the Frt»/i<i o/' Bromeliacete. 4)^7 



lately different structure of meso- and metasterna and by 

 the presence of a sutm-al stria on the posterior part of the 

 elytra. Its prosternum is longer than in those species of 

 Cyclonotum with which I have compared it ; the raised 

 niesosternul lamina is much more elongated and does not fit 

 nearly so closely to the front of the metasternura, there 

 being a depression at the point of meeting. The Central 

 American Cyclonotum posticatum Sharp also diflers from its 

 congeners in having the mesosternal lamina much elongated, 

 but in that species the lamina is differently formed and fits 

 much more closely to the front of the metasternum than it 

 docs in C. urichi. The obloug-oval form of the body sliglitly 

 recalls D acty I o sternum, but C urichi differs widely from 

 that genus in the structure of its underside and in the entire 

 absence of seriate punctuation on the elytra. Altogether it 

 seems best to retain it as a very aberrant Cyclonotum. — 

 H. Scott. 



H E M I P T E R A. 



4. Microvelia insignis, sp. n. (PL X. figs. 4 & 5.) 



Winyed form. — Head and pronotum black ; hemelytra 

 black, with rather more than b;isal third greyisli white and a 

 small spot at apex dusky grey ; body beneath black ; an- 

 tennse, rostrum, coxae, and legs pale ochraceous, extreme 

 apices of the femora infuscate, apices of the tarsi black ; an- 

 tennae with the first and second joints robust, first distinctly 

 longer than second, third and fourth slender, a little the 

 longest, and almost subequal in length; head with a central 

 longitudinal subcarinate line; pronotum with the lateral 

 angles obtusely prominent ; hemelytra with the veins distinct 

 and slightly ochraceous on the basal white area. 



Apterous form. — Body above black, about basal half of 

 connexivum very pale ochraceous, the first two abdominal 

 segments obscure greyish. 



Long. 2 mm. 



Localities, 'i'rinidad, summit of El Tucuche, 3100 feet, 

 20. iii. 1912; from between leaf -bases of Tillandsia sp.' 

 I winged and 6 wingless specimens. Dominica, from above 

 freshwater lake, about 3000 feet, 29. iii. 1912; leaf-bases 

 of undetermined bromeliad, 1 specimen (wingless). 



Type (winged specimen) presented to British Museum ; 

 apterous specimens in Cambridge University Museum. 



A very distinct species by the structure of the antennae 



