1893.] FROM ST. YINCENT, WEST INDIES, 715 



orange, and this colour covers the entire cuneus, tte outer border 

 and cuneus less coarsely punctate than the clavus. Venter 

 blackish, ^Yith the disk basally dull orange. 



Length to end of venter 2|-3 millim., to tip of membrane 

 4— 4| millim. ; Midth of pronotum 1^-1 1 millim. 



Three mature specimens, a male and two females, and two larvae 

 were secured. These were met -with on both sides of the island, 

 and the larvae were obtained at the roots of grass on the marsh 

 500 feet above the level of the sea. 



This genus belongs to the division Clivinemaria of Eeuter, and 

 this species, together with the two other hooded species of 

 Mr. Distant, may eventually be found to belong to the genus 

 Clivinema, Eeuter. In this genus there is lack of uniformity in 

 the proportions of the antennae, not only in the two sexes, but also 

 among individuals of the same species. 



Genus P(eciloscttus, Keber. 



PffiCILOSCTTUS OBSCUBUS, sp. noV. 



Closely related to P. baaalis, Eeuter. Dark chestnut-brown, 

 oblong-ovate, spread with close fine golden pubescence; female 

 broader than the male. Head long, acutely triangular, dull, not 

 distinctly punctate, polished when denuded ; face convex, surface 

 around the eyes, a slender streak on the middle, and the cheeks 

 each side of tylus more or less yellovidsh ; the tylus, bucculae, and 

 base, tip, and middle of rostrum dark brown, the rostrum mostly 

 yellowish and reaching behind the posterior coxae ; the transverse 

 carina at base of head prominent, piceous, polished. Antennae of 

 medium thickness, as long as from front of eye to tip of cuneus ; 

 the joints either dark brown or pale with brown ends, excepting 

 the apical ones which are pale fuscous and nearly setaceous ; the 

 second joint is about as long as the base of pronotum. The 

 pronotum is moderately convex, obsoletely punctate, and covered 

 with the same prostrate golden pubescence as the head, scutellum, 

 and hemelytra ; the collum is generally testaceous or white, and 

 back of its middle is a short yellow double spot or band, against 

 each anterior angle there is usually a velvet-black round spot, the 

 posterior margin is a little sinuated and usually pale ; the stei'nura, 

 posterior border of pleural segments, and coxas are usually pale 

 testaceous. Legs dark brown in full-coloured specimens, but pale 

 yellowish brown in others, paler on the tibiae, and having the 

 posterior femora mai*ked near the tip by the usual two darker 

 bands. Scutellum moderately convex, obsoletely wrinkled and 

 punctate, bordered with testaceous near the tip. Corium, clavus, 

 and cuneus finely but distinctly punctate, the embolium and costa 

 with a testaceous spot at base, the fracture and tip of cuneus and 

 vein of membrane dull testaceous ; the membrane dark fuliginous. 

 Venter black-piceous or sometimes pale chestnut-brown on tlie 

 middle, spread with silvery pubescence and witli the edge of tlie 

 genital valves testaceous. 



