218 peof. p. e. uulee os tiie [Mar. 6, 



Beaulieu, Grand Etang, and on the Mount Gay estate. It was 

 found in the young stages on the Grand Etang, March 2, along 

 the mai^gin of running water, and in August it was found fully 

 developed on the surface of stagnant ponds and on a sluggish stream 

 near the sea. In the eastern United States along the seaboard its 

 habits are essentially the same as in Grenada. Near Baltimore it 

 lives on the ponds and around the overflowed freshwater marshes 

 among the cat-tails and rushes, where it creeps stealthily about in 

 search of small insects which fall into the water. 



2. Mesovelia amcexa, sp. now 



Dark brown, almost black in some specimens ; beneath pale 

 brown with a plumbeous tinge, except the venter, which is yellow 

 with transverse cloudings of darker colour on the segments, sides, 

 and tip. Head broader in the female than in the male, obscure 

 yellow, the vertex with a brown stripe each side and the middle 

 line grooved, the tylus and borders of cheeks piceous ; antennae 

 long and slender, rusty brown, paler on the basal portion of the 

 first joint, the second joint about two thirds the length of the first 

 and not quite as thick, the following joints long and more slender ; 

 rostrum testaceous, piceous at base and tip, reaching between the 

 middle coxa?. Pronotum opaque, velvety brown, marked with a 

 whitish transverse spot on the middle of the collum ; the posterior 

 margin widely sinuated ; the lateral margin with the carinate edge 

 but slightly elevated, marked with two or three small pale spots ; 

 the humeral margins more distinctly reflexed. Scutellum almost 

 black, a little rough, opaque. Coxae and legs ivory whitish, more 

 or less infuscated on the tibiae and tarsi. Pleural pieces more or 

 less tinged with plumbeous on a brown ground. Hemelytra velvety 

 brown, opaque, the base and a long streak each side white ; behind 

 the white band the surface is pale brown, and behind this, including 

 the posterior part of the membrane, it is pale smoke-brown ; the 

 base of the membrane and a stripe at its tip obscure whitish. 

 Venter glossy, often with a dark stripe each side near the lateral 

 border. 



Length to tip of venter 2 mm. ; width of pronotum J mm. 



From Mount Maitland and Mount Gay estate, August 26-31, 

 on the surface of a stream, and September 6, at 50 feet above the 

 sea, on a pool of water among grass and weeds. 



Michovelia, Westw. 



1. Miceotelia Capitata, Guerin. 



Microvelia capitata, Guerin. Sagra's Hist. Cuba, Ins. p. 417. 



A few specimens were collected at Balthazar in June and 

 August, on ponds of stagnant water; and others were found on 

 the Telescope and Mount Gay estates, in August and September, 

 on the surface of freshwater pools. 



