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Show 178 PROP. P. R. UHLER ON THE [Mar. 6, clothed with erect hairs. Venter and sternal pieces highly polished, finely punctate, transversely grooved, the grooves of the pleura more especially punctate; stigmatal orifices black; connexivum green, more coarsely punctate, the angles of the segments acute; ventral ridge prominent, highly polished, impunctate. Length to end of venter 10-13 mm.; width of pronotum 6^-7 mm. Forty-one specimens were collected at different places on the island. At Balthazar, on the windward side, they were taken on April 1, in the swampy forest near the sea-shore, and mainly in the mangrove district; also April 13, at an altitude of 350 feet, in second-growth timber near the border of a stream on the Lake Antoine estate. This species approaches E. meditabunda in the structure of the mesosternal plate, which has the anterior fork long and slender, with the sides acutely triangular, and the posterior fork shorter and more blunt; but it differs in having the tylus much longer, the sides of the head not turned up, in the evenly reflexed and not knobby border of the pronotum, in the longer and acute scutellum, and in the more contracted and less callous costal margin. COEIIDJ;. SPARTOCERA, Lap. SPARTOCERA PUSCA (Thunb.). Cimex fusca, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Spec. ii. p. 44. Ten specimens of two varieties of this insect were collected on the Mount Gay estate. They were obtained, April 2, from thickets on swampy ground; also September 14, at elevations of 400-600 feet, on open places on herbage ; and on September 29 they were beaten from herbage on the hillside. One specimen was taken at Chantilly, March 23, in a clearing, on the underside of a log. ACANTHOCERUS, Pal. Beauv. ACANTHOCERUS LOBATUS, Burm. Acanthocerus lobatus, Burm. Handb. ii. p. 318. Specimens of this insect were obtained in nearly every section of the island. At Balthazar they were beaten from' herbage, March 19, on an open place about 250 feet above the sea. Others were taken at Chantilly, Vendome, and particularly on the Mount Gay estate, where they were numerous in September, on herbage. LEPTOGLOSSUS, Guerin. LEPTOGLOSSUS ZONATUS (Dallas). Anisoscelis zonata, Dallas, List, ii. p. 452. The most beautiful variety of this insect proves to be quite abuudant in Grenada. Specimens were taken, both in the spring |