (as did Walker), 

 for the insect described by Fairmaire, but it is clear from the 

 original description that the main body of thejironotum was not 

 regarded as a node by the French author ; H. quadrinndosiis 

 -is described as shining brown-black, with the first tAVO nodes 

 nearly equal and the strong ventral spine emitted from the third 

 smaller node, whereas the quadrinodosus of Walker is black, 

 with only three true nodes and the spines emitted from the third 

 or largest and terminal node. 



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 2. Heteronofus tiinodosus. n. sp. PI. VII, f. 8. 



Ileteronotus quadrinodosus, Walker, (nee Fairm.)List Ilomopt. 

 ii, p. 592, 1 (LS51). 



Black, shining, hairy, strongly punctured ; pronotum trinodose, 

 the anterior portion or main body of the pronotum armed with 

 two central horizontal transverse blackish spines, with castaneous 

 nndersurface ; a central longitudinal carina, partly coloured 

 with pale yellow ; margins pale yellow ; nodes with a central 

 carina, the first compressed in front, and with an abbreviated 

 transverse yellow line on each side, the second node orbicular, 

 smaller than the first, the third oval, largest of the three, Avith a 

 })ale yellow line on each side in front ; two small terminal 

 conical castaneous denticles, a strong oblique hairy castaneous 

 sjjine emitted from the base of the node below ; tegmina pale 

 yellowish-testaceous hyaline with castaneous A'eins ; legs castane- 

 ous ; body Avhity-brown. Length 12 mm. 



Mexico (Schuckard). Type Brit. Mus. 







3. Hcteronotus hicornis. 



Ranatra hkornis, Lesson, 111. Zool. pi. 57, fig. 1 (LS32). 



Coiiibojjhora vuineraus, Burm., 8ilb. Eevue Eut. i, p. 22S, 2 

 a833). 



Heteronotus stipatus, Walker, List Homopt. Suppl. p. 155 

 (1858). 



Brazil (Miers) ; Constancia (H. Clark, &c.). Walker's type 

 Brit. Mus. 



, 4. Hcteronotus abhreviutus. 



Heteronotus abhreviatus, Fairm., Ann. Ent. Ser. 2, iv, p. 500, 

 5; pL 7, fig. 2G (LS4G). 

 Brazil. Brit. Mus. 



