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PLATE LXXL 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME NEW FULGORID^ FROM COLOMBIA AND 
FULGORA (EPISCIUS?) AMABILIS. Westw. 
(Aonals of Nat, Hist., April, 1842.) 
(Plate 71, fig, 1.) 
F. rostro (thoracis longitudine, supra piano, subconico apice suLtruncato) capite pro- et meso- 
notU griseo-fuscis, metanoti et abdominis dorso testaceo maculis nigris ; alis anticis 
Irunneo-fuscis apice pallidioribus, fusco-nebulosis; posticis basi fulvis medio fuscis 
apice hyalinis. 
Long. corp. lin. 5^. Expans. alar. lin. lOJ. 
Habitat Mexico. In Mus. Hope et nostr. 
This elegant little insect, in its elongated flattened rostrum, 
agrees with the Fulgora platyrhina of Germar and my monograph 
published in the Linnsean Transactions, vol. xviii., (which the 
Marquis Spinola* * * § and M. Serville-f- have separated as a distinct 
genus, under the name of Episcius Spinolse). It differs from it, how¬ 
ever, in its rostrum being more elongated, with both the upper and 
under surfaces more entire, and especially in the narrow, ordinary 
form of the fore wings. The structure of the anal appendages is 
also different. These differences are, probably, in this group, of 
not higher than specific value; and hence possibly the Aphana 
corticina of Burmeister (a Brazilian insect, measuring nearly 2^ 
inches in the expanse of the fore wings, quite distinct from the 
Dilobura corticina of Spinola, which measures only 22 lines in 
expanse), as well as Spinola’s species (which M. Serville has named 
D. Spinolre), and another closely-allied Brazilian insect in my own 
collection,^ ought, probably, to be reduced into one group, distin¬ 
guished by the elongated and flattened rostrum. § This group is 
peculiar to the New World, for Homalocephala, the Old World type, 
(consisting of African and East Indian species,) the only other group 
with a flattened poirected forehead, can scarcely be said to have the 
* Aim. Soc. Eut. de France, 1839, p. 252. 
t Hist. Nat. Ins. Heraipt., 1843, p. 494. 
; Dilobura subocellata, Westw. Albido-lutescens fronte subtus subtnearinato el nigro- 
inargiaato, capite et tborace supra rugosis, abdomine nitido segnientis basi utrinque nigro- 
maciilatis, alis anticis albido-lutescentibus fusco subreticulatis maculisque rotundatis luteis, 
versus apicem alarum niagis jndistinclis, alis posticis albis, pedibus supra nigro-raaculatis 
tibiis posticis extus 6-spinosis, spinis apic.alibu8 baud inclusis. 
Long. corp. lin. 9^. Expans, alar, antic, lin. 30. (unc. 2^). 
Habitat in Brasilia interiori. Mus. Westw. 
§ Fulgora planirostris of Donovan (Ins. N. Hull.), which Serville refers to the genus 
Homalocephala, belongs (o the Cicadellidcous, not to the Fulgondcous section of the family. 
