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MEMBRA CID/E. 
POLYGLYPTA TRICOLOR, Butler. 
(Plate XXXVIII. figs. 8, 8a.) 
Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 209, t. 8, fig. 5. Fowl. l.c. p. 125. 
Smaller than the preceding species; colour dark brown, with two yellow inter¬ 
rupted patches on each side of the pronotum ; a central carina is flanked by another 
on each side, making three the most obvious; legs yellow ; there is a yellow punc¬ 
tured patch at the corner of each eye, near the region of the shoulders. 
Size, 10 x 3 mm. 
Habited. —Oaxaca, Peru, Amula in Guerrero. 
B.M. Collection. 
POLYGLYPTA BOGOTENSIS, Fairm. 
(Plate XXXVIII. fig. 9.) 
Fairm. l.c. p. 297. 
Broad between the shoulders ; bright shining yellow, generally with one central 
and four lateral carinee on each side; pronotum viewed from the back with an 
irregular annular mark near the tail end, and another on each side nearer to the 
shoulders; tegmina olive brown ; legs rather stout and reddish. 
My figure from the National Collection oiily partially agrees with Fairmaire’s 
description. “ Cornu antico leviter recurvo, signis fuscis lateralibus vix conspicuis,” 
but the colours clearly vary in different specimens. 
Fowler places P. boyotensis as a synonym of P. costata. 
Size, 11x3 mm. 
Habitat. —Colombia. 
Genus : ENTYLIA, Germar. 
Fairm. l.c. p. 299 (1846). Fowler, l.c. p. 129. Walk. l.c. p. 547. 
This genus and the following Publilia of Stal is in some confusion, partly caused 
by the great variability of the species, their tendency to run into one another, 
and to show overlapping characters. Again the pronotum, which is generally 
a distinctive character, may here be either convex or concave. The procephalic pro¬ 
cesses, so far as form is concerned, are unreliable. 
Canon Fowler gives thirteen synomyms for Ent glia sinuata, Germar. Walker 
names twelve species in his list, which Stal cuts down to five. 
Dr. Butler in a revision has reinstated three of these but has added two others. 
It is doubtful if Stal’s genus Publilia, the next named, will stand. It was erected 
to take in Entylia concisa, as the type. Fowler examined a long series of Entylia 
sinuata and he referred most of these insects to Dr. Butler’s species, E. ineequalis. 
