456 MB. E. I. POCOCK ON THE 



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1. ScuTiGEEA GuiLDiiSTGii {Newport). 



Cermatia Guildingii, Newport, Tr. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 356 ; Cat. Myr. 

 Brit. Mus. pp. 10-11. 



Colour : a wide ochre-yellow band in the middle of each 

 tergite, forming with the others a continuous pale median dorsal 

 longitudinal stripe which covers the storaa-saddles, the rest of 

 the tergites a deep blackish green; the upper surface of the 

 head pale on each side. Legs green proxiraally, obscurely 

 banded, tibige subochraceous, tarsi entirely ochraceous ; antennae 

 green, olivaceous distally. 



Head depressed above in its posterior half. 



Tergites strongly convex from side to side, only slightly 

 uneven ; the stoma-saddles wide, but not at all elevated, the 

 posterior end of the stomata not reaching the posterior edge of 

 the tergites ; the tergites finely pubescent, and covered with 

 small spicules. The last tergite with its hinder border very 

 slightly emarginate. 



Length 17 mm. 



Locality. St. Vincent (H. H. Smith). One male example. 



" Very rare, under stone, 500 ft. ; a second example at 1000 ft. 

 m rotten wood; a third example, measuring only 6 5 mm., at an 

 altitude of 2000 ft." 



2. *ScuTiGEKA siJPEEBA, 3Ieinert,Vid. Medd. Nat. Foren. 1886, 

 p. 104. 



"Colour fulvous or flavous, the dorsal laminae reddish brown, 

 with a wide median chalky-white band, darker at the sides. 



" Body tolerably wide, narrowed behind and before ; slightly 

 convex. 



"Head deeply and triangularly depressed, with elevated smooth 

 margins. 



" Tergites less highly marginate, rugulose, roughened, with 

 sharp subserially arranged spines and very minute granules ; the 

 margin obscurely crenulate, manifestly fimbriate ; the posterior 

 margin produced into an obtuse angle, tolerably widely sinuate 

 in the middle ; the last tergite tolerably wide, posteriorly 

 rounded and entire. Stomata evenly extended, longish. 



"Length 30 mm. 



" Locality. West Indies." 



