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Show 1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OF GRENADA. 183 St. Vincent, Porto Bico, San Domingo, and Cuba, and from thence it extends through Florida into all of the Eastern States as far as Maine. Possibly it is the most variable species of the group as yet discovered, for it appears in all states of marking and colouring, from the pale testaceous with few spots to the dark grey with all degrees of clouding and specking. In Grenada specimens were taken at Balthazar, in open weedy places on herbage, April 3, at an altitude of 250 feet; also on the Lake Antoine estate, April 13, at an altitude of 350 feet, on the shores of a stream in the midst of second-growth timber, and in August at various other localities on the island. 2. NYSIUS IN^EQUALIS, sp. nov. Subovate, broad, a little more robust than A", californicus, Stal. Pale dull fulvous, punctate with fuscous yellowish pubescence. Head subacute, a little longer than wide, fulvous, with a pale hne stretching from base to end of tylus ; inner border against the eyes pale yellow, followed by a wider black stripe, the antenniferous lobe also pale yellow ; gula black along the middle; antennae dull fulvous, the basal joint blackish on the under surface at tip, the second joint longer than the third, tipped with black, the apical joint blackish, a little longer than the third ; bucculae pale ; the rostrum more or less fuscous, reaching to the middle coxae. Pronotum trapeziform, obliquely narrowing towards the apex, the sides not arcuated, with the margin feebly reflexed, the anterior lobe short, with the transverse incisure carried out to the excavation next the margin, but not through it; the surface distinctly and closely punctate, having a pale callous line each side of the middle throughout its length ; the disk often infuscated, the middle line grooved, having a pale callosity on its posterior end at the margin, apex before the callous line deeply sunken, the lateral submargin grooved and lineated with fuscous; humeri with an acute knob, behind which the margin is indented ; the posterior margin thick, deflexed, arched, a little scalloped; the posthumeral outer edge pale and feebly expanded. Under surface rufo-fulvous, whitish pubescent, having an interrupted blackish line along the sides, the sternum and base of venter blackish, and the venter mostly fulvous, with the black lines continued along the sides. The legs dull fulvous, pale at base, flecked with brown on the femora, the base and tip of the tibiae and tarsi more or less fuscous. Scutellum transverse, punctate, pubescent, blackish at base, or each side of middle, the middle line and lateral raised margin pale testaceous, the apex carinate, acute on the tip. Hemelytra pale testaceous or whitish, carried back in a long tapering curve ; the veins more or less interrupted with brown, as also the apical and outer border of the clavus and posterior border of the corium; apex of the cuneus darker brown; the costal area narrow^, pale, with outer edge strongly reflexed ; membrane long and narrow, the veins often marked with long smoky spots, the middle to tip with a> long 13* |