42 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



occidentis Walker (List of Homop, ii, p. 331, 1851.) This 

 seems to be a common species through the West Indies and 

 southern Florida. I beat three specimens from bushes along 

 the roadside beyond Rock Fort near Kingston, March 25th and 

 one more at Hope Gardens on April 1 7th. 



Melichar seems not to have recognized this species as he 

 has redescribed it as Flatoides lichenosiis. He makes Poecil- 

 optera sinaatipennis Stal the type of Dascalia, but it seems 

 to mje it would have been better to have taken the first species 

 mentioned by Stal as the type. That would have made the 

 typical group include those species allied to grisea in which the 

 apex of the elytra are rounded and the costa straight, in place 

 of those with truncated vertex and sinuated elytra. 



Flatoides ? monilis n. sp. 



Near the preceding but paler and more depressed in form with a nar- 

 rower head and much longer pronotum. Head much narrower than the 

 pronotum. Vertex hardly half the length of the pronotum; short conical; 

 its anterior and posterior margins nearly parallel; its disk strongly depressed 

 before the obtuse apex and less conspicuously so either side. Front long, 

 ovate, one and one half times as long as broad, broadest opposite the lower 

 angles of the eyes, its base angularly prominent, polished; the disk quite 

 strongly depressed leaving the margins, including the apical, prominently 

 reflexed ; clypeus long-triangular with its narrow base straight. Pronotum 

 narrow, strongly produced, the narrow rounded apex advanced before the 

 anterior angles of the eyes, posterior edge moderately concave, not nearly 

 reaching the posterior line of the eyes; disk with a broad longitudinal 

 depression either side of the middle leaving three very obtuse slightly diver- 

 gent carinse. Mesonotum rather small, the disk flat and bounded either side 

 by a low carina. Elytra ample; rather more horizontal than in Dascalia 

 grisea, almost parallel sided; costa a little wavy before the tip which is 

 rounded; costal membrane about three times the width of the costal areole, 

 with numerous simple transverse nervures; longitudinal nervures strong, 

 transverse veinlets rather indistinct, forming about one subapical line which 

 is not very prominent; no transverse nervures in the costal areole, a few 

 faint ones in the clavus. Posterior tibise bispinose. Base of clavus tuber- 

 culate. 



Color pale greenish grey, darker on the pro- and metanotum and base 

 of the elytra. Tubercular base of the front, vertex, longitudinal depression 

 on the pronotum, and sides of the mesonotum, brownish; anterior submargin 

 of the pronotum with a row of about eight or ten black points on either side 

 behind the oblique carinate anterior edge; ocelli large, set in a red annulus. 

 Elytra pale greenish, subhyaline, faintly clouded with smoky toward the 

 apex; a broken submarginal commissural line on the clavus, a dot near the 

 base of the clavus and about three smaller ones on the tubercular base of the 

 elytra, black; a few intra-venal dots around the apex and a suggestion of a 

 wavy transverse line before the subapical line, brown. Length 10 mm. 



