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Show 1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OP GRENADA. 211 member dark piceous, wrinkled and armed with a small process at tip. The anterior femora closely spined beneath, the tibiae with a few remote long teeth ; middle and posterior femora unarmed, having a dark band next the tip, the corresponding tibiae slender and simple. Hemelytra smoke-brown throughout, with the veins darker. Tergum rufous, infuscated on the middle; the venter highly polished, obscure luteous. Length to tip of venter 5 m m . ; width of pronotum 1 m m . Only a single specimen ( $ ) was obtained. It was found at Balthazar, at an elevation of 250 feet above the sea, on March 18, in second growth, and was beaten from vines. ONCEROTRACHELUS, Stal. ONCEROTRACHELUS CONFORMIS, sp. nov. Pusco-luteous,pubescent. Form narrowerthan O.acuminatus,Say. Head behind the eyes suborbicular, polished, minutely denticulated beneath ; eyes black, large, round, coarsely granulated, carried a little above the surface of the front; rostrum reaching to the posterior end of the anterior coxae, bristly rather than denticulated beneath the joints, the basal joint as long as the head; antennae pale fuscous, set with erect bristly hairs, the basal joint about as long as the head, pronotum, and scutellum united. Pronotum clothed anteriorly with erect hairs, darker on the anterior lobe ; the posterior lobe almost bald above, highly polished, with the latero-posterior margin callous, erect, pale testaceous, and ending above in a tooth; the posterior margin pale, a little sinuated each side and marked with a short suture behind each sinus. Scutellum with a pale, scarcely elevated, spine at the apex. Legs pale f usco-testaceous, distinctly pubescent. Hemelytra a little narrower than the posterior part of the abdomen; the clavus and costal margin pale yellowish, the rest of the surface dusky. Underside, including the venter, with an uneven stripe each side extending from the propleura to the tip of the venter. Length to tip of venter 4 m m . ; width of pronotum scarcely 1 mm. Three specimens were captured at Balthazar, April 1 and August 6-10, at an elevation of 250 feet above the sea. They came to the light at night. This species is very closely related to 0. acuminatus, Say; it differs, however, in being narrower and smaller, in having erect sharp-pointed humeri, and in the absence of the stouter teeth on the surface of the basal joint of the rostrum. EMESIDH. STENOLEMUS, Signoret. STENOLEMUS, sp. ? A larva of this genus was taken at Balthazar. |