MEMBRACIDJE. 
Ill 
insect figured is drawn from a specimen kindly lent by Dr. Aurivillius from the 
Stockholm Museum. 
General colour warm brown, with a tendency to ochreous yellow on the meto- 
pidium, and more strongly at the tips of the tegmina; pronotum broad and swollen 
between the pointed suprahumerals, which are divergent; dorsum suddenly narrowing 
at about two-thirds of its length to a tapering sharp point; costal and discoidal parts 
of the tegmina rich brown; rest oi the membrane sub-hyaline, and obscurely veined ; 
legs fuscous; hind pair the longest; ocelli in deep depressions on the frons. 
Very like a Centrotus but the scutelluin is covered. 
Size of female, 12x6 mm. 
Habitat. —Dio Janeiro. 
ALCMEONE GODMANI, Fowl. 
Fowler B.C.A. Tab. Y. figs. 24, 24a, 24b, p. 72. 
A remarkable insect, and one of the most conspicuous amongst the Membracidse. 
Broad and robust; head and metopidium scarlet; dorsal part of the pronotum 
shining black, with the front, sides, and space before the posterior apical process 
bright scarlet; apical process long, pointed and black ; tegmina fuscous and darker 
towards the base; legs testaceous; there is a black line proceeding from the highest 
part of the pronotum to the suprahumeral edge. 
Length, 15 mm.; width between the horns, 10 mm. 
Habitat. —Mexico, Jalisco. 
Additions to Alcmeone (hype Hemiptycha centrotoides ) may be noted. 
ALCMEONE CASEOSCALPRIS. 
Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 344, 2G. 
Habitat. —(P). 
ALCMEONE CURYICORNIS, Stal. 
(Efv. Yet. Ak. Fork. p. 256 (1869). 
Habitat. —Cayenne. 
Genus: DARNIS. 
Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. p. 25: Burm. Fairm. Stal, Butler, Walk. Fowler. 
Canon Fowler restricts this genus to three species in his B.C.A. He gives for 
characters by which the genus may be known, as having the greater part of the 
tegmina uncovered, and certain peculiarities of the neuration. This last character 
is marked by three veins, viz., “one radial and two ulnar” proceeding from the base; 
and two discoidals. 
