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Cuban Tropiduchidae and Acanaloniidse 
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CUBAN FULGORINA 
1 The Families Tropiduchidae and Acanaloniidae 
By Z. P. Metcalf, North Carolina State College, 
and 
S. C. Bruner, Estacion Experimental Agronomica, 
Republica de Cuba 
The present series of papers will deal with the Fulgorids 
of Cuba. It is our purpose not only to list the species which 
have been recorded previously from Cuba with critical 
bibliographic and taxonomic notes, but also to describe cer- 
tain species which are apparently new. Special emphasis 
is placed on the male genitalia, as it is believed that these 
furnish the most reliable, specific characters. The descrip- 
tions will include only characters which may be readily 
observed by external examination. The internal genitalia 
of nearly all the species are illustrated by detailed drawings 
which are believed to be of more value than any attempt 
to describe these elaborate structures. 
The specimens on which the present paper is based were 
collected largely by S. C. Bruner, J. Acuna and C. H. 
Ballou. 
Family Tropiduchidae 
The family Tropiduchidae was monographed in 1914 by 
Melichar. He listed only one species, Tangia sponsa Guerin, 
from Cuba, although Uhler, 1910a : 510, described Cypho- 
ceratops furcatus from Cuba and Haiti. However, four 
years previously Pedro Valdes, 1910 : 442, had recorded 
four species belonging to this family from specimens pre- 
served in the Gundlach Museum, Havana, although the 
systematic position of all of these cannot be determined 
either from the names employed, which are badly mis- 
