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Show 1893.] FROM ST. YINCENT, WEST INDIES. 709 T O M O P E L T A M U N D A , sp. nov. Reddish chestnut-brown, pubescent, punctate all over the upper surface and beneath upon the pectus. Head dull blackish ; antennae fuscous, sometimes piceous or fulvous at base, the apical joint whitish excepting at base, tips of all the joints generally whitish; rostrum fulvous, sometimes da,rker at base and tip. Pronotum rufo-castaneous on the front lobe, which is also less distinctly punctate than the other and has the lateral margin almost straight; the posterior lobe is dark brown, coarsely punctate, and has four short, yellow, longitudinal stripes; the humeral angles prominent, a little rounded, the transverse line separating the lobes deep, indented at the outer ends, and with a minute pit in the middle. Scutellum reddish brown, marked with a yellowish Y - shaped figure, which is continued on the apical carina to the tip, the hollow space each side of tip dark brown. Beneath dark ferruginous, polished, especially on the venter. Legs pale yellow, hairy, punctate, a little brownish on the coxse, base and tips of femora and tarsi. Hemelytra pale testaceous, minutely pubescent, remotely punctate with rufous or brown, middle of the costa with a small brown point; the inner apex of the corium has an irregular brown spot, which connects with the margin and runs out to a smaller spot on the extreme tip ; membrane clouded with brown, the outer border thick and pale; venter fulvous, or soiled yellow, feebly polished, the sutures blackish. Length to tip of abdomen about 2 millim.; width of base of pronotum f- millim. Several specimens of this bright little insect were captured by Mr. H . H . Smith while they were flying at sunset, in the forest, in April, at an altitude of 1000 feet above the sea. This insect bears some resemblance to the genus Brymus, Fieb., but it is much narrower than B. silvaticus, Fab., of Europe. BATHYDEMA, gen. nov. Elliptical, body deep, thicker and wider than in Peritrechus, Fieb., minutely pubescent, dull, polished only on the venter. Head short, broad, inserted against the eyes, the eyes projecting a little beyond the side of the front of pronotum. Antennae long, reaching almost to the tip of scutellum, tbe basal joint a little shorter than the head, the second longer, nearly equal to the third, the fourth much thicker, fusiform, about equal to the second in length ; rostrum reaching between the anterior coxae, not much thicker at base, the basal joint a little shorter than the throat. Pronotum trapeziform, thick, strongly sloping forwards, the lateral margin carinate through to the callous humeri; callosities prominent, long, placed obliquely ; stricture separating the lobes conspicuous only on the sides ; surface punctate, dull. Underside of head, propleura and mesopleura coarsely punctate. Anterior femora moderately thick. Scutellum small, simple, a little longer than wide, longitudinally callous at tip. Corium dull, wide, minutely |
