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Show 174 PROP. P. R. UHLER ON T H E [Mar. 6, quite variable in size and sometimes lacks the red band on the base of the pronotum. In Grenada it was taken on the Lake Antoine estate, March 24 and April 13, at an elevation of 350 feet above sea-level, on herbage in open places. It was also found on the Mount Gay estate and at St. George's, in August. 3. THYANTA CASTA, Stal. Thyanta casta, Stal, Stettin, ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 104. This species was taken on the Mount Gay estate, in smaller numbers than the preceding one, and it was beaten from herbage, August 1, in open places. It was also found on the Lake Antoine estate, March 24, on herbage, and in thickets near the sea. CRATO, Dist. C R A T O URBICUS, Dist. Crato urbicus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Hem.-Heter., Suppl. p. 457, pi. 39. fig. 22. Only two specimens of this insect were secured; they were beaten from herbage, at night, in open places, August 22, on the Mount Gay estate. B A N A S A , Stal. B A N A S A LENTICULARIS, sp. nov. Form similar to B. packardii, Stal, but more convex above, especially upon the pronotum ; longer oval than the related B. imbuta, Distant. Pale green, more or less rufous upon the pronotum, base of head, coriaceous part of hemelytra, and posterior border of the scuteUum highly polished. The head, pronotum, and corium set with remote erect bristles, most of the remaining surface minutely pubescent. Head a little longer than wide, irregularly and remotely, finely punctate, the surface uneven, depressed next the base of tylus, often paler at base and near the eyes. Antenna? more or less rufous, remotely pubescent, the second joint much shorter than the third, the fourth sometimes infuscated; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae, green, black at tip. Pronotum unusually convex in the female, somewhat less so in the male; the lateral margins retiexed, impunctate, ivory-white, hardly sinuated, the humeral angles a little prominent, with the outer margin curved and the surface near it tumid; the surface generally coarsely, remotely, deeply punctate, the punctures partly arranged in transverse, curved, broken lines; the margin, bounded behind by a line of punctures, behind the eyes reflexed, and the angles outside the eyes produced into a small tooth; the posterior margin a very little arcuated, with the edge most slenderly reflexed, and the posthumeral margin sinuated, with the submargin depressed. Scutellum very remotely, coarsely punctate, the punctures becoming denser and finer along the sides, with the apex narrow, pale, almost flat, and nearly impunctate. |