1893.] FEOM ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES. 7ll 



armed beneath Avith about four long spines, which have shorter 

 spines between them throughout the greater part of the length. 

 Scutellum long, compressed and acute at tip. Wing-covers narrow, 

 the costal margin almost straight, a little curved at tip ; veins of 

 the corium distinctly prominent. Connexivum strongly elevated 

 along the margin of the abdomen. 



Sph^bobitjs geacilis, sp. nov. 



Coal-black, polished beneath and on the anterior lobe of the 

 pronotum, invested with erect hairs on most parts of the surface, 

 both above and below. Head dull black, set with remote bristly- 

 hairs, remotely punctate, scabrous especially on the clypeus, the 

 throat coarsely punctate ; antennae f ulvo-piceous, with the apical 

 joint and tips of the others fuscous ; rostrum piceous, paler on the 

 middle, reaching between the anterior coxae. Pronotum jet-black, 

 with the posterior lobe rufo-piceous, coarsely and everdy punctate, 

 pubescent, the anterior lobe set with bristly hairs, obsoletely 

 punctate in remote lines, a few series of more distinct punctures 

 upon the lower part of the sides. Legs piceous black, paler on the 

 tibiae, the tarsi chiefly testaceous, the anterior tibia of the left side 

 (possibly of both sides) armed with a long curved spine. Scutellum 

 pubescent, coarsely, remotely punctate, paler at tip. Corium 

 whitish testaceous, coarsely punctate with brown in longitudinal 

 series, the posterior half blackish brown, with a subquadrate pale 

 spot exteriorly before the tip, the base also brown; membrane 

 short, incomplete, blackish, pale at base. Abdomen black, 

 polished. 



Length to tip of venter 4| millim. ; width of base of pronotum 

 1 millim. 



One specimen only was captured, on the leeward side of the 

 islaid. 4lS it is closely glued to the slip of card the underside and 

 femora of the right side cannot be studied. 



The presence of the spur on the anterior femur adds a new 

 element of structure to this remarkable insect. It bears niuch 

 resemblance to an ant, and is much narrower than the other species 

 described as Herams insignis, Uhler. 



Fam. CapsidjE. 

 Cylloceps, gen. nov. 



Long elliptical, blunt at both extremities, almost flat above, 

 poUshed, with the hemelytra thin, pellucid. Head very short, 

 vertical, the sides enclosed by the vertical eyes ; tylus very short, 

 projecting a little before the line of the eyes ; vertex transverse, 

 cylindrico-convex on the middle, scarcely higher than the low-placed 

 upper line of the eyes ; bucculae wide apart, narrow ; rostrum 

 slender, the basal joint longer than the head ; gula constricted ; 

 lobe behind the eye in contact with the pronotum. Pronotum 

 transverse, trapezoidal, feebly sloping, almost flat, destitute of a 

 coUum, the sides oblique, bordered with a linear callous margin 



Pboo. Zooh. Soc— 1893, No. XLVIII. 48 



