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MEMBRACID.fi. 
GARGARA GENISTA. 
(Plate LIX. figs. 9, 9a, 9b.) 
Fab. (Membracis genistce), l.c. p. 677. Fairm. l.c. p. 520. Smilia, Germ. Oxyrhachis, Burm. p. 
133. Gargara, Am. et Serv. p. 537. Curtis, Centrotus, Brit. Entom. PI. 313. Buckton, Centrotus 
genista', Brit. Cicada', vol. i. pi. ii. figs. 8, 9, 10. Dr. L. Melichar, Cicadium, Taf. figs. 23-27. p. 16. 
Black or reddish-brown, punctured and pubescent with greyish hairs. Tegmina 
hyaline at the tips, with fuscous nervures, more or less hairy. Legs black or fulvous. 
The hind tarsi were clearly trimerous-jointed in the specimens examined, and were 
without suprahumerals. Pronotum convex and smooth. 
Size, 4x2 mm. 
Habitat. —England, the Tyrol, and Europe generally. 
Feeds on Ononis and Medica/jo. Also on Genista tinctoria in July and August. 
Mr. Kirby notes as many as thirty species under the genus Gargara, of which 
twenty species are represented in the British Museum. 
BRACHYBELUS CRURALIS, Stal. 
(Plate LX. figs. 2, 2a.) 
Stal, l.c. p. 48. B. cruralis, ffifv. Yet. Ak. p. 292. Fowler, l.c. PI. IX. fig. 18. 
A small dark American species. Colour brownish-black ; of an oval form, and 
covered with a greyish pilose coat. There are no suprahumerals. The pronotum 
smooth and convex from the metopidium to the dorsum, and ending in a thin posterior 
horn, the point of which reaches to about half the length of the tegmina. Legs 
yellow. The tegmina have broad fuscous nervures, which enclose five more or less 
rounded apical areas crossed by brown blotches, which give the wings a mottled 
appearance. 
The metopidium and the frons ovoid by the front view, and pilose. 
Size, 4x3 mm. 
Habitat. —Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico, and Panama. 
Genus : TOLANIA, Stal. 
Stal, l.c. p. 248. Fowl. l.c. p. 16. 
Genus Tolania may be said to be transitional amongst the Centrotidae, yet until 
Stal separated the genus, it was regarded as a true Centrotus. Mr. Kirby in his list 
includes seven species, besides those I figure below. 
