64 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



transverse medially narrowed band, and followed by another one near 

 the apex, the second band with the posterior margin deeply concave, 

 neither of them extending to the sutural and lateral margins ; under 

 side and legs black. 



Of this species I have only a sinde female specimen before 

 me, but the strong punctuation of the fe^tra differs so much from 

 any of its allies that it cannot be mistaken for any other species. 

 Cli/thm notata, Klug, resembles the present insect greatly, but is 

 of larger size; the head is differently coloured, the thorax of 

 different shape and markings, and the elytral bands likewise 

 differ, as well as the sculpture. 



(To be continued.) 



ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE 

 AUCHENOERHYNCHOUS HOMOPTERA. 



By Dr. H. J. Hansen. \ ^ q ^ V> - 

 (Continued from p. 44.) 



^ ' The posterior tibiae in a more typical Jassine — for example, a 

 ' ^Tettigonia or^Idiocerus — are, as is well known, quadricarinate, 

 and also more or less conspicuously compressed (or at least never 

 depressed), so that the posterior* surface is narrower than the 

 surfaces on both sides, and, in every case, than the anterior 

 surface ; moreover, at least, the two margins which limit the 

 posterior surface are endowed with several or many jspines. A 

 similar structure is found in the fine Australian genus Eurymela, 

 Hoffmansegg, which in consequence of its entire structure may 

 well stay in the neighbourhood of the Bythoscopine group. The 

 germs Paropia, Germ., which is rajj^ged by Sahlberg as a some- 

 what aberrant group even heyoimUlopa, by Kirschbaum and 

 Fieber as; representing a peculiar family, seems to me to be a 

 very goodVassine in the structure of posterior tibiae, the cheeks, 

 antennae, &c. ; to lay great stress on excavations on the frons 

 and vertex appears to me extremely absurd. Paropia ought, it 

 seems to me, to stand, Judging from its whole structure, in the 

 neighbourhood of thef^Bythoscopini> The interesting genus 

 >J OZiedra, F., seems, at a first glance, to diverge strongly from the 

 other^Jassinae by the remarkable head, the often two-flapped 

 pronotum, and the cultrate posterior tibiae ; it is on this account 

 signalized by Fieber as representing a family, by Sahlberg (/. c. 

 p. 103) as forming a transition to the^^embracinae,-*' to which it 

 is by some authors referred," a supposition entirely without good 



'■''• The nomenclature of various surfaces here and later on is not always 

 strictly in accordance with the original. Any alteration is either initiated or 

 endorsed by the author. — G. W.K. 



