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Show 1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OF GRENADA. 189 were alighting from the air. Others were found on the Mount Gay estate, August 20-25, under piles of weeds and leaves. EHAPTUS, Stal. BHAPTUS COLLINUS, Dist. Rhaptus collina, Dist. t. c. p. 410, pi. 36. fig. 3. Seven specimens of this insect were found on the Mount Gay estate, where they were either beaten from herbage in open places or taken from beneath piles of weeds and leaves. MELANOCORYPHUS, Stal. MELANOCORYPHUS BICRUCIS (Say). Lygceus bicrucis, Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. iv. 1825, p. 322. Four specimens of this common North-American insect were taken on the Mount Gay estate, August 21-26, on herbage. ONCOPELTUS, Stal. 1. ONCOPELTUS FASCIATUS (Dallas). Lygceus fasciatus, Dallas, List, iv. p. 538. Five specimens were found on the Mount Gay estate, August 26 and 30. They were beaten from herbage on an open flat tract near the sea. 2. ONCOPELTUS CINGULIPER, Stal. Oncopeltus (Erythrischius) cingulifer, Stal, Enum. Hemipt. pt. 1874, p. 103. Numerous specimens were collected at Balthazar, March 7 and April 2, from herbage in second-growth woods. One specimen was secured at Granville, March 27 ; another was found on the Mount Gay estate, April 5, on herbage; and another at the same place on August 26. 3. ONCOPELTUS YARICOLOR (Fabr.). Lygceus varicolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. p. 149. A few specimens of this beautiful species were found at Balthazar and other places in April, on open places upon herbage. One was also found on the Lake Antoine estate, another on the Mirabeau estate, and yet another was found at Windsor, on the windward side of the island, March 28, on herbage in an open area at an elevation of 500 feet above the sea. P Y R R H O C O R I D M. DYSDERCUS, Am. et S. DYSDERCUS ANNULIGER, sp. nov. Form of D. suturellus, H.-Schf., and differing from that species |
