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Show 1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OP GRENADA. 207 armed beneath with two series of fine teeth; the middle ones scarcely longer than the anterior, also thicker in the middle ; the tibiae all filiform, very slender. Hemelytra a little narrowed in the middle, with the membrane long, bluntly rounded at tip, and a little notched on the outer margin at base ; the discoidal areole very large, with the apical veins very slender, radiating like the rays of a fan. VELIDIA BERYTOIDES, sp. nov. Long, subcylindrical, griseo-fuscous, wudest at the base of the pronotum. Head highly polished, black at base and between the eyes, the face, cheeks, and rostrum yellow; the antennas dusky testaceous, annulated with black at the ends of the joints, and with a white band at the base of third and fourth joints, the basal joint with a broader black band a little way behind the tip. Pronotum greyish testaceous; the posterior lobe strongly punctate, the callosities black and polished, with a groove in the middle between them; the collum in front of these polished, yellow ; the intra-humeral and the posterior border black, with the edge yellow; the pleural flaps punctate, pale yellow; humeri with a small whitish callosity in the angle. Scutellum mostly greyish yellow, with the apical point white. Legs yellow, all the femora with a black band before the tip, and the middle and posterior pairs, especially, marked with about three narrow black bands ; the tips of tibiae and of tarsi also black, Venter smooth, dull fulvo-testaceous, with a large black spot each side of base and the last two segments mostly black. Length to tip of venter 2\ m m . ; width of pronotum § m m. Only one specimen was obtained. It wTas found at Balthazar, on April 27, at an elevation of 250 feet above tide-level, near the shady bank of a stream ; beaten from a mass of bush and decaying leaves. ALLOSORHYNCHUS, Fieber. ALLGEORHYNCHUS ARMATUS, sp. nov. Form similar to that of A. fiavipes, Fieb., but rather narrower, invested with erect pubescence. Colour above mostly piceous black ; abdomen, underside of body, and the legs honey-yellow, more or less tinged with piceous. Head short, black, highly polished, rufo-piceous from the eyes forward, tbe width across the eyes but little more than the front of the pronotum ; antennae slender, the basal joint hardly longer than the head, dull yellow, darker on the base and tip, hairy; the second fully twice as long, hairy, about as stout as the basal one, dusky; the apical joints long, much more slender, pubescent, fuscous; rostrum honey-yellow, reaching upon the middle coxae, tbe base stout, following which the next joint is thick and extends behind the middle of the prosternum, the following one is compressed and shorter. Pronotum campanuliform, highly polished, deep black, with a row of coarse, remote punctures along |