PROCEEDINGS OF THE Entomological Society of Washington VOL. 47 JUNE, 1945 No. 6 THE TROPIDUCHIDAE OF THE LESSER ANTILLES (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) By R. G. Fennah, Entomologist, Food-crop Pests Investigation, Windward and Leeward Islands In 1881 Lethierry described two tropiduchid species {triangu-lator and longiceps) collected by M. Delauney in Guadeloupe, and referred them to the genus Alcestis Stal; his descriptions, however, leave no doubt that he was dealing with species be-longing to two genera of the tribe Tambiniini. In 1895 Uhler, dealing with the Homoptera collected in St. Vincent by H. H. Smith, described the genus Tangidia with a new species, alter-nata, as the monotype, and two other new species, angustaia and emarginata, which he placed in Tangia Stal and Dictyo-phara Germar respectively. Nineteen years later Melichar recognised the generic distinctness of Tangia angustata Uhler and in his monograph of the Tropiduchidae made this species the genotype of his new genus Neotangia, which was distin-guished principally by its rather short rounded vertex, on which the median carina was forked in the basal half, by the absence of cross-veins along the costal margin, and by the tegminal veins Sc+R and M reaching the transverse nodal line before forking. Melichar did not include Dictyophara emarginata Uhl. in his monograph of the Tropiduchidae or in that of the Dictyopharidae. In 1931 Muir, after examining the material in the British Museum, placed this species in Neotangia Mel., con-sidering it to be typical of the genus, and described a new species, uhleri, from Grenada, B.W.I., which he referred to Tangidia Uhl., though apparently with some hesitation, as he added the note "I doubt if Neotangia Melichar, will be able to stand apart from Tangidia.'' (1931 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(7): 306). Such is the history of the species described from the Lesser Antilles. In the present paper reference is made to tambiniine genera known only from the Greater Antilles, these being Remosa Distant, Neurotmeta Guerin-Meneville, and Cypho-ceratops Uhler, the second of which has Lesser Antillean repre-sentatives. Remosa was erected by Distant in 1906 to receive Dictyophora cultellator Walker from Santo Domingo, and in the following year Van Duzee fonsiderpd that some specimens
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