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Show 1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OF GRENADA. 195 HALTICUS, Burm. PIALTICUS UHLERI, Giard. Halticus uhleri, Giard, C. Bend. Soc. Biol. ser. 9, iv. p. 81. Halticus minutus, Uhler, in Popenoe, Beport, Kansas, 1889, p. 212, pi. 9. figs. 10 & 12. Calocoris canus, Dist. t. c. p. 430, pi. 37. figs. 11 & 12. Several specimens were found, most of which were winged. A brachypterous specimen was taken, March 25, on the Mirabeau estate; the other specimens were found, in August, among dry weeds and rubbish on damp ground at Balthazar and Chantilly. EPISCOPUS, Beuter. EPISCOPUS ORNATT/S, Beuter. Episcopus ornalus, Beuter, Ofv. Vetensk.-Akad. Forh. 1875, no. 9, p. 90. Lygus uvidus, Dist. t. c. p. 433, pi. 37. fig. 18. In the United States this species is distributed from New York to Florida, and from thence to Cuba and San Domingo. It abounds in midsummer in fields from which wheat has been cut, and where it lives upon the Ambrosia artemisicefolia. In Grenada it was common at Balthazar and on the Mirabeau estate, on weeds, both in April and August. PSALLUS, Pieber. PSALLUS POLITUS, Sp. nOV. Oval, black, highly polished, minutely pubescent. Head large, triangular, almost vertical, moderately convex, rufo-piceous beneath, with a few indented points on the vertex, the width across the eyes a little greater than the apex of the pronotum ; antennae yellow, short, moderately stout, the two apical joints and sometimes the distal end of the second joint fuscous, the second nearly as long as the head and pronotum united ; rostrum testaceous, piceous at base, the tylus also piceous. Pronotum transverse, simple, moderately convex, obliquely narrowed, and abruptly decurved on each side in front, the surface highly polished, sparsely pubescent, obsoletely punctate. Scutellum nearly equilateral, moderately convex, acute at tip, obsoletely wrinkled. Legs testaceous, the tarsi usually more or less dusky. Hemelytra highly polished, minutely greyish pubescent, covered with shallow punctures ; the membrane smoke-brown. Pleural pieces and sternum piceous. Venter highly polished, not apparently punctate, often rufo-piceous at base. The male has the second joint of antennae a little thickened at apex and often fuscous there. Length to tip of venter l|-2 m m ; width of pronotum | mm. Nineteen specimens of this little insect were secured in various places on the windward side of the island. Of these both sexes |