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otherwise. The single specimen I took at Washington has the 

 basal joint of the antennae pale and the apex of the head black. 

 While in Jamaica I took two brachypterous females at Balaclava 

 and one at Mandeville that have the basal joint of the antennae 

 pale and the apex of the head piceous as in the Washington 

 specimen. All these females I believe to be but variations of 

 one species. I also took at Balaclava and about Kingston five 

 examples of what I take to be the brachypterous male of this 

 species. These are piceous black, a little paler on the elytra, 

 which are broadly bordered with white at apex. The antennae, 

 legs, coxae in part, and the apex of the front are testaceous- 

 yellow with the femora and tibiae lineated with fuscous. The 

 genital segment is large with the aperature oval and vertical, 

 broadest below, with the basal angles deeply excavated leaving 

 a prominent ventral tooth either side ; the plates are difficult to 

 make out but seem to be short, ligulate, slightly curved and 

 reaching about half way to the anal tube. Another male taken 

 with these is macropterous. This has the extreme tip of the 

 scutellum white, the elytra whitish hyaline clouded with smoky 

 at base, the nervures pale testaceous and distinctly punctate, 

 the marginal heavy and fuscous, and on the apex of the clavus 

 is an indefinite brown spot. 



I took single examples of two other species of Pissonotus 

 but I have been unable to locate the species with this material. 



Chloriona nigrifrons n. sp. 



Pale testaceous yellow; carinse mostly white. Eyes, front, cheeks^ 

 sides of the clypeus, a few small spots on the pleural pieces, claws, a mark 

 on the apex of the clavus, the apical margin of the elytra, some marks on 

 the tergum and the sides of the oviduct, black. 



Vertex rather long, quadrangular, extending for about one third its 

 length before the eyes, "basal fovse obsolete. Front narrow, a little wider 

 below, carinse pale. Antennae short, basal joint about half the length of 

 the second. Pronotum short deeply emarginate behind, lateral carinae 

 strong, curved, parallel to and near the hind margin. Scutellum short, the 

 sides deeply sinuated with the apex large. Elytra reaching the apex of the 

 sixth tergal segment; nervures strong, punctate, the commissural white 

 alternated with black at the apex of the clavus. 



Described from one brachypterous female taken at Rock 

 Fort near Kingston, March 25th. 



Liburnia seminigra Stal. 



Rock Fort, March 25th, six examples; Mandeville, March 

 31st, two examples. These are all males and agree entirely 



