MEMBliACIDJE. 
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The Pupa. (Plate XIX. Hg. G.) 
The pronotum is more developed than in the larval condition, and is carried 
farther over the scutellum, which exhibits two long spines. These are not to be 
found in the imago state; the abdomen is more attenuated ; the tegminaare membra¬ 
naceous, weak, and partially elaborated; legs stout and clumsy ; indeed, the whole 
form is somewhat uncouth and grotesque. 
Size, G x 5 mm. 
There are ten specimens of these pupae in the Hope Collection, grouped with 
II. pertma. Presumably they were captured in Guyana in company with the adult 
insects. 
HOPLOPHORA GIGANTEA. Fairm. 
(Plate XX. figs. 4, 4a.) 
Fairm. l.c. p. 2G9. 
Large; pronotum viewed from above long oval, with the apex acute and reaching 
to the end of the abdomen ; punctured, dark brown, with a central carina and two 
other parallel carinai on each side, besides the marginal carina; all of these are bright 
brick-red ; abdomen large, black, and partially covered by the pronotum; legs stout 
and black, the hind femora channelled and furnished with short weak tarsi; tegmina 
dense olive-brown, with a coarse, raised red neuration ; marginal limbi broad ; apical 
areas four; wings delicate, with olive-grey membranes; front of the metopidium 
pubescent. 
The insects are variable in size and in markings. 
Size, 12 x 7 mm. 
Habitat. —Bogota. 
Expanse, 40 to 45 mm. 
HOPLOPHORA CINEREA. 
(Plate XX. figs, a, a a. 
II. cinerea, Fairm. l.c. p. 272; Fowl. l.c. Tab. III. fig. 24, p. 89.) 
Pronotum broad, obtuse, with two auricular or earlike projections on the shoulders ; 
dorsum with a single projecting carina, with three sinuous and less conspicuous 
carinseon each side; colour ochreous-yellow ; tegmina short, hyaline and grey. This 
insect is in shape unlike those before described, and only partly answers to Fairmaire’s 
description : “Cinerea, carinatis, humeris auriculatis.”—Andre. 
Canon Fowler says that this species is very numerously represented in their 
collection, but it is apparently rare in other cabinets. There is but one example in 
the Hope Museum, which I figure, 
