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22. HAEMAGOGUS EQUINUS. Theobald. 

 (The Jamaican Haemagogus.) 

 (The Entomologist, p. 282, 1903.) 



General appearance. Head metallic violet, white between the 

 eyes in front ; palpi and proboscis black ; antennae pale brown. 

 Thorax metallic green, pleurae snowy white. Abdomen bright 

 metallic violet, with three prominent and one faint silvery white 

 basal bands and white lateral spots. Legs unbanded, deep brown, 

 femora white beneath. Wings with violet reflections, iridescent. 



Length. 4 to 5 mm. 



Geographical distribution. Jamaica. 



Life-history and habite. This brilliant species was taken by 

 Dr. Grabham on a horse, in August, at the lower end of the Old 

 Pound Road, St. Andrews, at 7 p.m. It is evidently an un- 

 common insect. Nothing is known of its life-history. 



23. DENDROMYIA MITCHELLII. Nov. sp. 



Head deep brown, with grey scales at the sides ; proboscis and 

 palpi deep brown ; antennae brown. Thorax deep shiny brown, 

 clothed with deep brown scales ; pleurae bright ochraceous, with 

 patches of silvery white scales. Abdomen deep blackish, with 

 grey or creamy venter ; unbanded and unspotted ; apex dark 

 ventrally, with black bristles ; legs long and thin, deep brown, 

 except one side of the last three mid tarsi (and the tip of the 

 fourth, which is black), and the apex of the first, which are 

 shiny silvery white. Wings with brown scales ; fork-cells long. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with flat deep-brown scales, 

 except around the eyes, where there is a broad border of grey 

 scales showing violet reflections, and at the sides, and also a 

 creamy patch in the middle in front ; a few curved black bristles 

 project forward over the eyes. Proboscis deep blackish brown, 

 nearly as long as the abdomen, slightly swollen apically. Palpi 

 deep blackish brown, with short black bristles, about one-eighth 

 the length of the proboscis ; antennae deep brown, with long 

 dark verticillate hairs and grey pubescence on the internodes. 

 Eyes black (in the dead insect). Thorax deep shiny black, 

 clothed with irregularly disposed, bronzy -black, flat, spindle-shaped 

 scales and large, flat, spatulate ones with dull violet reflections 

 over the roots of the wings, and deep brown bristles ; there are 



