MEMBRA CIDJE. 
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Habitat. —Cayenne, Surinam, Amazons, Wollaston’s and Bates Coll. 
Size, 12 x 8. 
This is the type insect of Stabs sub-family. It certainly is not to be confused 
with Hnchophyllum, cruentatum. 
PHYLLOTROPIS CUCULLATA, Am. and Serv. 
Membracis cucullata, Am. and Serv. 
Habitat. —Brazil.— Brit. Mus. Coll. 
PHYLLOTROPIS FUSCATA. 
Membracis fuscata, Fab. Syst. Rhyng. p. 9, 1803; Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2 ser.) iv. p. 247 
(1846); E. T. Atkinson, Indian Rhynchota, p. 79 (1885). 
Thorax foiiaceous, rounded, fuscous; streak before the anterior margin and 
posterior band, white. 
Atkinson includes this in his Indian Notes, but does not seem to have seen the 
insect. 
Habitat. —E. Indies. 
PHYLLOTROPIS TECTIGERA. 
(Plate III. fig. 3.) 
Membracis tectigera, Oliv. Stoll, l.c. plate xiv. fig. 71. Membracis elevata, Fab. Germ. Membracis 
tectigera, Fairm. l.c. p. 246; Walk, list Homop. B.M. p. 477. 
Pronotum much elevated ; wholly sooty-black, except a spot varying in size near 
the apex, which is ochreous white ; tegmina and legs concolourous. 
This species is one of the most plentiful of the genus: there are more than 
twenty-two examples in the Hope collection at Oxford. Fairmaire includes M. fuscata , 
East Indies, amongst the synonyms, but says he had not seen it for purposes of 
comparison. 
There is a great resemblance between this and the two following species; but 
until we know something of their life-history it will be safe to think them distinct. 
It is doubtful whether the Membracis tectigera of Fowler is the same as the insect 
I figure. Mr. Kirby suspects that this species is only M. fuscata with a wrong locality. 
Figured from the Miers and the Birchell collections, Oxford. 
Size, 13 x 7 mm. 
Habitat. —Venezuela, Rio de la Plata, Brazil. 
