1925] Notes and Descriptions of the Cercopidce of Cuba 
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NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE CERCOPIDdE OF 
CUBA. 
By Z. P. Metcalf, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N. C. 
and 
S. C. Bruner, Estacion Experimental Agronomica de Cuba, 
Santiago de las Vegas. 
This is the first of a series of papers on the Homoptera of 
Cuba which have been collected by the junior author during the 
past eight years. For some unknown reason the homopterous 
fauna of Cuba has been neglected since the publication of de la 
Sagra’s “Historia de Cuba,” in 1856, which 
contained a list of the Homoptera of Cuba by Guerin-Meneville, 
with descriptions of new species, but he did not include a single 
Cercopid. In 1864, Uhler, (Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia II : 155- 
162) described some new species of Hemiptera including three 
new species of Cecropidse, Clastoptera stolida, Clastoptera undulata, 
and Tomapsis ( Monecphora ) fraterna, from Cuba. Again in 1876, 
(Bui. U. S. Geol. Survey I: 348) he described, Lepyronia an - 
gulifera, from Florida and stated that he had specimens from 
Cuba. The present list records fifteen species and one variety; 
twelve species appear to be new to science, indicating very 
clearly how much the Cercopid fauna of Cuba has been neglec- 
ted. One new genus is also described, indicating that Cuba 
may be an important center for the development of this group. 
No less than five new species of the genus Leocomia Ball are 
recognized, indicating that Cuba may be an important center 
for the development of this genus, which was described from 
Hayti. The genus Monecphora is very poorly represented in 
our collections, only two species, M. bicinda Say, and its variety 
fraterna Uhler and flavifascia n. sp. Monecphora bicinda Say 
variety fraterna Uhler equals Monecphora fraterna Uhler. 
Monecphora bicincta fraterna Uhler. 
Monecphora fraterna Uhler is certainly very close to the 
common North American M. bicincta Say and we believe that 
the two species are identical. The following points are evident 
in a comparison of M. bicincta from North Carolina, with M. 
