Mr. Westwood o)I the Family Fulgoridse. 137 



Forehead with elevateil central caririie .... Phenax. 



(Eumallia, Guér.) 

 b. Front of the head rostrated Fu/soru. 



The last-named genus is thus made to comprise not only the old species 

 F. Lateniar'ia, Candelaria, and their allies, but also F. recurra, titha, and fiiler- 

 cnlata, together with Flnta hcemoptera of Ferty ; in which last two species the 

 head cannot be said to be rostrated, and in tlic first two the rostrum is small 

 and recurved, and the second joint of the antennae oval, whence they ought 

 not to be separated from Aphcnui discolor, fitscatit, &c. ; although from the 

 general habit of the insects, and even the colouring of the wings, F. re- 

 curva and its allies as well as F. plafi/r/iina are perhaps too closely related to 

 F. diademu to warrant their absolute removal from the genus. The species, 

 however, are so closely connected together that it is impossible to draw the 

 line of distinction. Germar has also, in a meinoir upon this tribe of insects, 

 published in the fourth number of ^iilbermann's Revue Entomologique, sepa- 

 rated Fulgora europcea, In/alinata, feiiestrata, &.c. under the generic name of 

 Dicti/ophorct, with the character, " Elytra apice reticulata, clypeus oblongo- 

 ovatus, caput conico-elevatum." In consequence of this generic name being 

 previously employed, Dr. Burmeister has changed it in the second volume of 

 his '' Handbuch,'' p. 159, to Pseudaphanu. 



As restricted above, the genus Fulgora may be thus characterized : 



Corpus oblongum, subdepressum. Caput fronte in rostrum vel tubulum plus 

 miniisve elongatum, porrectum, (nee recurvuu),) productâ; nee conico- 

 elevatum. Autemue articulo ^ndo globoso, hemispherico, granuloso, seta 

 e medio ejus apicis exeunte, articulo minutissimo ad basin setœ. Ocelli 2 

 inter oculos et antennas vel potiiis paull^ ante antennas positi. Promuscis 

 3-articulata, ad usque vel ultra basin pedum posticorum extensa. Cly- 

 peus trigonus basi truncatus. Lahrum apice acutum. Prothorucis dor- 

 sum mesothorace pauUt) minus, postice subemarginatum. Hemelytru alis 

 minora, latitudine multo longiora, apice crebrc venosa et reticulata. 



Species 1. Fulgora Laternaria. 

 F. capite porrecto, ovato, thorace majori, longitudine vix ejus latitudineni 



