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Show 206 PROP. P. R. UHLER ON T H E [Mar. 6, pale piceous. Pronotum marked with a narrow fuscous line on the middle, which becomes double on the anterior lobe ; each side of this several short streaks of the same colour are distributed over the surface, and on the humeri and nearer the middle are two short, faint stripes of fuscous ; posterior margin decurved, with the extreme edge whitish. Legs pale testaceous sprinkled with fuscous, with a black band at tip of the middle and posterior femora, and a smaller black spot on the apex of the tibiae ; the tarsi and especially the nails fuscous. The scutellum and inner edge of the clavus receives the continuation of the black stripe from the middle of the pronotum. Clavus and corium striped with obscure fuscous lines, some of which border the inner edges of the strong veins ; the cuneus is also marked with a fuscous abbreviated stripe ; membrane marked with fuscous lines, most of which are confined to the veins. Meso- and metasternum piceous black, the venter pale on the middle, darker on the side, and with the connexivum marked with black, irregular spots. Genital segment of male a little clavate, subtruncate at tip, and bent back. Length to tip of venter 6-Q% m m . ; width of pronotum 1-15 m m. Numerous specimens were obtained at Balthazar, April 7 and August 15, at an altitude of 250 feet, on open wTeedy places near a stream. It was also taken at St. George's and on the Vendome estate. A few specimens were beaten from herbage at night. VELIDIA, gen. nov. Aspect of a robust Metacanthus, but a genuine Nabid, with certain elements of structure, such as a blunt vertical head aud deep pronotum, quite out of keeping with the ordinary members of this group. Head short, with a polished swollen base, which is separated from the space in front of the eyes by a transverse groove; the eyes oval, vertical, projecting but little beyond the occipital swelling ; front short, but slightly convex. Bostrum conical at base, beyond this slender and reaching upon the posterior coxae ; the tylus vertical, narrow,tapering, the cheeks also narrow. Antennae slender, the basal joint a little longer than the head; the second joint more slender, nearly twice as long as the basal one ; the third equally slender, a little longer than the second ; the fourth shorter than the second. Pronotum short, blunt, subtrapezoidal, having a recurved collum which caps the base of the head ; the anterior lobe almost entirely occupied by the smooth, swollen, transverse callosities, the lateral margins carinated along the upward curve of the callosities ; the posterior lobe high, sloping forwards, almost flat, a little wider than long, with the posterior border deflexed and the edge sinuated and reflexed ; the pleural flaps wide, almost abruptly deflexed, forming a cap, the edges widely reflexed. Scutellum sub-lunate, very short, almost covered by the pronotum, with the apex acuminate. Legs of median length, the posterior femora a little clavate at tip; the anterior pair thickest, tapering at both ends |
