MEMBRA CIDM. 
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long, and exceeding the tip of the pronotal apex ; colour smoky hyaline, with a broad 
costal border, dense and imbricated; limbus marked ; the neuration dark brown, with 
comparatively broad and short apical areas; legs bright yellow, with broad and 
flattened tibiae ; tarsi of the same colour. 
My figure is drawn from a male specimen in the Fowler Collection. 
Size, 9x5 mm. 
llabitaf. —Geronimo, Guatemala. 
Genus : HYPHEUS, Stal. 
Ofv. Vet, Akad. fig. 24, p. 55. 
HYPHEUS ALBOPICTA. 
(Plate XXIX. figs. 1, la.) 
Pronotum shining sienna brown, finely punctured with yellow. Metopidium 
rising obtusely from the frons to the dorsum, whence it becomes slightly swollen, and 
not smoothly convex as in Tropidarnis. Marginal edge sinuous, whitish, and 
furnished near its middle with a conspicuous white triangular spot. Surface sparsely 
covered with white tomentose hair. Frons pilose, and wide between the eyes. Ocelli 
placed in deep pits. Metopidium with two black spots. 
Tegmina largely exposed, dark grey with brown rings. Hind legs rather long, 
and shining ferruginous. 
Size, 8x5 mm. 
Habitat .—North America. 
From the Hope Collection. 
Possibly this insect may represent the female of Barnis stupida, Walk., though 
he gives a smaller measurement for it. 
Mr. Kirby gives me the following as some described species of Hypheus. 
II. urns, Fairm. (Thelia), l.c. PI. 5, fig. 10, p. HOG. Bogota. 
II. tripartita, Walk. (Darnis), l.c. p. 57G. Florida. 
II. stupida, Walk. (Darnis), l.c. p. 577. Nova Scotia, N. America. 
Genus: HEMIPTYCHA. 
Germar, Fairmaire, Stal, Coding, Walker. 
Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. de France 1845-184G gives the characters : 
Head large and triangular. Prothorax tectiform. Tarsi of the hind legs as 
long as those of the first and second pairs. Suprahumeral processes, if present, diver¬ 
gent. Tegmina elongated, often coriaceous, with parallel nervures somewhat as in 
Umbonia. 
