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Ormenis ? herbida Walker? (List of Homoptera p. 470.) 



Form of the preceding species but smaller with the hind angles of the 

 elytra more produced and falcate. Pale green, each elytron with three black 

 points, a pair placed obliquely before the middle and near the claval suture, 

 the third about midway between these and the truncated apex; the numerous 

 areoles toward the apex of the elytra more or less conspicuously marked with 

 brown, those about the apical margins forming a regular series of longitudi- 

 nal brown lines which become radiating at the angles; sometimes a few of 

 the smaller areoles on the disk or toward the base are also touched with 

 brown; tips of the tibiae and the tarsi and sometimes the cheeks washed with 

 brown. 



Vertex very short, reduced to a thickened carina across the front of the 

 truncated pronotum. Front transverse, the rounded sides strongly reflexed 

 and more or less embrowned, median carina strong above, becoming obsolete 

 before the clypeal suture; this suture strongly impressed and nearly recti- 

 linear. Pronotum rather long on the middle, fore margin roundedly trun- 

 cated, hind margin sub-angularly concave, sides about half the length of the 

 middle line. Scutellum with a prominent median carina, the lateral carinas 

 scarcely indicated. Elytra narrow, costa almost rectilinear beyond the 

 basal third, the costal membrane of nearly uniform width, with strong, 

 close-set transverse nervures; apex straight or slightly concave, outer angles 

 a very little rounded, inner angles subacutely prominent or falcate. Length 

 5 to 8 mm. 



Description made from twelve examples taken at Kingston, 

 Mandeville, Balaclava, Appleton, Montego Bay and Hope Bay. 

 This species seems to be common on the island of Jamaica. It 

 shows much variation in size and extent of the brown markings 

 in the elytral areoles. The three black points on the disk of 

 the corium seem to be constant although in some examples they 

 become much reduced. ' One large individual shows a brown 

 line on the claval commissure 



This insect agrees in every respect with Walker's descrip- 

 tion of his 'Poeciloptera herbida except in two points: He says 

 the middle chest is "concave behind" which is not true of any 

 species of this family unless he means that the sides posteriorly 

 are concavely arcuated. He also describes the fore wings as 

 "rounded 'at the tips". He may have meant that the apical 

 angles were rounded, which is partially true and is a somewhat 

 variable character; or it is possible that his specimen was 

 slightly mutilated. His material was from Jamaica and it 

 seems to me quite likely that this is the species he had before 

 him. If, however, it proves to be distinct I would propose the 

 name tessellata for the present form. 



