14 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



antenniferous tubercles; the intermediate a little expanded between the 

 antennae and on the tylus; tip of the labrum black, polished ; pale basal 

 collum interrupted by the large red ocelli below which is a pale spot followed 

 by a fuscous one behind the eyes; lower surface paler with an abbreviated 

 rufescent vitta either side of the middle. Basal joint of the antennae nearly 

 or quite as long as the two succeeding together, strongly annulated with 

 black, second a little shorter than the third, both of these joints dusky; 

 fourth about two thirds the length of the second, black with the apical one 

 third white and the extreme tip blackish; all the incisures pale. Pronotun 

 closely and regularly granulated; anterior lobe clearly defined, sublunately 

 convex posteriorly, anterior angles rounded, prominent; these and a median 

 basal spot obscurely pale and calloused; posterior lobe gibbous, with a feeble 

 pale median carina which becomes obsolete behind the middle, the posterior 

 margin narrowly reflexed and pale, a little emarginate at the middle; 

 anterior angles tuberculate, pale and calloused. Sternum darker rufous, 

 mesosternum with two pale feeble median carinas, divergent posteriorly; 

 osteolar spine long, straight, rather stout and pale at base with a more slender 

 black tip. Scutellum rather narrow, armed on the base with a long curved 

 pale spine. Hemelytra almost attaining the apex of the abomen, greenish 

 hyaline, costal nervure slenderly blackish, the other nervures and the clavus 

 ochraceous, the latter transversely wrinkled, slender apex of the corium 

 linear, defined within by a blackish nervure, reaching three fourths the 

 length of the membrane. Membrane transversely wrinkled with about four 

 simple straight nervures. Abdomen greenish above, at least on the connex- 

 ivum, more ochraceous beneath and on the base of the tergum. Legs long 

 and slender dotted and annulated with black, apex of the tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish. Length 6%. mm. 



Described from 14 specimens taken as follows: Rock Fort, 

 near Kingston; Balaclava; Montego Bay; Kingston, from the 

 railway yards just west of the city, April 14th. It was a com- 

 mon insect everywhere on the island. 



This form, is closely allied to macer and tenellns Stal but 

 the fourth antennal joint is white on the apical one third with 

 the tip black, not black with the extreme tip white ; the elytral 

 nervures are ochraceous not testaceous white, and there are 

 other points in which it fails to answer to Stal's descriptions. 

 The apex of the first joint of the antennae and the femora are 

 clavate, brownish, tipped with pale. The greenish color of the 

 abdomen and elytra may be dependant upon an immature con- 

 dition, as some individuals are entirely ochraceous tinged with 

 rufous in places, especially on the tergum. 



Metacanthus decorus Uhler. 



Taken at Mandeville and Balaclava. Apparently more 

 characteristic of the higher elevations. In his Rhynchotal 

 Notes, no. 10, Dr. Distant places this species as strictly con- 



