174 prof. p. r. uhler on thb [Mar. 6, 



quite variable in size and sometimes lacks the red band on the base 

 of the pronotum. 



In Grenada it was taken on the Lake Antoine estate, March 24 

 and April 13, at an elevation of 350 feet above sea-level, on 

 herbage in open places. It was also found on the Mount Gay 

 estate and at St. George's, in August. 



3. Thyanta casta, Stal. 



Thyanta casta, Stal, Stettin, ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 104. 



This species was taken on the Mount Gay estate, in smaller 

 numbers than the preceding one, and it was beaten from herbage, 

 August 1, in open places. It was also found on the Lake Antoine 

 estate, March 24, on herbage, aud in thickets near the sea. 



Crato, Dist. 

 Crato urbicus, Dist. 



Crato urbicus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Hem.-Heter., Suppl. 

 p. 457, pi. 39. fig. 22. 



Only two specimens of this insect were secured ; they were 

 beaten from herbage, at night, in open places, August 22, on the 

 Mount Gay estate. 



Banasa, Stal. 



Banasa lenticularis, sp. nov. 



Form similar to B. paclcardii, Stal, but more convex above, 

 especially upon the pronotum ; longer oval than the related B. 

 imbuta, Distant. Pale green, more or less rufous upon the pro- 

 notum, base of head, coriaceous part of hemelytra, and posterior 

 border of the scutellum highly polished. The head, pronotum, 

 and corium set with remote erect bristles, most of the remaining 

 surface minutely pubescent. Head a little longer than wide, 

 irregularly and remotely, finely punctate, the surface uneven, 

 depressed next the base of tylus, often paler at base and near the 

 eyes. Antenna? more or less rufous, remotely pubescent, the 

 second joint much shorter than the third, the fourth sometimes 

 infuscated ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxse, green, black at 

 tip. Pronotum unusually convex in the female, somewhat less 

 so in the male ; the lateral margins reflexed, impunctate, ivory- 

 white, hardly sinuated, the humeral angles a little prominent, 

 with the outer margin curved and the surface near it tumid ; the 

 surface generally coarsely, remotely, deeply punctate, the punc- 

 tures partly arranged in transverse, curved, broken lines ; the 

 margin, bounded behind by a line of punctures, behind the eyes 

 reflexed, and the angles outside the eyes produced into a small 

 tooth ; the posterior margin a very little arcuated, with the edge 

 most slenderly reflexed, and the posthumeral margin sinuated, 

 with the submargin depressed. Scutellum very remotely, coarsely 

 punctate, the punctures becoming denser and finer along the sides, 

 with the apex narrow, pale, almost flat, and nearly impunctate. 



