1895.] HEIIIPTEBA-HOMOPTEEAOFTHB ISLAIfl) Oi-ST.TINCENT. 71 



in front of the elevation ; front dark brown, the clypeus and 

 rostrum pale piceous ; eyes convex, daric brown ; antennae wax- 

 yellow. Pronotuin dull pale brown, placed almost erect ; ineso- 

 notum prominently convex, blackish bro^^■n, paler on the pleural 

 portion. Scutellum almost equilateral triangular, pale yellow, 

 depressed in the middle. Wing-covers transparent, with a tinge 

 of yellow behind the middle, milk- whitish on the apical third ; the 

 veins pale brown, but interrupted ^ith Mhite on the apical division, 

 an irregular brown stripe runs out from the base to near the 

 middle, a double spot forms a bent band running diagonally back 

 from the costa, and a curved triangular spot of the same colour 

 runs inward from the apex, the nodal end of the band is boimded 

 inwardly by a white vein. Wings obscure hyaline, with brown 

 veins. Legs and posterior portion of the sternun )'ellowish. 

 Tergum fulvous at base, the post-dorsolum pale yellow, from thence 

 to behind the tip piceous ; venter flat, bright red, marked with 

 series of dark brown callous spots, the margin also dark brown, 

 which colour extends upon the genital segment and its attachments. 



Length to tip of venter 3 mm. ; expanse of \\ing-covers 51 mm. 



Three specimens, mostly in poor condition, were collected on 

 the island. 



Fam. F li A T I J) yE. 



Obmenis coNTAiuxATA, sp. nov. 



Obscure whitish yellow, or pale fuhous, covered with white 

 powder when mature. Vertex almost truncated, the middle 

 carina of front constituting a little angle at the summit, the 

 lunate pronotum capping the vertex almost to its front border ; 

 front barely wider than long, subquadrate, depressed, with the 

 sides curved and the lower angles a little rounded ; clypeus long, 

 prominent, triangular, with a broad blunt carina on the middle 

 line, acute at tip; the rostrum reaching behind the posterior 

 coxae. Mesonotal shield covering nearly the whole upper surface 

 of the mesothorax, the anterior portion forming a long rounded 

 lobe, and the posterior division constituting a blunt triangle, 

 terminated by a very shoi-t scutellum ; the disk oval, bounded on 

 the sides by carinate lines, and having a carina on the middle. 

 Wing-covers nearly parallel-sided, the \ndth across the tip only 

 a little more than across the middle of the clavus with the 

 corium ; the veins very numerous, those of the disk nearly all 

 forked, the apical ones mostly straight, parallel and simple, the 

 series on the border of the inferior apex diagonal, those of the 

 costal area numerous and straight ; the postcostal area is occupied 

 in great part by fine reticulated veins ; the clavus is covered with 

 coarse granules, another set occupies the basal angle of the costal 

 area, and the inner middle base of the corium is set with a patch 

 of finer granules ; wings either white or smoky, with darker veins. 

 Abdomen compressed. 



