350 Mr. P. H. Gosse on the Insects of Jamaica. 



68. ? impressus (Curculio impressus, Fabr.). At the 



back of Content Cottage grows, at the edge of the forest, a tower- 

 ing mahogany- tree : the specimens (some ten or twelve) of this 

 very conspicuous insect which I obtained, were all with one or 

 two exceptions found on this tree. They were usually resting 

 on the leaves or twigs at a great elevation, and we found them 

 only by a careful and patient searching with the eye among 

 the lofty foliage. When we observed one, we procured it by 

 thrusting up a bag-net at the end of a pole, into which on the 

 slightest shock it would fall. One specimen flew in at the open 

 window of the cottage after nightfall, attracted by the lights. 

 They occurred from the latter part of May to the end of June. 



69. Prepodes vittatus. The first specimen I saw was brought 

 to me in April, found among the grass at Bluefields. Straggling 

 individuals were picked up now and then until the end of May, 

 when the species became very numerous on Bluefields Mountain, 

 and still more abundant on the H amp stead Road ; continuing 

 plentiful throughout June. We found them for the most part 

 in the early part of the day resting on the leaves and twigs of the 

 young trees that border and overhang the roads. Specimens 

 differ much in size, and still more in beauty ; for while in some, 

 the longitudinal bands of alternate crimson and green that run 

 down the elytra are perfect and brilliant, in others they are 

 nearly defaced by rubbing, and the colours are changed to a dull 

 brown and a dingy yellow. 



70. Prepodes (sp. nov.). This is smaller than the preceding, 

 and distinguished by the longitudinal bands being white. It is 

 rather uncommon. I took three specimens almost together, on 

 low bushes {Lantana, if I rightly remember) beside the road 

 leading from Bluefields to Savanna le mer, about the middle of 

 July ; and another at Auld Ayr, near Bluefields, about the middle 

 bf August. 



71. Cceliodest (sp.). A few specimens were taken at Bognie, 

 on Bluefields Mountain, about the beginning of June. 



72. Eurhinus (sp. nov.). This is near E. festivus, but is still 

 more lustrous than that lovely insect j the light reflected from its 

 burnished surface is of an orange-red hue, and almost resembles 

 that of a glowing coal. I obtained but three specimens ; one of 

 which was found on a bush at Belmont, early in June, and an- 

 other on the Hampstead Road, at the same season in the follow- 

 ing year. 



73. Macromerus (sp. nov. ?). Flew into the house at Content, 

 during the evening, near the end of May. 



74. Lachnopus aurifer. This beautiful insect occurred only 

 in the neighbourhood of Kingston Harbour. At the end of June 

 and beginning of July, my lad Sam found it in considerable num- 



