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Thyanta antiguensis (Westwood) 
Plate I, Fig. 11 
1837. Pentatoma antiguensis [Westwood], Cat. Hope, Vol. I, 36. 
1851. Pentatoma taeniola Dallas, List Hem., Vol. 1, 250. 
1894. Thyanta taeniola Uhler, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 173. 
We have about twenty-five examples of this species from 
Antigua only, taken on June 11 and 21, and on July 1, 8 and 
12. Seven of the specimens are of a distinctly testaceous tinge; 
all have the sanguineous band on the pronotum more or less 
apparent. 
Vulsirea violacea var. nigrorubra Spinola 
Plate I, Fig. 12 
1837. Vulsirea nigrorubra Spinola, Ess. Hém., 351. 
1843. Vulsirea nigrorubra Amyot and Servile, Hém., 143. 
This most strikingly colored metallic blue and red species, of 
which more than fifty specimens, including nymphs in two dif- 
ferent instars are at hand, was taken at Antigua only. The 
variation in coloration among this series of specimens is ex- 
ceedingly pronounced, scarcely any two of the lot being marked 
exactly the same. 
The first specimens of the species that came to my hands were 
secured by Prof. A. O. Thomas, the geologist of the expedition, 
from a spot about half way up the thickly wooded side of Monk’s 
Hill at an elevation of about four hundred feet, June 22. On 
June 24 I took about twenty specimens, among them a few 
nymphs, from a slender, willow-like tree which, as proved later 
to be the case, was the same one from which the former specimens 
had been secured. I also took one specimen at the old fort on 
the summit of Monk’s Hill on the same date. On July 1 two 
nymphs and two adults were seen on the tree visited on June 
22. But one of the adults were taken, the remainder being left 
in the hope that their progeny might serve to augment other 
collections. 
In the National Museum collections there repose specimens 
from Florida, Cuba and Trinidad. The latter is a nymph two- 
thirds grown. 
