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The larger one (fig. 4a) is defective, and probably is only the slough of a larva. 
The other is more perfect, and my above description applies to it only. 
Attention may be directed to the pupa of M. continua, which I have figured 
(Plate II. fig. 4a). The two anterior large leaves or plates may represent the lobes 
seen in the pupa of M. Jicweola. 
Size, 8 x 7 to 7 x 5 mm. 
MEMBRACIS FUSCA. 
(Plate I. fig. 5.) 
Membracis fusca, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, p. 244. Stal. Cicada foliata, De Geer, 
t. 32, fig. 14. Foliata atrata, Fab. Sys. Rhyn. 8, 10. Foliata fusca, Oliv. 
Fairmaire’s description is simply “ Tota fusco-nigra immaculata.” Briefly I add • 
pronotum deep brown; posterior apex recurved; tegmina dense brown; wings 
hyaline, with strong dark nervures ; body large, and warm sienna brown in colour. 
The example I figure is from the national collection in the British Museum. It 
is remarkable from the very large valves which cover the male genitalia. 
Size, 8 mm. 
Habitat. —Cayenne, Central America. 
MEMBRACIS CARINATA, Fab., Germ. 
Fairm. plate iv. fig. 20, p. 244. 
Brown with two white spots. 
Habitat .—South America. 
MEMBRACIS FOLIATA. 
(Plate II. figs. 1 and 3.) 
Cicada foliata, Linn. Membracis foliata, Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 675. Membracis C. album, Fairm. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 244. Stal. C. album. Fowler, B.C.A. p. 5. Membracis lunata, Fairm. 
p. 244; Stol. t. 5, fig. 24. 
Pronotum semi-circular at the rim, which is black. The flat disc is marked by 
one anterior, upright, white stripe, followed by two others, which, if they united before 
they reached the lower margin of the pronotum, would form a conspicuous white C 
If they do not so unite, they take the form of the variety M. lunata (fig. 3), in 
which the white stripes are separated. 
The rest of the body and the tegmina are dark sootv-black. The tibiae are 
broadly spatulate, and the hind legs are slightly serrated. Tarsi small and more or 
less ferruginous. 
There appears to be some confusion in the labelling of this species in the three 
chief collections known in England—viz., the British Museum, the Hope collection at 
Oxford, and that of Messrs. Godman and Salvin, and described in the B.C.A. 
