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Genus : ELAPHICEPS * n.g. 
The peculiar form of the bifid suprahumerals, the high metopidium, the dorsal 
attachment of the posterior process, and the different character of the neuration, 
seem to justify a generic separation from Anchon. 
ELAPHICEPS CERVUS, n.s. 
(Plate XLYIII. figs. 4, 4a.) 
Colour, pale fuscous, except the procephalic process which is black and shining. 
This horn rises above the head, and spreads from the conical part into two branches 
each of which is bifid. At their origin a long cylindrical process points backwards, 
and is equal in length to the tegmina. These have dense membranes, marked by 
whitish veins. 
The scutellum is partly exposed, and shows a white patch. The front aspect is 
branched, somewhat in the manner of a stag’s head. 
The suprahumerals are merely acute protuberances. 
Size, 12 x 7 mm. 
Habitat. —G hina. 
Note.— The author has not proposed to himself the serious task of preparing a monograph of the 
Membracidm of the world. He only hopes that some useful work may be accomplished as a pioneer, and 
some inducement offered to future competent entomologists to add to our scanty knowledge of an 
interesting family of insects. 
This treatise does not even serve as a catalogue of all species. The time is not arrived for obtaining 
Central African, or the Asiatic species which doubtless exist. 
Here again the author tenders his best thanks to Mr. W. F. Kirby for his help in comparing 
many insects with specimens contained in the cabinets of the British Museum. He also has liberally 
allowed him to use a preliminary catalogue, which he has prepared, of such Membrackke as are therein 
contained, but he is in no ways committed to any classification adopted in this Monograph. 
That portion which relates to the Smiliinae the author proposes here to use. It deals with fifty-four 
genera, but perhaps, for present needs, it will be sufficient to name the genera and the authors who 
originally proposed them, and then to point out one or two characteristic species, which may be regarded 
as types of the genus. Such a plan, in addition to the coloured examples furnished by this work, may 
avail towards a rough classification and show the features of the group. 
The author is painfully aware of many deficiencies, which have been partially met by a pretty 
constant appeal to the microscope. 
From c\a<l>os, a deer or stag. 
