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Show 70 PBOF. P. B. UHLEB-ENUMEEATION OF THE [Jan. 15, tawny, convex, carinate on the middle and impressed each side thereof, the scutellum with an orange spot at the base, a large reddish one next the inferior apical angle, a long white spot back of the disk marked with four black dots, a faint streak on the costa beyond the middle, a more distinct short band nearer the apex, another, more oblique, next the apex, and a few traces on the apex more or less black, the veins mostly white; in front of the white spot one or two black specks are usually present. Wings clear white. Legs ivory-white, the anterior tibia? and tarsi a little dusky. Underside and venter whitish, powdered; tergum dull yellow, powdered with white. Length to end of abdomen 3 mm.; expanse of wing-covers 9 mm. Six specimens of this brightly marked species were collected by Mr. H . H . Smith, near Kingstown and in other parts of the island. PBOSOTEOPIS, gen. nov. Robust, in form of body similar to Cercopis. Head with the eyes hardly one half as wide as the pronotum, the vertex a little longer than wide, feebly carinated each side, the eyes large, round, and closely enclosing the vertex; the front long and wide, the sides broadly curving and distinctly carinated, the middle line also carinated; clypeus broad at base, with thick margins there, then acutely tapering to tip, the surface less prominent than the front; rostrum reaching to the middle coxse. Antenna? stout, moderately short. Pronotum transverse, a little shorter than the head, a little arched, the base almost straight. Mesonotum large, convex, much wider than long, with the scutellum triangular and almost equally long, and the margins recurved. Wing-covers wide, obliquely narrowing towards base on the inferior side ; veins few and mostly wide apart; the costal area wide, long, and growing wider towards the tip, which is bounded by a transverse oblique vein and crossed farther inwards by two veins which are oblique in the opposite direction; the apical series of areoles begins beyond the nodus with a large subtrapezoidal areole -with a curved inner vein, the next outwards smaller with the inner angle acutely curved, the following one is triangular, shorter and smaller; the middle areole is very long and narrow, after this is a triangular areole, followed by a very long, curved, nearly wedge-shaped one, and on the inferior margin the areole is curved triangular, with the point directed against the tip of the clavus; the anteapical series is designated by two cells with curved veins. Abdomen broad moderately convex, wider than thick. PBOSOTEOPIS DECOEATA, sp. nov. General colour fulvous, marked with large areas of dark brown. Head rather close set against the thorax, moderately convex dull fulvous, the base prominently reflexed, with two indented points |