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Show 1895.] HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTEBA OF T H E ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 73 SCABPOSA TUMIDA, sp. nOV. General form of Ormenis, but tumid at the base of the wing-covers, with the costal region expanded in a wide curve, greenish. Head above with an obscure brown broad stripe which is carried back upon the mesonotum, the lateral raised margins highly polished, pale fulvous; front with a brown cloud above, pale testaceous below and including the clypeus; rostrum reaching to the posterior coxa?. Pronotum greenish yellow on the sides; mesonotum dull testaceous each side, with the two callosities dark brown. Beneath and legs tawny yellow. Wing-covers greenish, the inner ridge and margin of the clavus, besides a streak near its tip and the granules near the tip, blackish ; corium in the angle behind base of costa, a spot at and broad stripe beyond on the the inner area, a broad less distinct band across the middle including the veins, a bent diagonal stripe running back from the lower angle of the apex, the almost truncate margin of the apex, one or two spots near the upper angle, and the granules of the costal area black or dark brown. Outer border of the venter red. Length to tip of abdomen 5-5| m m . ; length to tip of wing-covers 7-8 m m . This genus comes next to Cyarda in its general features, but the venation of the wing-covers is more open, varied, and simple, and the narrowed apex is not much protracted. Two specimens were secured on the island. One of these lacks the broad band across the middle of the wing-covers. The acute knob near the base of the radial area is more prominent in the female than in the male. ACANONIA SEBVILLEI, Spin. Three specimens, of somewhat smaller size than the average of those from Florida aud Cuba, were collected on the leeward side of the island. Fam. J ASS ID JE. XEEOPHLCSA VIEIDIS, Fabr. Five specimens were taken on the island by Mr. H . H . Smith. This and the following species were determined by Mr. W . H. Ashmead. XEEOPHLCSA GEISEA, Germar. Four specimens of this insect were captured on the island. These insects are so variable, and our knowledge of them is so insufficient at present, that there is no settled standard by which to gauge the species. I am in doubt as to this being the true X. c/risea as described by Germar, and figured by Burmeister in his ' Genera Insect.' The figure is that of a species with more acute and longer head, and with an absence of most of the markings present in the species from St, Vincent, |