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mile south of the railway station at Troja, the next station 

 south of Richmond. The collecting was good at Richmond but 

 poor at Troja. 



Kingston, April 17th. In company with Mr. P. W. Jarvis 

 I worked along the railroad track for about a mile west of the 

 station and south to the shore with good results. 



An examination of the species here listed will show a close 

 parallelism with those recorded from the islands of Grenada and 

 St. Vincent by Dr. Uhler. While each of these islands has its 

 peculiar forms there are many species that seem to be common 

 to all the larger islands and the coasts adjacent to the Caribbean 

 Sea. Most of these widely distributed species spread north- 

 ward only to Florida or at most along the Gulf coast to Texas 

 and Mexico. A few however are found as far north as Canada. 

 The material taken by me was too fragmentary a representation 

 of the Hemipterous fauna of Jamaica to allow of any discussion 

 of the geographical distribution of the genera and species or of 

 a comparison of this fauna with that of the neighbouring islands 

 or of the adjacent mainland. 



I wish to express here my indebtedness to Dr. O. M. Reuter 

 for his kindness in working up the difficult but interesting Cap- 

 sids taken by me, and to Prof. E. D. Ball for his very valuable 

 assistance in the verification and determination of the Ho- 

 moptera. 



In the following pages I have recorded 23/j- species as 

 having been taken by me on this trip. Of these 85 species or 

 varieties are new to science and among the latter are represent- 

 atives of 9 new genera. An index to these new genera and 

 species will be added at the end of the list. 



Family Thyreocoridse 



Thyreocoris minutus Uhler. 



Abundant at Mandeville on the hillsides back of the New- 

 leigh House where I swept it from low weeds. 1 also took it at 

 St. Margaret's Bay and in other parts of the island. Dr. Uhler 

 described it from Cuban material and Prof. E. D. Ball has sent 

 me specimens taken in Hayti. Aside from its small size it may 

 be distinguished by its dull black color, closely punctured sur- 

 face, transversely rugose pronotum and scutellum, prominent 

 humeri and yellow elytra. The largest specimens I have seen 



