Altogether 169 species of membracidae were included by Distant (1908, 1915, 1916a-e) in his Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma and in Annals and Magazines of Natural History, followed by Funkhouser (1922, 1933, 1936b) who described another 13 species, making the total 182 distributed over 43 genera. The descriptions given by the above pioneers, though precise, left ut several characters of taxonomic value. The present work is the thoroughly ...
