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Described from one example taken at Mandeville, April 3d. 

 This is quite different from any other Flatoides known to me 

 and should perhaps form the type of a distinct genus. 



Subfamily Delphacinse 



Copicerus irroratus Schwarz. 



Not uncommon on various parts of the island. I took them 

 in greatest numbers at Mandeville and Balaclava but also found 

 them about Kingston and at Troja. These are rather dark in 

 color with the sides of the pronotum and scutellum embrowned. 

 A larva taken at Balaclava is whitish, dotted with fuscous on 

 the thorax, wing pads and legs. 



Stenocranus (?) saccharivorus Westw. 



I took several examples of this insect at Mandeville and 

 others at Balaclava, and at Richmond I swept them in numbers 

 from a coarse grass-like plant that might have been a dwarf 

 cane escaped from cultivation. Unfortunately these were 

 mostly destroyed by the ants on the journey home but enough 

 were left to show well the peculiar characters of the insect. It 

 has much the aspect of a diminutive Dictyophora. I hardly 

 believe this can be retained in genus Stenocranus. It seems to 

 me much nearer Tropidocephala and may form the type of a 

 new genus. 



This is a pale green insect with the elytra long, subhyaline, 

 a little embrowned along the inner margin toward the apex, 

 with the nervures green. The vertex is narrow, long conical 

 and produced about one half its length before the eyes. Front 

 narrow, slightly but regularly widened toward the clypeus, with 

 a prominent median carina; viewed from the side the apex is 

 distinctly, subangularly, deflected before the eyes. Ocelli 

 brown. Antennae conspicuously lineated with black anteriorly. 

 Length to tip of the elytra about 5 mm. 



Peregrinus maidis Ashm. 



Appleton, April 9th, one example. Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy 

 founded this genus in 1904 (Ent. xxxvii, p. 175) for the recep- 

 tion of the present species. He reports it as found throughout 

 Queensland and on Hawaii. The types were from Florida. 

 The present specimen I swept from vegetation along the Siloah 

 River but its home was doubtless on the sugar cane which was 

 largely grown all along the river. 



