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Show 1895.] HEMIPTEEA-HOMOPTEEA OF T H E ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 63 margin posteriorly, brown, sometimes also a pale brown streak at base of corium and two or three traces on the postero-apical portion of the corium and membrane; wings smoky, with pale brown veins. Length to tip of abdomen 3-^-3| m m . ; width between wing-covers 1-L m m . ; expanse of wing-covers 10-10A m m. This beautiful little insect was found at Kingstown and at other places on the island, and at altitudes from 1500 to 2500 feet above sea-level. A closely related species was sent to m e many years ago from the island of Cuba by Dr. John Gundlacb. CUBANA IEEOEATA, sp. nov. Pale fulvous, more or less farinose posteriorly, both above and below. Head a little less oblique at the summit of the front than in the preceding species. Carinate lines of the head and thorax a little paler than the adjoining surface. The under surface paler than the upper. The mesonotum dark brown and the scutellum pale. Inferior margin of the thorax pale. Legs pale testaceous, with the tip of the tarsi piceous. Wing-covers mostly whitish, faintly tinged with brown towards the tip, the veins interrupted with brown, near the apex more distinctly streaked with black, and with a blackish dot near the inferior apical extremity ; clavus with three dark oblique bands, the outer one of which is much wider than the others : near the base of corium are several faint streaks, followed on the middle by a bent band which touches a stripe on the lower border; the base of membrane is bounded by a wavy band which covers the white cross-veins ; beyond this the membrane has several angular streaks near the upper margin, a diagonal band running back from the middle, and a curved stripe behind the dot next the lower border. Wings a little smoke-tinged, the veins brown. Length to tip of abdomen 2f m m . ; expanse of wing-covers 10 mm. Four specimens, all in less mature condition, were collected by Mr. Smith. COTYLECEPS, gen. nov. Form of Bothriocera, excepting in the shape of head. Vertex shorter than the eyes, but projecting nearly the full length in front of them, with the surface deeply sunken and the sides correspondingly and acutely elevated, having the line of contact with the front indented ; the front long, deeply scooped out, with the sides foliaceous, expanded and then tapering to the tip of the epistoma, the carina of the middle much lower than the sides, point of junction between front and epistoma indented and occupied by an ocellus, epistoma with a low and thick carina; cheeks broad, somewhat foliaceous, excavated above the eyes; rostrum reaching to the posterior coxa?. Pronotum very short, |