1893.] PEOM ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES, 713 



of this genus. It seems to be closely related to AgalUastes, but it 

 is without the saltatorial hind femora, and it differs from that 

 genus in the details given above. In a few specimens the pro- 

 notum has simply a narrow black band across the base. 



Genus Melinna, Uhler. 

 Melinna minuta, sp. nov. 



Narrower than usual, with the sides parallel, the surface highly 

 polished, dull dark horn-browji, relieved with pale yellowish 

 testaceous. Head particularly convex, ver}'' highly polished, with 

 a few obsolete punctures on the crown, dull pale yellowish, with 

 the middle broadly piceous and the tylus dusky ; the occiput con- 

 tracted, narrower than the collum of the pronotum, but the space 

 between the eyes wider than the front of the pronotum ; eyes brown, 

 large, most prominent laterally, almost spherical. Antennae 

 moderately stout, horn-brown, the second joint pale at base, 

 reaching from the front of eye to basal angle of pronotum, 

 becoming gradually a little thicker towards the outer end, the 

 third joint abruptly thinner and with the fom'th continuing of the 

 same thickness throughout ; both of these joints pale yellow, hairy ; 

 rostrum slender, yello\^'ish white, reaching behind the anterior 

 coxae. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, obsoletely 

 punctate, with the lateral margins very oblique, a little sinuated, 

 \\dth the edge moderately acute, but not carinated, and the humeral 

 angles prominent, the posterior margin hardly sinuated, the border 

 a little rolled and turned down. Scutellum minutely, obsoletely 

 punctate, concolorous with the thorax and hemelytra, and polished 

 like them, convex, pinched at the tip. Legs, coxae, and ovipositor 

 ivory-white. Hemelytra polished like the pronotum, minutely 

 golden pubescent, minutely obsoletely punctate ; the costal border 

 straight, honey-yellow ; the incisure of the cuneus and inner edge 

 of the same pale ; membrane a little dusky, darker at base. Venter 

 chestnut-broAvn, polished, a little paler at tip. 



Length to tip of venter l|-2 millim. ; \Addth of pronotum ^ of a 

 millim. 



Similar to 31. elongata, Uhl., but with a nick behind the eyes. 

 Two specimens are present in the collection and a fragment of a 

 third adheres to the card of another pin. Two specimens were 

 obtained in the wooded country at an altitude of 1000 feet above 

 sea-level, and a third was beaten from bushes in the Petit Bordelle 

 Valley at an altitude of 1600 feet above the sea. 



Another small species, coarsely punctate, apparently belonging 

 to this same genus, was obtained, but the only specimen present is 

 too imperfect for description. 



Genus Lygus, auctor. 

 Ltgus obtusus, sp. nov. 



Soiled pale green, polished, minutely pubescent, with the head 

 short and blunt us seen from above and closely pressed against the 



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