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Var. //. — Basal third of tegmiua almost totally whitish, 

 only divided by the claval suture, which is piceous brown. 



HaJ'. Trinidad (Brit. Mus.) ; Antilles; St. Vincent and 

 Grenada (Smith, Brit. Mus.). 



Reported from Trinidad as a destructive pest to the culti- 

 vation of sngar-cane. 



As pointed out by Fowler, the T. pictipennis, Stal, is a 

 synonym of the M. postica, Walk. Apart from the con- 

 siderable differences in colour and pattern, T. postica has 

 a less developed and more evenly rounded face than 

 T. saccharina. 



Tomaspis dominicana, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and abdomen above black, 

 lateral margins and apex of scutellum and base of abdomen 

 sanguineous ; body beneath and legs black ; coxal spots, 

 sternal spots, and broad lateral margins to meso- and meta- 

 sterna sanguineous ; tegmina black, with five sanguineous 

 spots, situate one near base of clavus, one above apical end 

 of clavus, two on medial vein (one at about one-third from 

 base, the other on apical area), and the fifth costal beyond 

 middle ; wings fuliginous ; vertex almost as long as breadth 

 between eyes, medially longitudinally carinate, between this 

 carination and the eyes a foveate depression on each side ; 

 scutellum strongly discally foveately depressed, the margins 

 of this foveation raised, united posteriorly and continued to 

 apex ; face rounded to clypeus [Monecphora type) ; posterior 

 tibiae with two strong spines, the shorter 'near base, the 

 longer near middle. 



Long., excl. tegm., 8 mm.; exp. tegm. 19 mm. 



Hah. Dominica (Brit. ]\lus.). 



Received from the Imp. Dept. Agric, West Indies. 



Tomaspis Ja/naicensis, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black; apical area of 

 vertex and about basal half of pronotum (not reachino- the 

 anterior lateral margins) bright ochraceous; abdomen abo\e 

 and beneath and legs sanguineous ; head beneath and sternum 

 black, the latter spotted and suff"used with sanguineous ; 

 face bright ochraceous; tegmina pitchy black, with two 

 large bright ochraceous spots, the first and largest extending 

 through clavus and reaching the subcostal vein at aboul 

 one-thn-d from base, the second spot smaller, central, and 

 subapical ; wings pale fuliginous ; face rounded to clypeus 

 [Monecp/iora type) ; vertex scarcely as broad as breadth 



