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Show 58 PEOF. P. B. UHLEE-ENUMEEATION OF THE [Jan. 15, ACITTALIS TEIFUBCATA, Godg. Canad. Ent. xxvi. p. 53. Cited as from St. Vincent. Coll. H. H. Smith. ACITTALIS APICALIS, Godg. Canad. Ent. xxvi. p. 53. Reported as from the same island by the writer quoted above. SPONGOPHOBITS ALBOFASCIATUS, Godg. Canad. Ent. xxv. p. 54. Also cited as from St. Vincent. SPONGOPHOBITS VEXILLIFEBUS, Godg. Canad. Ent. xxv. p. 53. Likewise cited as from St. Vincent. BOLBONOTA BISPINIFEEA, Godg. Canad. Ent. xxv. p. 55. Reported as belonging to the collection made in St. Vincent by Mr. H. H. Smith. MONOBELUS FASCIATUS, Fabr. Ent. Syst., Suppl. p. 515. no. 33. This is a very variable species which is widely distributed in the Antilles. I have examined specimens from Cuba, Jamaica, San Domingo, St. Vincent, and Grenada. Fam. CEECOPID^: TOMASPIS PICTIPENNIS, Stal, Stettin, ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 63 The more typical form of this species is common in Mexico in the vicinity of Orizaba. Only one specimen is in the collection from St. Vincent, but several others are in that from the island of Grenada. It is more variable and abnormally coloured in these Lesser Antilles than we have seen it to be in Mexican specimens. Fam. FULGOBID^E. DICTYOPHAEA EMAEGINATA, sp. nov. Pale green, long oval, with the cephalic prolongation a little curved upwards, scarcely twice as long as the pronotum, a little curved on the sides, hardly wider at base than on the middle, with the npper surface flat, carinated on the outer margins and on the middle line, with the base of the middle carina forming a A, the tip subconical with curving sides; base of head triangularly emarginated ; front with thick carinate margins and a prominent carina along its entire length; eyes a little angular, nearly bean-shaped, brownish when dried ; rostrum reaching to the posterior coxse. Pronotum short, triangularly produced into base of head, the base emarginated almost as acutely as the head, with the middle line interruptedly carinate. Mesonotum feeblv convex very strongly tricarinate. The posterior tibise with three spines exteriorly. Hemelytra almost opaque, with the costal margin broadly curved; the veins few and straight, with five long areoles |