MEMBRA CIDJE. 
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singular appearance which, though closely allied to Telamona, may yet prove to 
belong to Stal’s genus Heliria as thus separated. It certainly is not, however, 
Heliria cristata as figured in the B.C.A. 
Large, almost black by the naked eye, but shining brown in a strong light’ 
furnished with a yellow triangular patch at the posterior end of the globuloid 
pronotum; the dorsum is inflated and tuberose, with the principal swelling above 
the blunt suprahumerals ; the pronotum short, and showing the darkfumose tegmina 
free; legs pitchy black, with the hind pairs coarsely serrated; lower margin of the 
pronotum deeply sinuous at the wing insertions; frons pale, with the ocelli in deep 
pits ; colour of the face sienna yellow ; tegmina dark, and thus obscuring the neura- 
tion, which is peculiar; the apical area is not stylate. The figure is that of a male, 
with a protruding style to the abdomen. 
Expanse, 12 x 9 mm. 
Habitat .—North America (P). 
T. V. Wollaston Coll. 
Genus: LYCODERES. 
Steyaspis , Germ. Burm. Fairmaire, l.c. p. 522. Fowler, l.c. p. 164. 
The neuration of this genus is one of the chief characteristics by which it may 
be known. Except for this particular, the facies of the species is very varied. 
The recorded species are rather numerous, but they seem to require a regrouping 
with some reference to the general aspects of the insects. Plate III. of Fairmaire’s 
above-named “ Revue de la Tribu ” may be consulted, to show by the small outlined 
figures, the remarkable forms assumed by the prothorax. The procephalon may be 
porrect, twisted, or hammer-headed; the pronotum may be inflated or compressed 
like Membracis proper; the fore tibiae may be spatulate or prismatic. 
The tegmina are short, and show three basal and one discoidal area. The areas 
near the costa are semi-coreaceous, much punctured, and sometimes very obscurely 
seen. 
Fairmaire describes seventeen species, and Fowler figures two more, both with 
porrect horns like Aconophora, and a venation somewhat similar to Bocydium. 
The scutellum is barely visible, but Fairmaire says, “ Prothorax tres visiblement 
echancre sur lecusson.” 
Stegaspis of Germar is allied to Lycoderes, but the apex of the pronotum is not 
lobed. 
LYCODERES, Fairm. Fowler. 
Steyaspis, Germ. Burm. Am. et Serv. 
As Lycoderes of Fowler does not agree with Fairmaire’s descriptions, I give the 
