1894.] HEMIPTBEA-HETEBOPTEBA OF GKENADA. 183 



St. Vincent, Porto Eico, San Domingo, and Cuba, and from thence 

 it extends through Florida into all of the Eastern States as far 

 as Maine. 



Possibly it is the most variable species of the group as yet dis- 

 covered, for it appears in all states of marking and colouring, from 

 the pale testaceous with few spots to the dark grey with all degrees 

 of clouding and specking. 



In Grenada specimens were taken at Balthazar, in open weedv 

 places on herbage, April 3, at an altitude of 250 feet ; also on 

 the Lake Antoine estate, April 13, at an altitude of 350 feet, on 

 the shores of a stream in the midst of second-growth timber, and 

 in August at various other localities on the island. 



2. Ntsitjs in^qualis, sp. nov. 



Subovate, broad, a little more robust than If. californicus, Stal. 

 Pale dull fulvous, punctate with fuscous yellowish pubescence. 

 Head subacute, a little longer than wide, fulvous, \\-ith a pale line 

 stretching from base to end of tylus ; inner border against the eyes 

 pale yellow, followed by a wider black stripe, the antenniferous 

 lobe also pale yellow ; gula black along the middle ; antennse dull 

 fulvous, the basal joint blacldsh on the under surface at tip, the 

 second joint longer than the third, tipped with black, the apical joint 

 blackish, a little longer than the third ; bucculse pale ; the rostrum 

 more or less fuscous, reaching to the middle coxae. Pronotum 

 trapeziform, obliquely narrowing towards the apex, the sides not 

 arcuated, with the margin feebly reflexed, the anterior lobe short, 

 ■with the transverse incisure carried out to the excavation next the 

 margin, but not through it ; the surface distinctly and closely 

 punctate, having a pale callous line each side of the middle 

 throughout its length ; the disk often infuscated, the middle line 

 grooved, having a pale callosity on its posterior end at the margin, 

 apex before the callous line deeply sunken, the lateral submargin 

 grooved and lineated with fuscous ; humeri vith an acute knob, 

 behind which the margin is indented ; the posterior margin thick, 

 deflexed, arched, a little scalloped ; the posthumeral outer edge 

 pale and feebly expanded. Under surface rufo-fulvous, whitish 

 pubescent, having an interrupted blackish line along the sides, the 

 sternum and base of venter blackish, and the venter mostly fulvous, 

 with the black lines continued along the sides. The legs dull 

 fulvous, pale at base, flecked with brown on the femora, the base 

 and tip of the tibiae and tarsi more or less fuscous. kScutellum 

 transverse, punctate, pubescent, blackish at base, or each side of 

 middle, the middle line and lateral raised margin pale testaceous, 

 the apex carinate, acute on the tip. Hemelytra pale testaceous or 

 whitish, carried baclv in a long tapering curve ; the veins more or 

 less interrupted with brown, as also the apical and outer border of 

 the clavus and posterior border of the corium ; apex of the cuneus 

 darker brown ; the costal area narrow, pale, with outer edge 

 strongly i-eflexed ; membrane long and narrow, the veins often 

 marked with long smoky spots, the middle to tip with a long 



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