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MEMBRA CIDJE. 
MEMBBACTS NEBULOSA ? n.s. 
(Plate II. fig. 8.) 
Large. Pronotum with dorsal ridge irregularly sinuate and arcuate. Marginal 
edge notched above the eyes, then nearly straight to the apex. 
Colour fine orange clouded with yellow above the tegmina, with a black dorsal 
edge irregularly encroaching broadly on the lower yellow band. 
Pest of the insect brown. Tegmina dense and broad ; limbus corrugated. The 
two front-tibiae spatulate. This somewhat striking insect may be distinguished by the 
angular form of its lower pronotal edge. 
Size, 14 x 8 mm. 
Kindly lent and figured from Mr. Rippon’s collection. 
Habitat .—Costa Rica. 
MEMBRACIS CELSA, Walk. 
Membracis celsa, Walk. l.c. (Z.) Membracis rectangulata, Ces. 
Habitat. —Brazil (B.M. Coll.). 
MEMBRACIS CURV1LINEA, Walk. 
This may prove to he a variety of M. arcuata. There is a single example in the 
B.M. collection. 
MEMBRACIS FUSIFERA, Walk. 
A single specimen in the B.M. collection. 
Habitat .—Para. The Amazons. 
MEMBRACIS ROSEA, Fairm. plate iv. fig. 24. 
There is a single insect in the B.M. collection from Brazil, thus labelled. 
Fairmaire says it is like fasciata. 
Pronotum elevated, black, with a broad angular band and with a reddish spot 
before the apex. 
MEMBRACIS CINGULATA, Germ., Fairm. 
Fairmaire gives a very short and insufficient description (p. 248, l.c.) There is 
a species thus named in the B.M. from the Amazons, 
Habitat. —Brazil. 
