24 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



are more obscurely white. Dr. Uhler's M. robusta would seem 

 to be a very closely allied species. 



Near Rock Fort I took from a little pond of water by the 

 roadside a larval form of Microvelia that I take to be the young 

 of the present species as it has the same characters of the 

 antennae and legs. It is blackish above with the collum and a 

 large quadrate spot on the middle of the pronotum and a dot 

 on the connexival margin of the first tergal segment fulvous. 



I was much disappointed in not taking more of the aquatic 

 and littoral forms of the Hemiptera in Jamaica. Although I 

 searched diligently wherever I collected near the water I took 

 but this, the Rhagovelia mentioned above, and the single speci- 

 men of Buenoa noticed further on. 



Some years ago while collecting at Rivington, N. J. with 

 Prof. C. W. Johnson my attention was directed by him .to a 

 colony of Microvelias that had their home in a water barrel 

 under some trees. These specimens agree in every respect 

 with Champion's description of his albonotata, founded on a 

 single specimen from Guatamala. This differs from Uhler's 

 description of modesta in several minor particulars, and for the 

 present at least I prefer to place these northern specimens under 

 Champion's species. 



Family Reduviidse 



Ghilianella Signoreti Dohrn. 



This large species was not uncommon on trees and bushes 

 in various parts of the island. I have notes of having taken it 

 at Mandeville and Hope Bay. In the specimens brought home 

 the intermediate and posterior legs are no darker than the 

 anterior but show the pale rings on the femora quite distinctly. 

 Two small immature examples from Mandeville and Balaclava 

 are apparently the young of this species. 



Ploiariola errabunda Say. 



I captured three specimens at Mandeville that I cannot 

 distinguish from this species as found in the United States. 



Luteva sp. 



One example of a species I have been unable to determine 

 was taken at Balaclava, April 5th. 



