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Described from a single female collected by F. W. Urich, Trinidad, 
B. W. L. (1919), taken from the collection of the former Imperial De- 
partment of Agriculture. It has not proved possible to place this 
specimen with accuracy owing to its poor condition. It is not rep- 
resented in the collection of the B.M.N.H. 
Genus TOROPA Melichar 
Toropa MELIcHAR, Abh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 7, p. 80, 1912. (Genotype, 
Dictyophora ferrifera Walker.) 
Vertex quadrate, lateral margins parallel, basal margin angularly 
excavate, a transverse impression before eyes, at which vertex narrows 
- into a cephalic process projecting obliquely upward, slightly expanded 
in apical third, rounded-truncate at apex, with lateral margins dis- 
tinctly concave; frons with median carina present only in basal half, 
lateral carinae distinct throughout; clypeus tricarinate. Pronotum 
produced anteriorly, tricarinate, with an impression on each side of 
middle line; mesonotum tricarinate, lateral carinae arcuate. Pro- 
tibiae not markedly longer than profemora, posttibiae with five spines. 
Tegmina long, rather narrow, with supernumerary longitudinal veins. 
and an apical, subapical, and nodal line of transverse veins, stigma 
with three or four cells. 
TOROPA FERRIFERA (Walker) 
PLATE 11, Figures 243-250 
Dictyophora ferrifera WALKER, List of specimens of homopterous insects in the 
collection of the British Museum, vol. 2, p. 318, 1851. 
Male: Length, 11.8 mm.; tegmen, 13.9 mm. Female: Length, 12.0 
min.; tegmen, 15.0 mm. 
Vertex with process nearly four times as long as wide at base, process 
directed upward at 35°; frons with median carina present only in 
basal half, lateral carinae reaching apex; cephalic process subrectangu- 
lar in profile and in section. Hind tibiae with five spines. Tegmina 
with stigma with three or four cells. 
Head, thorax, legs, and abdomen dark emerald-green; eyes dark 
red; lateral margins of cephalic process, dorsally and ventrally, lateral 
carinae of frons, pronotum behind eyes red, marginal carinae of prono- 
tum between eyes and tegulae black in basal half, the carina below 
them on each side broadly black except on basal quarter. Tegmina 
hyaline, clouded with brown around apex, veins green, dark distad of 
nodal line. Wings hyaline. 7 
Anal segment of male rather long, narrow, with upper margin, as 
seen in profile, almost straight, the lower somewhat curved, apex 
obliquely truncate. Aedeagus with periandrium narrow, tubular, 
elongate, deeply cleft laterally at apex; spines of penis arising from 
