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Show 1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OF GRENADA. 191 back from it, widening at the basal margin, narrowing between callosities and sending off a slender line behind them; lateral margins sinuated, acutely reflexed, excepting the sides of the prominent collum ; margin of the propleura also reflexed. Legs black, orange or rufous on the coxae and base of femora. Scutellum almost flat, flavo-rufous, a little fuscous near the basal angles. Hemelytra dark brown, greyish-pubescent, with the cuneus and inner edge of the clavus fulvous ; costal areole long, narrow and almost straight, the membrane dark brown, the vein of the areole pale. Venter yellow, invested with long whitish pubescence, the sides obscured with a series of spots, and the ovipositor black. Length to end of venter 5-5| mm.; width of pronotum 2-1- mm. Only two specimens, a male and a female, of this bright insect were secured. They were found on an open and weedy place upon herbage, on La Force estate, at an elevation of about 350 feet above the sea. CALOCORIS, Fieber. CALOCORIS (MEGACOBLUM) RUBRINERVIS (Dist.). Creontiades (Megaccelum) rubrinervus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Hem.-Het. p. 237, pi. 23. fig. 12. A fine series of specimens were brought back from the island. They were found on both sides of the region. At Balthazar they were taken April 7, from plants in open weedy places near a stream of water. In March they were found on the Mirabeau and Lake Antoine estates. In August they were swept from herbage on the Mount Gay and Lake Antoine estates. The form of the sides of the head and proportions of tbe antennae seem to place this species in Calocoris rather than in Megaccelum. MELINNA, Uhler. MELINNA MODESTA, Uhler. Melinna modesta, Uhler, Entomol. Americana, iii. 1887, p. 69. Several specimens were taken on the Mount Gay estate and at St. George's, late in August and early in September, by sweeping the herbage. In Maryland this species occurs in late summer on willows, and also on undergrowth of thin woods and on pine-trees, near streams of water. PHYTOCORIS, Fabr. PHYTOCORIS EXIMIUS, Beuter. Phytocoris eximius, Beuter, Ofv. Vetensk.-Akad. Forh. 1875, no. 9, p. 67. Three specimens, all different in markings, were found at Balthazar, March 2, and at St. George's in September. They came to the light at night. |
