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Show 1895.] HEMIPTEBA-HOMOPTEEA OF THE ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 67 VINCENTIA, gen. nov. Form of Cixius, Latr., and with clear wing-covers and wings. Head but a very little longer than the-eyes ; the vertex very narrow, with the carinate borders only a little higher than the eyes, bounding a deeply sunken surface, and converging to an angle in front; the front rapidly expanding in a curve to the middle, with the sides tapering to an acute point at apex of epistoma, the summit of the middle carina a little expanded, the lateral margins foliate-carinate. Pronotum very narrow in the middle, deeply triangularly emarginate like the base of the head and entering so deeply as to be almost concealed by the occiput and eyes; the marginal edge fitting against the eyes carinated. Dorsal shield of mesonotum about twice as long as wide, with straight carinate sides and triangular ends, the middle incompletely carinate and with a short ridge each side; the scutellum short, acute, set upon a broader semicircular flap which is protracted each side anteriorly out to the base of the wings. Wing-covers broad, of nearly equal width throughout, transparent, with the veins granulated as in Cixius; the costal areole long and wide, of nearly equal width throughout, followed by a narrow and very acute nodal areole, six anteapical areoles, of which the upper and lower are longer than the others and are bounded by a fork of the veins on the middle of the corium; the membrane terminating in a nearly regular curve, the apical series of areoles almost symmetrical, the four following the nodus placed obliquely. Wings with the areole next to the first apical one large, bounded at base by a transverse vein, separated at tip by a short triangular areole, the four following areoles triangular at base. Posterior tibia? with two stout spurs before the middle and another at tip, besides the crown of small teeth. Abdomen broad, depressed, carinately elevated on the tergum. VINCENTIA INTEBEUPTA, sp. nov. Chestnut-brown, paler beneath, fulvous anteriorly. Front tinged with dull fulvous; the carinate lines, sides, upper part of cheeks, and the rostrum pale yellowish. Eyes brownish black, large, suborbicular, bordered with pale yellow, deeply emarginated below. Pronotum mostly pale yellow, darker on the sides, but with all the margins yellowish. Mesonotum fulvous on the disk, bordered with yellowish; the discal carinate lines partly yellowish. Mesosternum, including the flat coxse, with a broad brown band which corresponds with the brown area of the epistoma; pleural line marked by series of angular, scale-like, pale spots. Scutellum pale at tip and on the sides. Legs clouded with smoke-brown, pale on the knees, at the ends of the tibia?, and on the ends of the tarsal joints. Wing-covers with two coalescing brown spots at base, two similar ones on the middle, also a diagonal nodal spot; the transverse veins, ends of the apical veins, costa, and two or three streaks on the posterior marginal vein brown, remainder of this vein, base of nodal spot, and veins around it pale yellowish. 5* |