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The number of moths, great and small, exceeds computation, but of them I 

 am not qualified to speak. Strongly suspecting that there must be some 

 of the minuter kinds unknown to Science, I have often regretted my inability 

 to make them an object of pursuit. I have, however, occasionally detained 

 a few of my nightly visitors when remarkable for structure or beauty, and 

 if specimens are desired by any English lepidopterist, I shall gladly 

 endeavour to secure more. 



Heteroptera. 



Of some forty or fifty species which I liave seen, the following are all at 

 present identified : — 



Leptoscelis lunata, F. Not common in Martinique. 



Spartocera moesta, F. Abundant in Martinique and Antigua. 



Lygmus aulicus, F. Common. Feeds on the Asdeplas Curasmvica (Negro 

 Ipecacuanha). Barbados, Antigua and Martinique. 



Dysdercus suturalis, F. Common. Antigua. 



Alychis cruentus [or pilosulus?}, li.-Sch. One specimen. Antigua. 



Aceratodes meditabimdus, F. Martinique. 



Pentatoma ohsoleta, Dallas. Antigua. 



Cimex prasinus, L. ? Indistinguishable from European specimens. 

 Martinique and Antigua. 



Stenopoda cinerea, Lap. Flying by night; lurks beneath stones during 

 the day. Antigua. 



Euagoras rubidus, Le P. & Serv. Common in Antigua ; may frequently 

 be seen sucking the juices of butterflies. It lays long tubular or rather 

 fusiform eggs, agglutinated in a mass to the leaves of plants ; each egg is 

 biarticulated, or furnished with a whitish cylindrical prolongation, which 

 does not contain any part of the embryo. The young scarlet larvae are 

 hatched in about eight days. 



Stagnant ponds here produce two species oi Anisops, and two of Corixa ; 

 the latter fly abundantly by night. I have also noticed the cast skins of a 

 large water-bug, probably Belostama, but the living insects were not to be 

 found. A ]iale, mealy-looking Cicada, two or three Flatoid insects, a 

 Lihurnia (perhaps saccharivora, Westw. ?), and a few minute Cicaduhi', 

 comprise the iJomoplera. 



DlPTERA. 



With the exception of Ciilex, Siinulia, and two species of ilusca, Diptera 

 are exceedingly scarce in the islands I have visited. In Martinique the 

 so-called mosquitoes {CuUces) are nearly absent, so that the inhabitants sleep 

 without the protection of gauze curtains, while in Antigua those insect- 

 furies never cease from harassing. Probably the rapid mountain-streams of 



