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Show 189L] OP ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES. 157 B. Descriptions of New Genera and Species. Fam. A N T H O C O R I D JE. Genus LASIOCHILUS. LASIOCHILUS PICTUS, sp. nov. In form similar to L. nebulosus, Uhler, but somewhat narrower, with the head a little more tapering. Above pale rufo-flavous and testaceous, beneath pale rufo-piceous. Head moderately short, rufo-testaceous, minutely rugulose in front, with a triangular impressed line between the eyes, near which the surface is slightly granulated ; the neck is a little swollen, highly polished, slightly wider than the space between the eyes, bounded in front by an impressed line with some punctures ; the front narrower and longer than the neck, with the sutures bounding the tylus deeply defined ; antennae moderately slender, not setaceous, testaceous, a little dusky, the second joint much the longest, a little thicker towards the tip, the third joint much more slender, a little shorter than the fourth, which is a little thicker than it; rostrum pale fuscous, slender, reaching as far as the middle coxse. Pronotum trapezoidal, wider than long, with the lateral oblique margin pale testaceous, reflexed, with the anterior angle a little rounded; surface rufo-testacous, polished, remotely pubescent, the callosity of the anterior lobe long, convexly prominent; collum scarcely projecting beyond the side of the head, narrow, but distinct; the posterior lobe large, punctate, the punctures continuing forward on the sides, the posterior margin hardly sinuated, with the humeral angles callous, pale, and acute. Scutellum pale reddish brown, depressed and punctate behind the middle. Hemelytra pale testaceous, minutely pubescent, closely punctate except upon the posterior part of the corium ; the cuneal portion smoke-brown, but darker exteriorly, and dull testaceous on the costal border ; posterior margin of the corium also brown; membrane soiled whitish. Legs dusky testaceous. Venter clouded with dusky brown, a little paler exteriorly, the posterior margins of the segments fringed with yellowish hairs, and most of the ventral surface spread with fine yellowish pubescence. Length to tip of abdomen 2 millim.; width of base of pronotum | millim. One or two specimens were found on the leeward side of St. Vincent, and others were taken in the island of Grenada. Fam. CERATOCOMBIDJE. Genus SCHIZOPTERA, Fieber. SCHIZOPTERA SCUTELLATA, sp. nov. In form similar to S. rutteri, Beuter, but with the membrane more tapering posteriorly. Subconic-ovate, black, opaque, minutely pubescent, with a broad orange band covering the clavus, except |