MEM BRAG ID 
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legs ochreous. It is difficult to say ii this insect is or is not A. fuscouei cosa, Faiim. 
Examples, so far as form goes, run much into P/tacusa pallescens, whilst otheis 
occasionally occur darker, like A. nigrinervis, last described. 
Collectors on the spot alone can decide it such are found in mixed companies ol 
the live insects. 
Size, 6x3 mm. 
Habitat. —Chilpancingo. 
ACUTALIS LUCIDUS, n.s. 
(Plate XXXVII. figs. 6, Ga, Gb.) 
Much larger than the last species ; pale testaceous and very shining; concolorous 
except a brown dotted spot above the frons, with a brown line on each side of it on the 
metopidium ; eyes grey ; the intermediate space on the frons has also an irregular 
wavy line and a slender one above the rostrum ; the tegmina pale stramineus, with 
faint nervures and a corrugated limbus; the wings have tour apical areas. 
Size, 8x4 mm. 
Habitat. —Bolivia. 
Wollaston Collection. 
Genus : MICBUTALIS, Fowler. 
Fowl. l.c. p. 11G. 
Four apical areas, and as a rule, no discoidal cellules. The veins of the hyaline 
tegmina are very fine, and difficult to distinguish, particularly where the tegmina are 
partly coriaceous, but there are species which exhibit the nervures more distinctly. 
Some of these species are amongst the smallest of the Membracidae. 
MICRUTALIS BALTEATA, Fairmaire. 
(Plate XXXVII. figs. 7, 7a, 7b.) 
Acutalis balteata , Fairm. l.c. p. I9G. Fowl. l.c. p. 11G. 
Colour variable. Fairmaire describes this species as black, with one forward 
and two lateral lines joined behind, and also an interrupted line on the head, yellow ; 
abdomen yellow; the sides of the chest and the anus black ; legs yellow ; tegmina 
transparent and slightly yellow; seen from the front the eyes are large and connected 
by a white line, and another line encircles the attachment of the rostrum. This insect 
is rather large for the genus. 
Size, 6x3 mm. 
Habitat. —Columbia, Panama. 
