1894.] HEMIPTEBA-HETEEOPTERA OE GBENADA. 207 



armed beneath with two series of fine teeth ; the middle ones 

 scarcely longer than the anterior, also thicker in the middle ; the 

 tibiae all filiform, very slender. Hemelytra a little narrowed in 

 the middle, with the membrane long, bluntly rounded at tip, and 

 a little notched on the outer margin at base ; the discoidal areole 

 very large, with the apical veins very slender, radiating like the 

 rays of a fan. 



Velidia bebytoides, sp. nov. 



Long, subcylindrical, griseo-fuscous, widest at the base of the 

 pronotum. Head highly polished, black at base and between the 

 eyes, the face, cheeks, and rostrum yellow ; the antennae dusky 

 testaceous, annulated with black at the ends of the joints, and with 

 a white band at the base of third and fourth joints, the basal joint 

 with a broader black band a little way behind the tip. Pronotum 

 greyish testaceous ; the posterior lobe strongly punctate, the cal- 

 losities black and polished, with a groove in the middle between 

 them ; the collum in front of these polished, yellow ; the intra- 

 humeral and the posterior border black, with the edge yellow ; the 

 pleural flaps punctate, pale yellow ; humeri with a small whitish 

 callosity in the angle. Scutellum mostly greyish yellow, with the 

 apical point white. Legs j^ellow, all the femora with a black band 

 before the tip, and the middle and posterior pairs, especially, 

 marked with about three narrow black bands ; the tips of tibia? and 

 of tarsi also black, Venter smooth, dull fulvo-testaceous, with a 

 large black spot each side of base and the last two segments mostly 

 black. 



Length to tip of venter 2| mm. ; width of pronotum § mm. 



Only one specimen was obtained. It was found at Balthazar, 

 on April 27, at an elevation of 250 feet above tide-level, near the 

 shady bank of a stream ; beaten from a mass of bush and decaying 

 leaves. 



All(eoehynchus, Fieber. 



ALLffiOEHTKCHUS AEMATUS, Sp. nOV. 



Form similar to that of A. flavipes, Fieb., but rather narrower, 

 invested with erect pubescence. Colour above mostly piceous black ; 

 abdomen, underside of body, and the legs honey-yellow, more or 

 less tinged with piceous. Head short, black, highly polished, rufo- 

 piceous from the eyes forward, the width across the eyes but little 

 more than the front of the pronotum ; antennae slender, the basal 

 joint hardly longer than the bead, dull yellow, darker on the base 

 and tip, hairy ; the second fully twice as long, hairy, about as stout 

 as the basal one, dusky ; the apical joints long, much more slender, 

 pubescent, fuscous ; rostrum honey-yellow, reaching upon the 

 middle coxae, the base stout, following which the next joint is thick 

 and extends behind the middle of the prosternum, the following 

 one is compressed and shorter. Pronotum campanuliform, highly 

 polished, deep black, with a row of coarse, remote punctures along 



