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MEMBRACIDJE. 
MICRUTALIS PALLENS, Fowler. 
(Plate XXXVII. fig?. 8, 8a.) 
Fowl. l.c. 118. 
Uniformly testaceous or else pale ochreous, finely punctured ; head and hind part 
of pronotum darker; eyes red, broad between the shoulders, which are rather 
prominent; abdomen pale yellow, and banded ; tegmina and wings clear hyaline and 
obtuse in outline. 
Size, 3x2 mm. 
Habitat. —Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco. 
This insect might prove to be a variety of A. binaria, Fairm. 
MICRUTALIS BINARIA, Fairmaire. 
(Plate XXXVII. fig. 9.) 
Acutalis binaria , Fairm. l.c. p. 496. Fowler, l.c. p. 117. Micrutalis mutabilis var. ? Fowler 
Acutalis mcesta, Stal, l.c. p. 33. Rio Janeiro. 
Fore part of the pronotum very shiny black, and the hind part pale sordid yellow; 
the thorax also black ; tegmina clear hyaline except at the basal portions, which are 
black and more or less conspicuous; limbus broad and crinkled. 
Fairmaire’s description might seem easy for the identification of this species, yet 
it is not surprising that specimens culled from the immense areas comprised in 
Columbia, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Rio Janeiro, should vary both in 
colour and size. Canon Fowler discusses these variations at some length, but he 
leaves much doubtfulness as to the discrimination of species, and even genus. 
My figure is from Teapa in Tabasco, but I have also examples from Columbia 
through the Heyne and the Rosenberg collections. 
Size, 3x2 mm. 
MICRUTALIS STIPULIPENNIS, n.s. 
(Plate XXXVII. figs. 10, 10a, 10b.) 
Concolorous black, shining, and coarsely punctured; tegmina greyish, with faint 
yellow neuration, and stippled with black ; underside black ; legs yellow. 
Size 4x3 mm. 
MICRUTALIS MINUTUS, n.s. 
Wing small, broad between the shoulders, pyriform, black and shining, not 
punctured, suprahumerals small; tegmina orange-yellow, but dusky at the tips : legs 
short, black, and with yellow tarsi; eyes large. 
Size, 3x1 mm. 
Habitat. —Cacliabe (Rosenberg), Ecuador. 
