12 MALAYAN MEMBRACIDAE. 



Tegmina amber-hyaline; base brown, punctate and pubescent; 

 irregular brown fascia just behind internal angles. 



Sides of head and thorax white tomentose; undersurface of 

 thorax and abdomen brown; tip of ovipositor slightly ferruginous. 



Legs brown, femora, darker than tibiae which shade into navous 

 at distal ends; tarsi luteus; claws brown. 



Length 4.5 mm.; width between tips of humeral angles 2.1 mm. 

 Type : female. Male somewhat smaller and darker. 

 Locality : Island of Penang. 



Described from a pair from Penang. Type in Professor 

 Baker's collection; allotype in author's collection. 



24. Gargara triangulata, sp. nov. 



Short, thick, heavy-bodied species; brown with white pubes- 

 cence; pronotum almost triangular as seen from above; tegmina 

 ferruginous, semi-opaque. 



Head wider than long, brown, covered with dense white pubes- 

 cence; base weakly sinuate; eyes large, prominent, brown; ocelli 

 small, white, shining, glassy, farther from each other than from 

 the eyes and situated well above a line passing through centers of 

 eyes; inferior margined of genae sinuate; clypeus almost as broad 

 as long, extending for half its length below inferior margin of 

 face, tip broadly rounded and only slightly pubescent. 



Prothorax uniform brown but so irregularly covered with long 

 white pubescence as to give a. fasciate appearance, very finely punc- 

 tate ; humeral angles prominent, swollen, triangular, tips blunt; 

 posterior process heavy and short, extending just beyond internal 

 angles of tegmina, lighter in color at base than at tip, strongly 

 carinate above, tip blunt and slightly deflexed; median carina not 

 extending forward over metopidium; metopidium swollen in front, 

 nearly flat on top. 



Tegmina uniform ferruginous, nearly opaque, much wrinkled, 

 very hairy at base and along veins. 



Sides of thorax densely pubescent; undersurface of thorax and 

 abdomen brown; legs entirely brown. 



Length 3.7 mm.; width between humeral angles 2.5 mm. 

 Type: female (Baker's duplicate No. 8782). 

 Type locality: Singapore. 



Described from two females, one from Singapore and one from 

 the Island of Penang. Type in author's collection; paratype in 

 Professor Baker's collection. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



