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Show 194 PROF. P. R. UHLER ON T H E [Mar. 6, the Antilles, Texas, and Florida. In San Domingo it lives on various kinds of weeds growing on the sides of the roads and in neglected gardens. Numerous specimens were collected on both sides of Grenada. On the Mount Gay estate they were found, late in August, on herbage in the open country. At St. George's they were taken during the same month, at night, from herbage. DICYPHUS, Fieber. DlCYPHUS SEPARATUS, Sp. nOV. Long and moderately narrow, pale greenish, erect-pubescent, with the basal joint and apex of the second joint of antennae black ; punctures of the hemelytra coarse, sparse, black; corium with a large black dot a little behind the apex, with the apex, the posterior border faintly, the tip of scutellum, and the end of the cuneus also black. Head moderately short, highly polished, remotely pubescent; eyes dark brown; antennae pale green, minutely pubescent, a little longer than from tip of head to apex of clavus; rostrum testaceous, dusky at tip, reaching almost to the apex of the posterior coxae. Pronotum obsoletely punctate, marked with a deeply-impressed longitudinal line, the posterior margin deeply sinuated. Legs pale greenish, with the apex of the tarsi piceous. Scutellum a little punctate, set with erect hairs. Corium and clavus with remote erect fuscous pubescence ; cuneus minutely striato-punctate, long, sinuated on the inner border; the membrane long, iridescent, with the veins of the areole a little dusky. Length to tip of abdomen 3 mm., to tip of membrane 4 mm.; width of pronotum g m m . This species extends its habitat from Cambridge, Mass., to Florida and Texas ; it is also found in California. Six specimens of this insect were taken on the Mount Gay estate, October 16, on low herbage. PARACARNUS, Dist. PARACARNUS MEXICANUS, Dist. Paracarnus mexicanus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Hem.-Het. p. 445, pi. 39. tig. 2. This species was captured at Balthazar, March 23, in a cocoa orchard in a damp situation. On the Mirabeau estate it was found March 25, on herbage near a stream of water. ANNONA, Dist. ANNONA LABECULATA, Dist. Annona labeculata, Dist. t. c. p. 446, pi. 39. fig. One specimen was found near Balthazar, March 23, in a shady damp locality, on herbage, in a cocoa orchard. |