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Show 196 PROP. P. R. UHLER ON T H E [Mar. 6, were found on the Mirabeau estate, April 7, at an altitude of 250 feet; on the Mount Gay estate, at levels from 200 to 400, on August 21; and on the Chantilly estate, September 17, at an altitude of 500 feet. Some came to the light at night, others were taken while flying at sunset, and some others were swept from herbage in open places. BHINACLOA, Beuter. E H I N A C L O A FORTICORNIS, Beuter. Rhinacloa forticomis, Beuter, Ofv. Vetensk.-Akad. Fdrh. 1875, no. 9, p. 88. This species was found at Balthazar, St. George's, and on the Mount Gay estate in August, upon herbage growing in swampy ground. CERATOCOMBID^E. CERATOCOMBUS, Signoret. 1. CERATOCOMBUS BRASILIENSIS, Beuter. Ceratocombus brasiliensis, Beuter, Monogr. Ceratocomb. p. 7, no. 3, fig. 3. This species is common in both St. Vincent and Grenada, and it seems to have a general distribution from Brazil to tbe Antilles. Numerous specimens were collected at Balthazar, March 5, under decaying leaves on a damp rock, next the shady bank of a stream. At Woburn one specimen was found on the Windsor estate, at an elevation of 500 feet, March 28, under decaying leaves on wet sand on the shady bank of a stream. In August it was abundant on the Mount Gay estate, at an elevation of 1900 feet above the sea, in a clearing of the damp forest, with masses of brush and leaves. Individual specimens vary somewhat in the extent of the white colour near the costal margin of the hemelytra. In some of them scarcely more than a white dot is present, while in others the colour is extended into a broad streak. In a small proportion of the specimens the white is obsolete or absent. This form is closely related to, if not the same as, one which belongs to the Gulf States and Florida ; but, as only soiled specimens have been accessible to me, it is not possible to express a settled opinion as to the identity of these insects. 2. CERATOCOMBUS MINUTUS, sp. nov. Oblong-ovate, dull black ; form similar to C. brasiliensis, Beut., but small, and comparatively wider across the hemelytra. Head subconical, longer than wide, a little narrower than the apex of the pronotum, minutely pubescent, sometimes tinged with rufous, indented in the middle, with the tylus wide and prominent, and the eyes projecting beyond the sides of the pronotum ; underside of head testaceous, piceous on the tumid base of the gula, the rostrum testaceous, reaching upon the middle coxae ; antennae moderately stout, testaceous, the two apical joints slender and |
