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spelled, or from the word or two of description giving only 
the length and color of the insects. Osborn, in 1926c : 354, 
listed Pelitropis rotulata Van Duzee among the Fulgoridse 
taken by him in Cuba, a species described from Florida and 
known also from Mississippi and North Carolina. Myers 
in a recent paper, 1928a :23, deals with two species of this 
family, Neurotmeta sponsa Guerin and Remosa spinolx 
Guerin. A number of other genera and species have been 
recorded from the adjacent West Indian Islands, but so 
far as we know no other species heretofore assigned to this 
family have been recorded from Cuba. The present paper 
lists eight species, four species apparently being new. The 
synonymy and distribution of the other species are dis- 
cussed. 
Neurotmeta sponsa Guerin 
This species was described by Guerin Meneville in 
1856a: 180. This description was copied in Guerin Mene 
ville, 1857a: 429. There is a brief popular description of 
this insect by Uhler, 1884a : 231. He lists it from Cuba, 
San Domingo and Florida, and assigns it to the genus 
Tangia Stal. The next reference to the species is by Van 
Duzee, 1907a : 35. But the insects which he collected in 
Jamaica and which we have examined are not the same as 
the Cuban material ; “Elytra with a broad costal membrane 
crossed by numerous oblique veinlets.” Melichar, 1914f : 100- 
101, redescribed the genus Tangia Stal with Monopsis viri- 
dis as the type, and then redescribes the species sponsa, which 
he assigns to Uhler. Van Duzee, 1917b : 739, assigns this 
species to the genus Neurotmeta. Metcalf, 1923a : 154, sep- 
arated Neurotmeta sponsa from Monopsis tabida Spinola 
on the basis of the presence of costal cross-veins in the 
former and their absence in the latter. This is not a good 
character, however, as it is doubtful if the few irregular 
lines in the costal area can be interpreted as costal cross- 
veins. As has been pointed out by Melichar it would be 
better to separate these two genera on the basis of the 
branching of medius, the fork occurring near the base of 
the wing in Monopsis and near the middle of the wing in 
Neurotmeta. Otherwise these two genera are quite similar. 
