MEMBRA CIDJZ. 
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SCAPHULA MELANOCEPHALA. 
Fowler, l.c. Tab. VI. fig. 15, p. 83. 
Fowler describes this insect as chestnut brown, small, shining, with a black head, 
Dorsum slightly rounded, but much shorter than the tegmina; abdomen brownish- 
testacious; legs testaceous. I have not been able to figure an example. 
Size, 3x2 mm. 
Habitat. —Panama, Bugaba. 
Other species are : 
B. 8emiatra, Fairm. S. minuta, Fab. (Membracis). E. India. 
This monograph does not claim to be exhaustive or to describe all the species of 
Membracidse noted by authors, or to give a complete catalogue of published names of 
species. Yet a list with some reference to the genera indicated by writers previous 
to Stab’s memoirs on this family, may be useful to later workers. I add such a list of 
Darninse and mark such genera as are represented in the British Museum collection 
up to present date. In a few years time, doubtless, new species will be recorded; 
and thus lengthen or curtail existing catalogues, where distinctions do or do not rise 
to the importance of real genera. 
Stab has been a great subdivider, and his authority appears often in this list, 
which has been collated from the transactions and publications of natural history 
societies already cited. 
GENERA OF DARN I NEE. 
Species 
in B.M. 
Genera. 
Authors. 
Equivalents. 
Species 
described. 
4 
Ochrolomia . 
St§.l. 
Darnis .... 
2 
Aspona 
Still. 
Tragopa .... 
6 
5 
Darnis 
5 
8 
Stictopelta . 
Stal. 
Darnis .... 
23 
Tropidarnis . 
Fowl. 
2 
3 
Cryptoptera. 
Stal. 
Darnis .... 
4 
2 
Leptosticta . 
Stal. 
5 
3 
Hebetica 
Stal. 
Darnis .... 
4 
Hebeticoides 
Fowl. 
3 
Dectonura . 
Bult. 
Darnis .... 
1 
Alebia .... 
Stal. 
1 
5 
Alcemeone . 
Stal. 
Hemiptycha 
7 
7 
Hyphinoe 
St&l. 
Hemiptycha, Thelia 
13 
i 
Pyranthe 
stai. 
Hemiptycha 
11 
Dysyncritus. 
Fowl. 
1 
i 
1 
Tomogonia . 
Stal. 
Smilia, Darnis 
3 
x 
