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than wide, almost truncated at the summit, the sides curving wider 

 towards the clypeus which completes the curve and tapers to the tip, the 

 margins slenderly elevated and the middle line with a blunt carina, which 

 continues on to the rostrum, the clypeus less than one-half the length of 

 the front, cheeks narrow and long. Pronotum short, almost crescent- 

 shaped, with the central shield triangular, bounded by raised lines and 

 let into the base of the head ; mesonotum about twice as long as the pre 

 ceding, with the dorsal shield bluntly triangular, bounded by raised lines, 

 and having a middle carina. Propleura wide, almost triangular, with a 

 large hole near the middle, segments behind this each with a black, de 

 pressed spot Scutellum very small. Hemelytra not long, bluntly 

 curved, almost transparent, all the nervures set with raised granules, and 

 the intervals with rows of raised points. Costal areole wide, but a little 

 shorter than the others of this series, the three innermost about equal in 

 length, the interpolated one long cuneiform, the ante-apical series short, 

 six in number, the one on either side very short, apical series moderately 

 short, narrow, the exterior ones on both borders curved, twelve in num 

 ber. Posterior femora with two spines behind the middle. Ocellus on 

 middle of front. 



T. tetrastichus, new sp. 



Pale green, the face deep green with the middle carina orange, the 

 lateral margins of entire head more or less yellow, occiput with two 

 black spots, diagonal lines of the mesonotal shield orange. Veins of 

 hemelytra stout, sometimes a little dusky, spaces between the veins 

 granulate in lines, transverse veins of membrane and wings and a sub- 

 apical series of spots dark brown. Spines and nails of feet piceous 

 Pleural pieces with a black dot in middle of first three. Length to apex 

 of abdomen 3 mm. Length to tip of wing covers 4^ mm. Width of 

 hemelytra 2 mm. 



A male and female from Port au Prince, Hayti, are in the 

 collection of Mr. E. D. Ball. December. 



Div. FLATIDA. 

 Dascalia, Stal. 



D. guttata, new sp. 



Pale greenish testaceous, pruinose, marked with four black spots on the 

 posterior curve of the pronotum, with an oblique series of three, and one 

 exterior, before the middle of the corium, with a sprinkled series near the 

 inner border, with numerous points of the same color remotely distributed 

 between the middle and costal area, and with a geminate series of specks 

 on the costal margin which is continued near the outer margin of the 

 apex of membrane, a zigzag curved band of the same color also a little 

 further inwards. Vertex short, subtriangular, uneven, with two trans 

 verse series of black points ; front almost flat, not much longer than wide, 



