1894.] or st. yincent, west indies. 159 



Ommatides, gen. nov. 

 Coleopterine, closelyresemblinga short thick Geocoris. Eyes very 

 large, oval, projecting diagonally against the anterior corner of the 

 pronotum ; front of the head short, bluntly tumid, with the face 

 vertical, protracted downward, and having long lobate cheeks 

 which converge over the base of the rostrum ; antenna filiform 

 beyond the second joint, the basal joint shorter and a little thicker 

 than the second ; rostrum thick at base, short, tapering, quite slender 

 towards the tip, reaching almost to the middle coxae. Pronotum 

 very short, almost annular, with the sides rounded off anteriorly to 

 admit the form of the eyes, the posterior margin almost straight. 

 The two forward pairs of legs placed near together ; the anterior 

 tibiae greatly thickened at tip and armed with long spines. Scutellum 

 very short, transverse, triangular. Hemelytra high convex, extend- 

 ing amply over the abdomen and much loDger than it ; the costal 

 border moderately curved, with the middle areole moderately wide, 

 and the thick cubital vein running back parallel with the next inner 

 vein all the way to tip of membrane, and with the two exterior 

 transverse veins as in Schizoptera. 



Ommatides insights, sp. nov. 



Ovate, blunt and wide in front; orange, with the pronotum, 

 scutellum, and a broad band behind the scutellum, covering the 

 membrane, blue-black. The head reddish brown above, yellow below 

 the origin of the tylus, obsoletely scabrous, very minutely pubescent. 

 Legs polished, stout, bright yellow, remotely hairy. Pronotum 

 moderately arched, opaque, a little scabrous. Hemelytra thick, 

 opaque, velvety ; the membrane but little thinner than the corium, 

 with the inner margin straight, not overlapping at tip, the apex a 

 little tapering and rounded at tip. 



Length to tip of membrane 1 millim. ; width of pronotum 

 || millim. 



A single specimen of this peculiar little insect was taken, but 

 no record is given concerning the place where it was found. 



Onceeodes, gen. nov. 

 Coleopterine, and resembling an Issus in form ; the hemelytra 

 particularly wide and subglobose, blunt at the anterior end. Head 

 nearly vertical, short and broad, moderately convex before the line 

 of the eyes, transversely impressed between them ; the cheeks 

 separated by deep vertical lines, the tylus nearly linear ; rostrum 

 very short and thick, tapering at tip, fitting very compactly into 

 the sternum, reaching to tip of anterior coxse ; antennas with the 

 two basal joints thick, the second joint a little shorter and not so 

 thick as the first, the remaining joints thread-like, finely pubescent. 

 Pronotum transverse, nearly crescent-shaped, moderately arched, 

 having the anterior angles rounded off to fit the curve of the eyes. 

 Scutellum acutely triangular, much longer than wide. Hemelytra 

 but little longer than wide, suborbicular, narrower at base, cor- 

 responding to the width of the pronotum; the veins coarse; and 



