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Show 1893.] FROM ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES. 713 of this genus. It seems to be closely related to Agalliastes, but is without the saltatorial hind femora, and it differs from that genus in the details given above. In a few specimens the pronotum has simply a narrow black band across the base. Genus MELINNA, Uhler. M E L I N N A M I N U T A , sp. nov. Narrower than usual, with the sides parallel, the surface highly polished, dull dark horn-brown, relieved with pale yellowish testaceous. Head particularly convex, very highly polished, with a few obsolete punctures on the crown, dull pale yellowish, with the middle broadly piceous and the tylus dusky; the occiput contracted, narrower than the collum of the pronotum, but the space between the eyes wider than the front of the pronotum ; eyes brown, large, most prominent laterally, almost spherical. Antennae moderately stout, horn-brown, the second joint pale at base, reaching from the front of eye to basal angle of pronotum, becoming gradually a little thicker towards the outer end, the third joint abruptly thinner and with the fourth continuing of the same thickness throughout; both of these joints pale yellow, hairy ; rostrum slender, yellowish white, reaching behind the anterior coxae. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, obsoletely punctate, with the lateral margins very oblique, a little sinuated, with the edge moderately acute, but not carinated, and the humeral angles prominent, the posterior margin hardly sinuated, the border a little rolled and turned down. Scutellum minutely, obsoletely punctate, concolorous with the thorax and hemelytra, and polished like them, convex, pinched at the tip. Legs, coxae, and ovipositor ivory-white. Hemelytra polished like the pronotum, minutely golden pubescent, minutely obsoletely punctate; the costal border straight, honey-yellow; the incisure of the cuneus and inner edge of the same pale ; membrane a little dusky, darker at base. Venter chestnut-brown, polished, a little paler at tip. Length to tip of venter lf-2 millim.; width of pronotum -£ of a mdlim. Similar to M. elongata, Uhl., but with a nick behind the eyes. Two specimens are present in the collection and a fragment of a third adheres to the card of another pin. Two specimens were obtained in the wooded country at an altitude of 1000 feet above sea-level, and a third was beaten from bushes in the Petit Bordelle Valley at an altitude of 1600 feet above the sea. Another small species, coarsely punctate, apparently belonging to this same genus, was obtained, but the only specimen present is too imperfect for description. Genus LYGUS, auctor. LYGUS OBTUSUS, sp. nov. Soiled pale green, polished, minutely pubescent, with the head short and blunt as seen from aboye and closely pressed against the 48* |