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Snbf. DICTYOPHARIN.4E. 



DICTYOPHORA Germar. 



Sin. Rev. Ent. (1883) 1, 175. 

 Type: D. eitropwa Linn. 



10. DiCTTOPHOBA PALLIDA Don. 



Fulgora pallida Don., Ins. Ind. (1800) 8, fig. 2. 

 Fulgora graminea Fabr., Syst. Ehyng. (1803) 4. 

 Flatta lyrata Germ., Thon's Ent. Arch. (1830) (2) 2, 47. 

 Pseudopha-na lyrata Burm., Handb. Ent. (1835) 2, 160 

 Pseudophana pallida Westw., Tr. Linn. Soc. (1841) 18, 150. 

 » Dictyophora despecta Walk., List Horn. (1851) 2, 314; Atkins, J. A. S. B. 

 (1886) 55, 27. 



Dictyophora albivitta Walk., loc. cit. 319; Melich., Horn. Fauna Ceyl. 



(1903) 22. 

 ■ Dictyophora lepthorina Walk., loo. oit. 321 ; Atkins, loc. eit. 30. 

 Dictyophora pallida Atkins, loc. cit. 27 ; Dist., Fauna Britisli Ind., Rhyn. 



(1906) 3, 243. 

 Dictyophora faVbivitta Atkins, loc. cit. 29. 



Dictyophora percarinata Kirby, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. (1891) 24, 134; 

 • Melich., loc. cit. 24. 

 Dictyophora hastata Melich., ibid. 25. 



Kirkaldy ^ in his description of insects aiJecting sugar cane indicates 

 an entirely different position and name for the insect described by 

 Distant as cited above, and doubts the identity of Fulgora pallida Don., 

 with the species above indicated. 



Tliere is certainly nothing in the essential structure of the insect 

 under my hand "which would ally it vrith Zamila aberrans Kirby. On 

 the contrary, while Distant's iigure of Dictyophara [sic] lineata Don., 

 is extremely poor as to neuration of the tegmina, my specimen conforms 

 closely to the figure of Pihrocha egregia Kirby, of a closely related 

 genus, as given both by Kirby * and Distant.^ 



As to the term Dictyophara, I find the citation for Germar's genus in 

 Agassiz's ISFomenclator Zoologicus as Dictyophora. I have not Germar's 

 original, but Kirkaldy states that Germar gave it Dictyophora,^ and 

 as Stal '' gave it Dictyophora, I imagine that this change to Dictyophara 

 is a typographical error which has been transmitted. Distant in his 

 citations gives Dictyophara percarinata Kirby, whereas Kirby in his 

 original description gives Dictyophora percarinata. I see no reason 

 why the name should have been changed and agree with Kirkaldy's 

 statement cited. 



Palawan, Iwahig and Bacuit, P. I. (10973 W. Schultze and 11663 



^ Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. (1907), 51, 123. 



* Kirby, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. (1891), 24, pi. 5, fig.//. 



^Distant, Fawm British Ind., Rhyn. (1906), 3, 240, fig. IO4. 



^ Kirkaldy, loc. cit. p. 124, footnote. 



'Stal, Hem. Fair. (1869), 2, 91. 



