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Show 1895.] HEMIPTEBA-HOMOPTEEA OF THE ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 71 in front of the elevation; front dark brown, the clypeus and rostrum pale piceous; eyes convex, dark brown; antenna? wax-yellow. Pronotum dull pale brown, placed almost erect; mesonotum prominently convex, blackish brown, paler on the pleural portion. Scutellum almost equilateral triangular, pale yellow, depressed in the middle. Wing-covers transparent, with a tinge of yellow behind the middle, milk-whitish on the apical third; the veins pale brown, but interrupted with white on the apical division, an irregular brown stripe runs out from the base to near the middle, a double spot forms a bent band running diagonally back from the costa, and a curved triangular spot of tbe same colour runs inward from the apex, the nodal end of the band is bounded inwardly by a white vein. Wings obscure hyaline, with brown veins. Legs and posterior portion of the sternun yellowish. Tergum fulvous at base, the post-dorsolum pale yellow, from thence to behind the tip piceous; venter flat, bright red, marked with series of dark brown callous spots, the margin also dark brown, which colour extends upon the genital segment and its attachments. Length to tip of venter 3 m m . ; expanse of wing-covers 51 m m . Three specimens, mostly in poor condition, were collected on the island. Fam. FJJATIDJE. OEMENIS CONTAMINATA, sp. nov. Obscure whitish yellow, or pale fulvous, covered with white powder when mature. Vertex almost truncated, the middle carina of front constituting a little angle at the summit, the lunate pronotum capping the vertex almost to its front border; front barely wider than long, subquadrate, depressed, with the sides curved and the lower angles a little rounded ; clypeus long, prominent, triangular, with a broad blunt carina on the middle line, acute at tip; the rostrum reaching behind the posterior coxse. Mesonotal shield covering nearly the whole upper surface of the mesothorax, the anterior portion forming a long rounded lobe, and the posterior division constituting a blunt triangle, terminated by a very short scutellum ; the disk oval, bounded on the sides by carinate lines, and having a carina on the middle. Wing-covers nearly parallel-sided, the width across the tip only a little more than across the middle of the clavus with the corium ; the veins very numerous, those of the disk nearly all forked, the apical ones mostly straight, parallel and simple, the series on the border of the inferior apex diagonal, those of the costal area numerous and straight; the postcostal area is occupied in great part by fine reticulated veins ; the clavus is covered with coarse granules, another set occupies the basal angle of the costal area, and the inner middle base of the corium is set with a patch of finer granules ; wings either white or smoky, with darker veins. Abdomen compressed. |