OF WASHINGTON. 515 



side of the mesonotum, and brown specks appear on the side of the cheeks 

 before the eye. 



Length to end of abdomen 7-7^ mm. To tip of hemelytra 10-11 mm. 

 Width of mesonotum 2j mm. 



This may be a form of Eiidiptera punctifera Walk., Brit. 

 Mus. Cat. Homopt. SuppL, p. 71 or his E. punctata ib. Vol. I, 

 p. 332, but the descriptions do not fit any of the specimens that I 

 have examined. 



Common on small logwood trees in San Domingo and Hayti, 

 in February, March, April, May ; also found in Cuba and 

 Florida. 



Ormenis, Stal. 

 O. robusta, new sp. 



Short and stout, plumbeous, clouded with black. Vertex very short, 

 depressed across the middle, truncated at the anterior margin, front 

 nearly twice as long as wide, carinated each side, with a groove between 

 the lines and the outer covered margin, the middle and outer margin ob 

 scured with blackish, with the apex broadly pale, clypeus long, acutely 

 triangular, pale, carinated on the middle line. Pronotum sublunate, turned 

 up at tip, widely entering and overlapping the vertex, pale brownish, 

 transversely indented before the apex, the sides narrow, carried down, 

 sunken under the eyes and with the edge reflexed, mesonotum broadly 

 sublunate, elevated on the forward portion, carinated on the middle 

 line, dark brown on the sides outside the lateral carinse of dorsal 

 shield, scutellum acutely triangular, elevated, with the margins promi 

 nently carinated. Hemelytra broad, pale dull yellowish, the humeral 

 costal angle broad, ovally rounded, inner field of the cuneus ribbed and 

 coarsely granulate in diagonal rows, veins mostly black, coarse, those 

 next the membrane partly reticulate, thinner, areoles of the disk mostly 

 quadrangular, membrane a little widened next the tip, the apical border 

 sinuated, carrying a row of pale dots, with the upper angle broadly 

 rounded and the lower angle less rounded. Tibiae obsoletely clouded 

 with fuliginous, tarsi dark Underside of body testaceous, covered with 

 white bloom. 



Length to end of abdomen \\ mm. To apex of hemelytra 6? mm. 

 Width of mesonotum 2 mm. 



I have examined two females belonging to the collection of Mr. 

 E. D. Ball, from Port an Prince, Haiti, February, and others 

 were secured near Samana Bay, San Domingo. 



