NO. II NEOTROPICAL DICTYOPHARIDAE — FENNAH 3 



decay of the body contents, has practically disappeared along the 

 anterior half of its length. 



The species figured under this name in the Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana is dealt with below under Hyalodictyon. 



Genus LAPPIDA Amyot and Serville 



Lappida Amyot and Serville, 1843, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hemipt., p. 505. (Haplotype, 

 Dictyophara proboscidea Amyot and Serville, ibid.) 



LAPPIDA FEROCULA (Distant) 



Dictyophara ferocula Distant, 1887, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhynch. Horn., vol. i, 

 p. 40, pi. 6, fig. 2. 



To judge from the type this would appear to be the largest species 

 in the genus. The type of Dictyophara chlorochroma Walker (List 

 Horn., vol. 2, p. 311, 1 851) is similar but smaller, while that oi D. 

 compressifrons Walker (List Hom. Suppl., p. 62, 1858) is smaller 

 than chlorochroma and probably distinct. The writer cannot endorse 

 the existing synonymy of these species with any confidence. 



LAPPIDA TUMIDIFRONS (Walker), new combination 



Dictyophara tumidijrons Walker, 1858, List Hom. Suppl., p. 65. 



This species stands well apart from others in its short cephalic 

 process. Tegmina narrow, M forked at level of apex of clavus, stigma 

 I- or 2-celled, 3 rows of transverse veins, infuscate, 17 apical areoles, 

 apical veins and a cloud in membrane near stigma infuscate. 



Genus DICTYOPHAROIDES Fowler 



Dictyopharoides Fowler, 1900, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhynch. Horn., vol. i, p. 44. 

 (Haplotype, D. tenuirostris Fowler, ibid.) 



Melichar and his followers have suppressed Dictyophara telifera 

 Walker under Toropa ferrifera (Walker) ; Dictyophara filijera 

 Walker and D. rufistigma Walker are currently retained in their 

 original genus. These species, however, all belong to quite different 

 genera, separated by characters given in the following key, which may 

 be related to the writer's key to the New World Dictyopharini (Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 57, p. 80, 1944) by substituting it for 

 the name Dictyopharoides in that key. 



