Homopterous famihj Merabracida?. 359 



HKNICONOTUS, Stol. 

 

 1. Hemconotus horndns. 



'^ Memhracis horrida, Fabr., Eat. Syst. iv, p. 12, 18 (1794). 

 ^^ Ileteronotiifi fn.scns, Ds Laporte, Ann. Eut. i, p. 98, 6 (1832). 



Combophora bulllfera, Burm., Silb. Revue Eut. i, p. 229, 4 

 (1833), 



Heteronotu!^ crcisii.'^, Walker, List Homopt. ii, p. 593, 5 

 (1851). 



Para (Wallace). Walker's Type, Brit. Mus. 



2. Jlfn/'conotiif! a'Ahiop'<, u. sp. PI. VII, f. 7. 



Blackish piceous, shining ; head with the anterior margins 

 and a central stripe yellow ; anterior portion of the prouotum 

 armed with two long slender oblique divergent spines, each 

 surrounded at the base by a yellow annulus, the margins, and 

 a U shaped line in front yellow ; a yelloAV trigonate lateral spot 

 on each side of the constriction in front of the first node, the 

 latter obtusely obconical and quite black ; second and terminal 

 node obtusely conical trispinose, the lateral spines being long, 

 slender and tipped with yellow, the third spine emitted fi-om 

 below (in a curved oblique position slanting outwards), still 

 longer than the lateral spines and also tipped Avith yellow ; 

 tegmina pale yellowish hyaline, with the apical area burnt-sieuna 

 brown, base black, veins piceous ; legs piceous, the hind femora 

 tipped with yellow ; abdomen yellow, with the exception of 

 the sexual organs, venter grey, spotted with yellow. Length 

 including tegmina 12^ mm. 



Ecuador (Buckley). Type Brit. Mus. 



Readily distinguished from the preceding by the proximity of 

 the nodes to each other, the small size of the terminal one and 



the great length of its spines. 





 3. Ileniconotus hdlirjei; v.. sp. PI. VII, f. 13. 



Testaceous ; pronotum black, becoming piceous in front, the 

 anterior portion armed with tAvo long slender divergent curved 

 spines, lateral borders and tAvo arched stripes, Avhich unite in 

 front, yelloAV ; first node only separable l:)y a slight depression 

 and its more intensely black hue from the anterior portion ; 

 terminal node separated by j)cduncle from the first, extremely 

 small but armed Avith three unusually long slender yelloAv-tipped 

 spines, the tAvo upper ones projecting upAvards and outAvards at 



