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Blissus leucopterus Say. 



I watched closely for this insect but found only two exam- 

 ples, both brachypterous. One I took in the railway yards at 

 Kingston, April 1 7th, and the other in an old banana plantation 

 about a mile south of Constant Spring- Hotel. Both are small 

 and proportionately more elongated than specimens from the 

 northern states. It is of course quite possible that they may 

 have been introduced from the United States as they were taken 

 near the principal seaport of the island. 

 Ninyas Strabo Dist. 



This looks like a miniature Geocoris. I found it not uncom- 

 mon toward the western end of the island. It was taken at 

 Mandeville, Balaclava, Appleton and Montego Bay. 

 Paronius longulus Dallas. 



I took a few examples of this widely distributed species at 

 Hope Gardens at Kingston, under a pile of brush and rubbish. 

 I also took it on cultivated lands at Mandeville. 

 Pamera vincta Say. 



Common everywhere I collected in the southern and west- 

 ern districts of the island. Distant now places as synonyms of 

 this species parvulus and gutta of Dallas, amyoti of Guerin, 

 vinulns of Stal, and bipunctatus of Kirby; thus extending its. 

 range to India and Ceylon. 

 Pamera bilobata Say. 



I found this species fairly common at Rock Fort near 

 Kingston, Mandeville, Hope Bay, Troja and Richmond. These 

 specimens were a little smaller and more clearly marked than 

 those I have seen from the United States. They very closely 

 resemble Distant's figure of Pamera vicinalis on plate 19, fig. 

 1 3 of the Biologia. 

 Pamera sp. 



Mandeville, April 1st, one example. This specimen is- 

 somewhat mutilated and I have been unable to place it satis- 

 factorily. It has a broad form and shows some affinities with 

 genus Ptochiomera but the clavus is irregularly punctured and 

 I prefer to place it in Pamera. 

 Ptochiomera sp. 



St. Margaret's Bay, April 12th, one example. This is a 

 tiny little insect scarcely more than a millimetre in length. It 

 might be mistaken for a Cligenes were it not that the sides 



