1893.] FBOM ST. VEfCES^T, WEST ITfDIES. 709 



TOMOPBLTA MinTDA, Sp. nOV. 



Eeddish chestnut-brown, pubescent, punctate all over the upper 

 surface and beneath upon the pectus. Head dull blackish ; an- 

 tennae fuscous, sometimes piceous or fulvous at base, the apical 

 joint whitish excepting at base, tips of all the joints generally 

 whitish ; rostrum fulvous, sometimes darker at base and tip. 

 Pronotum rufo-castaneous on the front lobe, which is also less dis- 

 tinctly punctate than the other and has the lateral margin almost 

 straight ; the posterior lobe is dark brown, coarsely punctate, and 

 has four short, yellow, longitudinal stripes ; the humeral angles 

 prominent, a little rounded, the transverse line separating the lobes 

 deep, indented at the outer ends, aud with a minute pit in the 

 middle. ScuteUum reddish brown, marked with a yellowish Y* 

 shaped figure, which is continued on the apical carina to the tip, 

 the hollow space each side of tip dark brown. Beneath dark ferru- 

 ginous, polished, especially on the venter. Legs pale yellow, hairy, 

 punctate, a little brownish on the coxae, base and tips of femora 

 and tarsi. Hemelytra pale testaceous, minutely pubescent, remotely 

 punctate with rufous or brown, middle of the costa with a small 

 brown point ; the inner apex of the corium has an irregular brown 

 spot, which connects with the margui and runs out to a smaller 

 spot on the extreme tip ; membrane clouded with brown, the outer 

 border thick and pale ; venter fulvous, or soiled yellow, feebly 

 polished, the sutures blackish. 



Length to tip of abdomen about 2 millim. ; width of base of 

 pronotum |- millim. 



Several specimens of this bright little insect were captiu'ed by 

 Mr. H. H. Smith while they were flying at sunset, in the forest, 

 in April, at an altitude of 1000 feet above the sea. This insect 

 bears some resemblance to the genus Drymus, Fieb., but it is much 

 narrower than D, silvaticus, Fab., of Europe. 



Bathxdema, gen. nov. 



ElKptical, body deep, thicker and wider than in Peritrechus, 

 Fieb., minutely pubescent, dull, polished only on the venter. 

 Head short, broad, inserted against the eyes, the eyes projecting a 

 little beyond the side of the front of pronotum. Antennae long, 

 reaching almost to the tip of scutellum, the basal joint a little 

 shorter than the head, the second longer, nearly equal to the third, 

 the fourth much thicker, fusiform, about equal to the second in 

 length ; rostrum reaching between the anterior coxae, not much 

 thicker at base, the basal joint a little shorter than the throat. 

 Pronotum trapeziform, thick, strongly sloping forwards, the lateral 

 margin carinate through to the callous humeri; callosities pro- 

 minent, long, placed obliquely ; stricture separating the lobes conspi- 

 cuous only on the sides ; surface punctate, duU. Underside of head, 

 propleura and mesopleura coarsely punctate. Anterior femora 

 moderately thick. Scutellum small, simple, a little longer than 

 wide, longitudinally callous at tip. Corium dull, wide, minutely 



