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Show 1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OP GRENADA. 197 more distinctly hairy. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, minutely pubescent, strongly decurved behind the eyes, with the lateral margins reflexed and set with remote bristles, the humeral angles a little prominent, posterior margin a little curved; sternum piceous, transversely tumid at the collum, and smooth. Legs dusky testaceous, with the anterior femora broad and compressed. Hemelytra dull black, pubescent, gradually widening posteriorly, the membrane almost as long as the corium, opaque, and bluntly rounded at tip, with the middle area large and oval, similar to C. brasiliensis; costal margin broadly recurved almost to the tip of corium, the cell adjacent to the costa long and wide, subtriangular. Length to tip of hemelytra If m m . ; width of pronotum § m m . Numerous specimens were collected in various localities in the island. At Balthazar, 250 feet above tide-level, specimens were secured, April 20, in weedy open places in second-growth thickets, and at the same place on August 4, 10, 15, flying at sunset. On the Mount Gay estate they were found August 28-31 and September 6, at an altitude of 200 feet, flying at sunset. On the Grand Etang they were secured at an altitude of 1900 feet on a clearing in the damp forest, where they were beaten from masses of brush and from leaves. On the Chantilly estate they were found, August 5, at an altitude of 500 feet on open hillsides, amidst a second-growth timber, where they were swept from piles of decaying weeds and rubbish. CRYPTOSTEMMA, H.-Schf. CRYPTOSTEMMA FASCIATUM, sp. nov. Dark'brown, opaque, oblong-oval, gradually widening posteriorly, minutely pubescent. Head subconical, tinged with rufous in front and below; antennae long, stout, rufo-testaceous, hairy; rostrum pale testaceous, reaching to the posterior coxae. Pronotum a little wider than long, indistinctly grooved on the middle line, steeply decurved on the sides anteriorly, where it becomes a little narrower. Legs pale testaceous. Hemelytra apparently coriaceous throughout, dark brown, minutely scabrous and pubescent, crossed behind the scutellum by a wavy, broad, deep yellow band. Beneath dull yellow on the meso- and metasternum, and sometimes on the base of the venter. The entire underside is sometimes pale piceous. Length to tip of venter 1 m m . ; width of pronotum | m m . Four specimens were collected on the Grand Etang, August 9, at an altitude of 1900 feet above the sea, from masses of roots, pbyto-parasites, and decaying leaves on trees. SCHIZOPTERA, Fieber. SCHIZOPTERA FLAVIPES, Beuter. Schizoptera fiavipes, Beuter, Monogr. Ceratocomb. p. 19, no. 2, fig. 10. The original type of this species came from Bio, Brazil; but the P R O C ZOOL. SOC!-1894, No. XIV. 14 |