of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. 53 



genus Xylocopa. Eecorded from the islands of San 

 Domingo, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, and Barbados ; the 

 Barbados insect, however, is probably referable to 

 H. auriculata. Champ. 



Tbteaonyx. 



Tetraonyx, Latreille, in Humb. et Bonpl., Obs. Zool., i., 

 p. 160 (1811). 



Tetraonyx quadrimaculatus. 



Ajpalus quadrimaculatus, Fabr., Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 50. 

 Tetraonyx quadrimaculatus, Lee, Proc. Acad. Phil., vi., 



p. 344 ; Haag, Stett. ent. Zeit., 1879, p. 308 ; 



Fleut. et Salle, Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr., 1889, p. 433. 



Kab. St. Vincent — South end and Windward side ; 

 Grenada — Mount Gay Estate, on the Leeward side. 



Three specimens. Also inhabits the Southern United 

 States, and the islands of St. Thomas and Guadeloupe, but 

 not yet recorded from Central America. 



ZONITIS. 



Zonitis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., p. 126 (1775). 



Zonitis lineata, n. sp. 

 Elongate, broad, parallel, dull, finely pubescent ; luteous or 

 flavo-luteous ; the eyes, the tips of the mandibles, the palpi, and 

 antennae black, the latter with the extreme base of each joint 

 testaceous ; the elytra variable in colour — fuscous or fusco-testa- 

 ceous, with the sutural and lateral margins, the apex, and a line or 

 stripe down the middle of the disc flavo-luteous— fusco-testaceous, 

 with a darker patch at the base — flavo-luteous, with two spots at the 

 base and a streak on the disc towards the apex fuscous— or entirely 

 flavo-luteous ; the tips of the femora, and the tibife and tarsi, 

 black or piceous. Head densely punctured, the punctures very 

 ■fine on the vertex, the interocular space with a few coarse scattered 

 punctures only, a narrow space down the middle impunctate ; the 

 eyes large, transverse, coarsely granulated, separated by a space 

 about half the width of the eye as seen from above ; antennfe very 

 elongate, slender, filiform, joints 2 and 3 subequal in length. 

 Prothorax a little broader than long, as wide as the head, rapidly 



