34 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



Described from two examples taken at Hope Bay, April 

 13th, and one from Troja taken the next day. These insects 

 have the appearance of being- immature but on careful examina- 

 tion I believe they have attained their full coloring. If a 

 deeper color is attained later it is possibly a light green as this 

 color is faintly indicated in one example. This species bears 

 some resemblance to radicis Osborn but the vertex is shorter 

 and less angled before, the eyes are much more deeply excava- 

 ted below, the pronotum is narrower, the front is less angled at 

 apex, and the whole insect is smaller and slighter. 



Brixia fulgida n. sp. 



Size and form of Cixius pint nearly. Pale testaceous yellow; narrow 

 elongated disk of the pronoton either side of the middle and the scutellum, 

 its extreme tip excepted, brilliant metallic green; elytra entirely hyaline, 

 slightly tinged with smoky and exhibiting brilliant green reflections by 

 oblique light; nervures brown, the marginal, especially on the costa, heavy 

 and fuscous. Tergum mostly black. Slender edges of the facial carinae, 

 basal joint of the antennae, broad inferior margins of the clypeus, lineations 

 of the femora and the anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi, fuscous or 

 black. Length to tip of the elytra 5 mm. 



Described from two examples taken at Mandeville on March 

 30th, from pimento bushes. In this species the vertex is narrow, 

 almost linear, but a little widened at base. So far as I am 

 aware this is the first recognition of genus Brixia from America. 

 Its nearest American representative is Paulia opposita Fabr. 

 which possesses the same brilliant green coloring on the scutel- 

 lum. In both my specimens the apex of the abdomen is 

 wanting. 



Brixia fuscosa n. sp. 



Form and size of the preceding. Pale testaceous brown; metanotum, 

 abdomen in large part, some spots*on the pleurae and the disk of the front 

 black; clypeus, carinae of the face, pronotum and scutellum, sides of the 

 prothorax, edges of the pleural pieces, and the legs paler; the latter with 

 some lineations and the tarsi, darker or fuscous. Antennae brown, basal 

 joint whitish. Elytra hyaline, slightly enfumed, exhibiting metallic green 

 reflections by oblique light; nervures, about three spots on the transverse 

 nervures at the base of the membrane, and a marginal cloud at the tip of 

 each apical nervure, fuscous ; marginal nervure strong, interrupted with 

 white on each side at the first row of transverse nervures. Length to the 

 tip of the elytra 5 mm. 



Described from a single specimen taken at Mandeville, 

 March 31st. This species is closely allied to the preceding but 



