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



110. Tetraopes (sp. nov.). Not uncommon on bushes beside 

 the Hampstead Road in May and June. 



111, 112. Tetraopes. Two other species. 



113. Odontata (sp. near bicolor). 



114. Anoplitis sanguinicollis ? Two specimens taken on Blue- 

 fields Mountain in March. I met with it also near Alligator 

 Pond in December. 



115. Imatidium (sp. nov.). This little Cassida, exquisitely 

 beautiful when alive, from the peculiar softness and richness of 

 its purple hue, was rather numerous in the Cotta Wood, and the 

 lower part of the Hampstead Road, near Content, in June. It 

 occurred on the leaves of small trees, a little within the woods 

 rather than at their edges, usually about eight or ten feet from 

 the ground. I think we took one or two individuals also on 

 Bluefields Mountain. 



116. Coptocycla guttata ? 



117. Coptocycla (sp. near gemmed). Both of these small spe- 

 cies were sufficiently common on the Hampstead Road and in 

 the Cotta Wood in June. The brilliant iridescent hues that play 

 over the glassy surfaces of these beetles during life vanish after 

 death ; but I have been told (though I have not been able to 

 realize this by experiment) that these fleeting colours may be 

 temporarily restored by plunging the dried specimens into hot 

 water. 



118. (Edionychis cequinoctialis? Taken at Bluefields about 

 the end of December. 



119. Cerotoma (sp. nov.). 



120. Galeruca JDomingensis. This little blue beetle occurred 

 almost exclusively at the spot where the road called the Short 

 Cut crosses the Paradise river, between Bluefields and Savanna 

 le mar. Here however in March and April it was very numerous, 

 hundreds thronging the air in flight a few yards above the earth, 

 on the western bank, which is covered with a soft thymy herbage. 

 The pretty little Melitcea, which Mr. Doubleday has named M. 

 Proclea, was also very abundant in the same very limited spot at 

 the same season. 



121, 122. Galeruca. Two other species. 



123. Orchestris (sp. nov.). 



124. Colaspis (sp. near viridipennis) . This pretty little beetle 

 was very abundant upon the Hampstead Road in June. It 

 principally occurred on the broad spinous leaves of a large her- 

 baceous species of Solanum, common in spots which had been 

 once reclaimed from the forest, but had been allowed to run to 

 waste. Scores of these little green insects were seen on these 

 plants, many of them in copula. When alarmed, they are apt to 

 draw in their feet and drop to the ground. 



