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Show 1893.] FROM ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES. 707 and almost straight veins, the one next the outer apex forked. Posterior femora bent, stout, projecting about one-fourth of their length beyond the end of venter, armed beneath with series of short and longer teeth, which are set closer and arranged in a double series on the apical half. DARMISTIDUS MACULATUS, sp. nov. Pale testaceous, shaded and flecked with fuscous. Closely related to Stachyocnemis, but with a longer head and less robust figure, and destitute of the pilous covering of the head and pronotum. Head obsoletely punctate, minutely pubescent, with the longitudinal middle line slender and faintly defined; the crown and the surface at the ocelli marked with fuscous ; throat pale testaceous ; antennae pale fulvous, the basal joint darker; rostrum piceous at tip and along the middle line. Pronotum either testaceous or pale fulvous, marked with dark brown dots, minutely, remotely pubescent, closely punctate and somewhat granulate, with the central line pale and the callosities dark brown; the humeral prominences and the posterior submargin usually brown, with the edge paler; the sternum pale and the pleural pieces darker and punctate. Legs sprinkled with reddish brown; the tibiae pale testaceous, banded with a few dark brown, slender lines; tarsi with the last joint, nails, and tip of the long basal joint blackish. Scutellum remotely punctate, granulate, fuscous at base, and white on the apex and subapical carinate border. Hemelytra thin, translucent, greenish white, or pale fulvo-testaceous, with the veins interruptedly rufo-castaneous, and the thick end of the medial vein, apex of the clavus, and border at tips of corium piceous black; membrane whitish, with the veins minutely and faintly marked with rufous. Tergum with a broad black stripe along the middle, which grows narrower towards the tip ; venter pale, smooth, minutely, transversely wrinkled, a little punctate on the middle and at base. Length to tip of venter 6|-7 millim.; width of base of pronotum lf-2 mdlim. Four specimens, one without a head. Pam. BERYTiDiE* P R O T A C A N T H U S , gen. nov. Porm of Metacanthus, Pieb., with the same tumidly convex head and conically produced clypeus. Eyes subspherical, set laterally and below the line of the vertex ; ocelli placed far behind the eyes on a collum-like distinct lobe. Antennae long and slender, the basal joint longest, not quite so long as the posterior femur, but longer than the two following joints united, minutely clavate at tip ; the second and third joints subequal, still more slender; the apical joint shorter than the third, slender, fusiform. Eostrum slender, reaching to the posterior coxae, with the basal joint not quite so long as the head. Pronotum short and stout, scarcely |
