194 PEOF. p. B. TJHLER ON THE [Mar. 6, 



the Antilles, Texas, and Plorida. In San Domingo it lives on 

 various kinds of weeds growing on the sides of the roads and in 

 neglected gardens. 



Numei'ous specimens wei'e collected on both sides of Grenada. 

 On the Mount Gay estate they were found, late in August, on 

 herbage in the open country. At St. George's they were taken 

 during the same month, at night, from herbage. 



DicTPHus, Fieber. 



DiCYPHUS SEPARATES, Sp. nOV. 



Long and moderately narrow, pale greenish, erect-pubescent, 

 with the basal joint and apex of the second joint of antennae black ; 

 punctures of the hemelytra coarse, sparse, black ; corium with a 

 large black dot a little behind the apex, with the apex, the 

 posterior border faintly, the tip of scutellum, and the end of the 

 cuneus also black. Head moderately short, highly polished, 

 remotely pubescent ; eyes dark brown ; antennae pale green, 

 minutely pubescent, a little longer than from tip of head to apex 

 of clavus ; rostrum testaceous, dusky at tip, reaching almost to the 

 apex of the posterior coxae. Prouotum obsoletely punctate, marked 

 with a deeply-impressed longitudinal line, the posterior margin 

 deeply sinuated. Legs pale greenish, with the apex of the tarsi 

 piceous. Scutellum a little punctate, set with erect hairs. Corium 

 and clavus with remote erect fuscous pubescence ; cuneus minutely 

 striato-punctate, long, sinuated on the inner border ; the membrane 

 long, iridescent, with the veins of the areole a little dusky. 



Length to tip of abdomen 3 mm., to tip of membrane 4 mm.; 

 width of pronotiun g mm. 



This species extends its habitat from Cambridge, Mass., to 

 Florida and Texas ; it is also found in California. 



Six specimens of this insect were taken on the Mount Gay 

 estate, October 16, on low herbage. 



Paeacarntjs, Dist. 



Paracarntts mbxicanus, Dist. 



Paracarnus mexicanus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Hem.-Het. p. 445, 

 pi. 39. fig. 2. 



This species was captured at Balthazar, March 23, in a cocoa 

 orchard in a damp situation. On the Mirabeau estate it was found 

 March 25, on herbage near a stream of water. 



Annona, Dist. 



Annona labeculata, Dist. 

 Annona labeculata, Dist. t. c. p. 446, pi. 39. fig. 

 One specimen was found near Balthazar, March 23, in a shady 

 damp locality, on herbage, in a cocoa orchard. 



