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Show 1895.] HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA OF T H E ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 69 of the front, and the middle carinate line is interruptedly brown and yellow; the base of clypeus, including the carina, margins, and oblique stria?, also yellowish. Rostrum extending to the posterior coxse, pale testaceous banded with brown. Eyes dark brown, with the reflexed socket pale yellow. Antenna? pale fulvous, placed on the rim of the socket next below the eyes. Pronotum pale f ulvo-testaceous, tinged with rufous in front and on the sides ; the disk granulated each side on a large brown spot, the propleura with a brown clot near the origin of the wing-cover. Mesonotum darker on the shield, and this part is divided into areas by two yellowish loops on the sides and a line along the middle; the scutellar portion pale yellowish. Pleural segments pale yellow above, mostly margined with black. The coxa? bright red, excepting the base of the posterior pair; legs dull yellowish, the anterior femora faintly striped with brown, and the tarsi brown at tip. Wing-covers translucent, with five brown dots, and a few obscure cloudy spots at base, near the posterior border, and next the tip. Tergum a little dusky near base and at tip. Veins of wings black. Length to tip of venter 6 mm.; expanse of wing-covers 15 m m . Only two specimens of this remarkable insect were secured. PERSIS LINEATA, Fabr. Specimens of this delicate little species were collected on both sides of the island by M r . H . H . Smith. PATABA GUTTATA, Westw. Three specimens were secured on this island. PATABA ALBIDA, Westw. Only a single specimen was taken. It was found on the windward side of the island. CENCHBEA DOESALIS, Westw. Four specimens of this insect were collected. Three were secured near Kingston at an altitude of 1500 feet, and the fourth was found on the windward side of the island. CENCHEEA EXQUISITA, sp. nov. More robust and with wider wing-covers than G. dorsalis; yellowish white, darker on the upper surface of the body. Vertex a little narrower in front, projecting slightly in front of and above the eyes, the margins strongly elevated, curved and ribbed on the inner side; front long, parallel-sided, white, but more or less yellow above, deeply concave, the clypeus margined and terminated with black; rostrum reaching nearly to the posterior coxa?; the inferior cheeks very wide, pale yellow. Pronotum a little projecting into the curve of the head, short, broadly excurved behind, with the sides broadly expanded and concave ; mesonotum a little |