1894.] HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OP GEENADA. 195 



Haltictjs, Burm. 



Halticus tjhleei, Giard. 



Halticas uhleri, Griard, C. Eend. Soc. Biol. ser. 9, iv. p. 81. 



Halticus minutus, Uhler, in Popenoe, E«port, Kansas, 1889, 

 p. 212, pi. 9. figs. 10 & 12. 



Calocoris canus, Dist. t. c. p. 430, pi. 37. figs. 11 & 12. 



Several specimens were found, most of which were winged. A 

 brachypterous specimen was taken, March 25, on the Mii'abeau 

 estate ; the other specimens were found, in August, among dry 

 weeds and rubbish on damp ground at Balthazar and Chantilly. 



Episcopus, Eeuter. 

 Episcopus ORNATtrs, Eeuter. 



Episcopus ornatus, Eeuter, Ofv. Vetensk.-Akad. Eorh. 1875, 

 no. 9, p. 90. 



Ltjcjus uvidus, Dist. t. c. p. 433, pi. 37. fig. 18. 



In the United States this species is distributed from New York 

 to Florida, and from thence to Cuba and San Domingo. It 

 abounds in midsummer in fields from which wheat has been cut, 

 and where it liAes upon the Ambrosia artemisicefoUa. 



In Grenada it was common at Balthazar and on the Mirabeau 

 estate, on weeds, both in April and August. 



PsALLUS, Pieber. 



PSALLUS POLITUS, Sp. nOV. 



Oval, black, highly polished, minutely pubescent. Head large, 

 triangular, almost vertical, moderately convex, rufo-piceous beneath, 

 with a few indented points on the vertex, the width across the eyes 

 a little greater than the apex of the pronotum ; antennas yellow, 

 short, moderately stout, the two apical joints and sometimes the 

 distal end of the second joint fuscous, the second nearly as long as 

 the head and pronotum united ; rostrum testaceous, piceous at base, 

 the tylus also piceous. Pronotum transverse, simple, moderately 

 convex, obliquely narrowed, and abruptly decurved on each side in 

 front, the surface highly polished, sparsely pubescent, obsoletely 

 punctate. Scutellum nearly equilateral, moderately convex, acute 

 at tip, obsoletely wrinkled. Legs testaceous, the tarsi usually 

 more or less dusky. Hemelytra highly polished, minutely greyish 

 pubescent, covered with shallow punctures ; the membrane smoke- 

 brown. Pleural pieces and sternum piceous. Venter highly 

 polished, not apparently punctate, often rufo-piceous at base. 



The male has the second joint of antennae a little thickened at 

 apex and often fuscous there. 



Length to tip of venter l|-2 mm ; width of pronotum | mm. 



Nineteen specimens of this little insect were secured in various 

 places on the windward side of the island. Of these both sexes 



