•100 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



3lelissa azurea (Lep.). 



Syn. inifipes, Perty. 



Batli, St. Thomas, Jamaica (£*. M. Swainson). 

 Perfectly typical ; new to Jamaica. 



JSomioides muiriy sp. n. 



? . — Length about 5 mm. 



Head and thorax a dullish rather variable yellowish green, 

 with bright markings and thin white pubescence ; clypeus 

 yellow, its upper edge straight ; yellow lateral face-marks 

 very small, transverse, not or hardly going above a line drawn 

 horizontally from lower edge of orbit to clypeus; mandibles 

 yellow, black apically ; scape yellow, the upper three-fifths 

 black above ; flagellura dark above, pallid below ; inner 

 orbits conspicuously emarginate; upper edge of prothorax, 

 tubercles (except a black dot), tegulfe, a broad band (abruptly 

 truncate laterally, not reaching sides) on hind part of meso- 

 thorax, two large (confluent posteriorly) patches on scutellum 

 and most of postscutellum, all yellow, as also a line from 

 scutellar patches to hind wings; pleura without yellow. 

 Wings perfectly clear, with very pale yellow venation ; stigma 

 large, b. n. strongly bent, second s.ra. narrow; legs yellow, 

 coxae, hind femora (except at apex), and much of middle of 

 hind tibiee black. Abdomen yellow with dark brown bands, 

 apical middle of first segment green ; base and apex of first 

 segment, narrowly connected in middle line, dark ; second 

 and third segments black at anterior basal corners and 

 broadly brown apically, the brown not reaching the lateral 

 margins ; on the third segment this is developed medially 

 into a large triangle, the aj^ex o£ which nearly reaches the 

 base of the segment (in another specimen this triangle is not 

 present) ; apical segments with rather irregular yellow clouds 

 on a dark ground ; venter largely dark, especially on apical 

 half. 



Hab. Mozambique {F. Muir). Type in Cambridge Uni- 

 versity Museum. 



The genus JSomioides was previously known in E. Africa 

 as far south as Somaliland [N. somalica, Magr.). 



Crocisa cceruleifronSy W. F. Kirby. 



An examination of the type in the British Museum shows 

 that this species has been quite misunderstood, and has no- 

 thing to do with the Australian insect attributed to it, the 



