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believe he is correct, judging from a typical female from the 

 island of St. Vincent kindly sent me by Dr. Uhler. 

 Edessa chelonia n. sp. 



Allied to meditabunda but larger and more ovate and depressed in 

 form. Deep grass green ; clavus and inner field of the corium chestnut 

 brown varied with pale punctures. Three lines of these punctures follow 

 the claval suture, from the outermost of which a few transverse abbreviated 

 lines of punctures radiate into the brown discal area; against the outer bor- 

 der of this brown area lies an indefinite cloud of the pale punctures. Mem- 

 brane fuscous. Outer edge of the head and pronotum slenderly bordered 

 with pale yellow. Tergum dark blue-green. Antennae pale becoming a 

 little dusky toward the apex; the basal two joints dotted with brown. Legs 

 pale dotted with brown; the dots nearly obsolete on the posterior pair. 

 Lower surface pale green; the minute hind angles of the abdominal seg- 

 ments and an annulus about the pale stigmata blackish -green. Rostrurn 

 pallid with the extreme tip black. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum and outer field of the elytra closely and 

 finely punctured between fine irregular rugae; inner portion of the elytra 

 more irregularly punctured. Apex of the scutellum a little wider and more 

 obtuse than in meditabunda. Lower surface more coarsely and rugosely 

 punctured, nearly smooth along the middle line; ventral spine broad and 

 flat, obtusely angled at apex. Metasternal plate broad, lateral angles small 

 and abrupt, posterior margin broadly excavated for the reception of the ven- 

 tral spine. Disk of the genital segment of the male piceous black, its apical 

 margin sinuated either side of the broad shallow median sinus, outer angles 

 obtusely prominent. Length to tip of the membrane 14 mm. 



Described from ten examples, representing both sexes, 

 taken with numerous young from small trees growing in the 

 fields along the railway a little west of the station at Kingston, 

 April 17th. In Stal's synopsis in the Enumeratio this species 

 would fall in the section with meditabunda, but the depressed 

 and much broader and more ovate form and the finer and closer 

 punctures will at once distinguish it; the brown on the elytra is 

 also confined to the inner field and the venter wants the black 

 incisures and stigmatal lines. I have been unable to identify 

 this with any of the described species in this large genus known 

 to me. 



Family Coreidae 



Chariesterus gracilicornis Stal. 



I captured one pair of this species while beating weeds 

 along the railway track at Troja, April 14th, and three exam- 

 ples at Hope Gardens near Kingston. The latter have the 

 plates on the third antennal joint a little wider than do those 

 from Troja but I cannot see that they differ otherwise. In one 



