1893.] PROM ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES. 707 



and almost straight veins, the one next the outer apex forked. 

 Posterior femora bent, stout, projecting about one-fourth of their 

 length beyond the end of venter, armed beneath with series of 

 short and longer teeth, which are set closer and arranged in a 

 double series on the apical half. 



Daemistidus maculatus, sp. nov. 



Pale testaceous, shaded and flecked with fuscous. Closely 

 related to Stacht/ocnemis, but with a longer head and less robust 

 figure, and destitute of the pilous covering of the head and pro- 

 notum. Head obsoletely punctate, minutely pubescent, with the 

 longitudinal middle line slender and faintly defined ; the crown 

 and the surface at the ocelli marked with fuscous ; throat pale 

 testaceous ; antenna pale fulvous, the basal joint darker ; rostrum 

 piceous at tip and along the middle line. Pronotum either testa- 

 ceous or pale fulvous, marked with dark brown dots, minutely, 

 remotely pubescent, closely punctate and somewhat granulate, with 

 the central line pale and the callosities dark brown ; the humeral 

 prominences and the posterior submargin usually brown, with 

 the edge paler ; the sternum pale and the pleural pieces darker 

 and punctate. Legs sprinkled with reddish brown ; the tibiae pale 

 testaceous, banded with a few dark brown, slender lines ; tarsi 

 with the last joint, nails, and tip of the long basal joint blackish. 

 Scutellum remotely punctate, granulate, fuscous at base, and white 

 on the apex and subapical carinate border. Hemelytra thin, 

 translucent, greenish white, or pale fulvo-testaceous, with the 

 veins interruptedly rufo-castaneous, and the thick end of the 

 medial vein, apex of the clavus, and border at tips of corium 

 piceous black ; membrane whitish, with the veins minutely and 

 faintly marked with rufous. Tergum with a broad black stripe 

 along the middle, which grows narrower towards the tip ; venter 

 pale, smooth, miuutely, transversely wrinkled, a little punctate on 

 the middle and at base. 



Length to tip of venter 6i-7 millim. ; width of base of pronotum 

 14-2 millim. 



Pour specimens, one without a head. 



Pam. BERYTIBiE. 



Protacanthus, gen. nov. 



Porm of MetacaniJius, Pieb., with the same tumidly convex head 

 and conically produced clypeus. Eyes subspherical, set laterally 

 and below the line of the vertex ; ocelli placed far behind the eyes 

 on a collum-lilie distinct lobe. Antenna) long and slender, the 

 basal joint longest, not ([uite so long as the posterior femur, but 

 longer than the two following joints united, miuutely clavate at 

 tip ; the second and tliird joints sul)e([ual, still more slender ; the 

 apical joint shorter tlian the third, slender, fusiform, liostrum 

 slender, reaching to the posterior coxa), with the basal joint not 

 quite so long as the head. Pronotum short and stout, scarcely 



