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MEMBRA (JlI)yE. 
Canon Fowler is doubtless right in placing M. C. album, M. lunata (Fairm.), and 
M. arcuata amongst the synonyms of M. foliata (Fab.). 
Insects from different localities differ in marking and size, but not sufficiently so, 
to make them separate species. 
I believe that the insects marked M. lunata in Plate II. (fig. 3)—drawn from a 
specimen in the national collection—should be taken as M. t'oliata of Fairmaire; and 
so they appear to be ranged in the Hope cabinet. 
MEMBRACIS LUNATA, Fab., Germ., Stoll. 
(Plate II. fig. 3.) 
Membracis lunata, Fab. l.c. (H); Stoll, l.c. (Y), t. 5, fig. 21; Fairm. l.c. (1), p. 244 ; Walker l.c. (Z) 
p. 473. 
Membracis lunata, Fairm. p. 244. 
Fairmaire remarks that Fabricius confounded this species with M. C. album, but 
that he could not see the passage between one to the other. 
Stoll’s figure in “ Les Cigalles ” more nearly represents M. C. album than 
M. lunata. 
MEMBRACIS FLEXA, Walk., Stoll ? 
Membracis lunata, Germ, nec Fab. 
A single example in the B.M. collection differs from M. lunula by the curved form 
of the middle stripe. 
MEMBRACIS CONTINUA. 
(Plate II. figs. 4 and 4a.) 
Membracis continua, Walk. l.c. (Z) supp. 123. 
Imago (fig. 4).—Pronotum with anterior much recurved over the head ; sooty- 
black, with lower half creamy-white except over the encephalon; tegmina sooty-black ; 
legs strongly spatulate; body black. 
Size, 12 x 9 mm. 
I lab it at .—Egan, Amazons. 
Hope Coll. (Bates). 
Grouped with this species is a curious larval form (fig. 4a) labelled from the 
Hope collection, which I figure on the same plate. Possibly this species may be 
dimorphic, for its appearance is not that of M. Jtaveola already described. 
Larva. —Warm sienna brown in colour; body with nine segments, each of which 
bears a broad, pointed, ciliated lamina or flat blade, increasing in length towards the 
head end. 
The whole appears as if the crest of the adult insect bad been split into separate 
parts. The inner platings seem in the specimen to mark the somites of the larva. 
