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entire series before us from Jamaica are all very similar, in size 

 and coloration, to the pair measured above. 



Coloration. — General coloration Sanford's brown to argus brown 

 and chestnut; usually weakly suffused, Sanford's brown. Head 

 slightly paler, with occiput to below the ocelli blackish tinged 

 with bay. Ocelli warm buff. Pronotum of general coloration, 

 occasionally slightly paler laterad. Tegmina translucent and of 

 general coloration, but with portion of dextral tegmen concealed 

 when at rest, becoming rather gradually transparent, very w^eakly 

 tinged with brown. Wings hyaline with veins weakly tinged 

 with brown, embrowned in area of costal veins and to a less de- 

 gree in the distal portion of the anterior field. Limbs buffy, 

 often tinged with ochraceous orange. Ventral surface of abdo- 

 men proximad of the same color, rapidly shading through chest- 

 nut to blackish brown distad ; this individually varying in extent 

 and intensity and usually more decided in the female sex. 



Though the series l:)efore us shows no striking differences in 

 coloration, our material of rufa occidentalis indicates that proba- 

 bly very decided individual color differences will be fovmd also 

 in the present race. 



Specimens Examined: 38; 14 males, 16 females and 8 immature individuals. 



Montego Bay, St. James Parish, Jamaica, III, 4 and 5, 1911, (J. A. Gross- 

 be<'k; under dried cocoanut palm petioles in grassy area), 19,1 juv. $ , [A. 'M. 

 N. H.]; X, 29 to XI, 4, 1913, (Hebard; under logwood on docks, under litter 

 on limestone and near beach), 5 cf , 5 9 , 3 juv. c?, 1 juv. 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



Palm Beach, Montego Baj^ Jamaica, III, 17, 1911, (J.' A. Grossbeck; under 

 logs), 1 9, [A. M. N. H.]. 



Mandeville, Manchester Parish, Jamaica, 2100 feet, XI, G, 1913, (Hebard; 

 under logs in upland pasture), 3 9,1 juv. cT, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Sanchez, San Domingo, V, 11 to 16, 1915, (F. E. Watson; about street light), 

 1 cf , [A. M. N. H.]. 



Arecibo, Arecibo, Porto Rico, late VII, 1914, (F. E. Watson; under stones 

 in cultivated area), 1 d', [A. M. N. H.]. 



Ensenada, Guanica Harbor, Aguadilla, Porto Rico, VI, 14 to 19, 191.5, (A. J. 

 Mutchler; under debris on alkali flat), 19,1 juv. d', [A. M. N. H.]. 



Eveques Valley, St. Croix, Dani.sh West Indies, VI, 4, 1911, (R. W. Miner), 

 1 c^, 1 9 , [A. M. N. H.]. 



Dominica, (H. M. Lefroy), Id,'' [A. N. S. P.]. 



Roseau, Dominica, VII, 3, 1911, (Crampton and Lutz), 1 d, [A. M. N. H.]. 



Barbados, VII, 17, 1903, (H. A. Ballou), 1 9 ,'" [A. N. S. P.]. 



1' Recorded by Rehn as Ischnoptera occidentalis. 

 '^ Recorded by Rehn as Ischnoptera occidentalis. 



TRAN.S. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



