April, I92I Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 43 



NEW MEMBRACID^ FROM CHINA AND JAPAN.* 



By W. D. Funkhouser. 



Leptobelus decurvatus sp. nov. (Figs, i and 2). 



Near Leptobelus gasella Fairmaire and Leptobelus dama 

 Germar but differing from both in color, in the shape of the pro- 

 notal column and in the position of the posterior process. 



Large, slender, pronotum dark brown, tegmina smoky- 

 hyaline; suprahumeral horns extending almost directly out- 

 ward ; posterior process strongly decurved, extending almost 

 as far as tip of abdomen and almost touching internal mar- 

 gins of tegmina; undersurface of body dark brown; legs 

 ferruginous-brown. 



Head wider than long, dark brown, roughly sculptured, 

 coarsely punctate, sparingly pubescent ; basal margin sinuate ; 

 eyes large, brown, mottled, prominent; ocelli large, promi- 

 nent, reddish, somewhat protruding, farther from each other 

 than from the eyes and situated slig'htly above a line drawn 

 through centers of eyes ; inferior margins of gense sinuate, 

 flanged, the edge distinctly turned outward ; clypeus long, 

 narrow, more than twice as long as wide, extending for more 

 than twice its length below the inferior margins of the gense, 

 brown, punctate, pubescent, a longitudinal ridge on each side 

 median line, tip acute and pilose. 



Pronotum dark brown, lighter in front, almost black on 

 posterior process, closely and coarsely punctate, sparingly 

 pubescent- with grayish hairs; anterior pronotal process erect, 

 turriculate, the apex giving rise to two long, pointed supra- 

 humeral horns and the long, slender, strongly decurved pos- 

 terior process ; metopidium nearly perpendicular, twice as 

 wide at humeral angles as at base of horns, strongly centrally 

 carinate ; median carina strongly percurrent ; humeral angles 

 prominent, triangular, blunt ; suprahumeral horns long, 

 sharp, triangular at base, carinate before, behind and below, 

 black, punctate, extending almost directly outward, tip 

 slightly bent downward and backward, apex acuminate ; pos- 

 terior process long, decurved, slender, the base remote from 

 scutellum and arising from a point on the anterior process as 

 high as the suprahumeral horns, the tip sharp, extending 

 backward almost as far as the end of the abdomen and bent 

 downwards to nearly touch the tegmina; scutellum entirely 



* Contribution f ro'm the Zoology Laboratory of the University of Ken- 

 tucky. 



