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Color pale brownish testaceous becoming more yellowish on the head 

 apex of the scutellum and legs; vertex with a round black dot over each 

 ocellus; the latter placed on a brown dot; sutures of the face, apex of the 

 clypeus, pleural pieces, some marks on the base of the vertex and the disk 

 of the tergum, black. Front, except the middle line, some obscure marks 

 on the apex of the vertex, a lobate oblique spot either side of the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum, and the base of the scutellum ferruginous brown; 

 from either lateral angle of the pronotum an indefinite pale ray follows the 

 anterior margin and invades the lobate brown mark; disk of the pronotum 

 discolored posteriorly, the pale color forming a triangular spot with its apex 

 resting on the base of the vertex. Elytra brown, almost unicolorous, a 

 little darker along the commissural margin and apex, nervures pale; ner- 

 vures of the wings fuscous. 



Described from one male and two female examples taken 

 at Montego Bay, April 7th. This species may be distinguished 

 from novella by its wanting the black dots on the pronotum and 

 scutellum, and by its having those of the vertex a little farther 

 apart ; the pale color of the pronotum also is differently arranged 

 forming a triangular mark on the disk anteriorly in place of a 

 pale area either side of a median dark line. The form of the 

 last ventral segment of the female is also quite distinctive. 



Agallia basiflava n. sp. 



Allied to sanguinolenta. Front broader and shorter than in novella 

 with the sides more deeply sinuated below the eye; clypeus narrower and 

 more nearly linear. "Last ventral segment of the female long, obtusely tri- 

 angular, the apex truncated or slightly emarginate. Valve of the male 

 longer than in the preceding two species, plates broad and short, forming 

 an obtuse triangle with its sides feebly sinuated and its apex rounded. 

 Length 3 mm. 



Color pale ferruginous brown; face with two dots placed on the ocelli, 

 two others above these on the vertex, antennal pits, and sutures of the front, 

 black; cheeks broadly whitish, subhyaline; orbits of the eyes, a'large quad- 

 rate median spot on the vertex, excepting the median line and including the 

 four black points, a bilobate median vitta on the front and the sides of the 

 clypeus basally, pale cream white. On the pronotum is a pale border to the 

 dark median line meeting in front and produced either side in a curved wing- 

 like mark that does not quite attain the latero-posterior angle. Scutellum 

 with a black spot within the basal angles and three approximate pale spots 

 on the apical field, the larger of which occupies the apex. Elytra pale brown 

 clouded with darker, especially at apex and in an indefinite oblique vitta 

 before the middle; anterior to this oblique vitta the nervures are broadly 

 yellow, behind they are mostly pale with a few brown interruptions. In 

 pale examples the oblique vitta is indicated by a sagitate blackish mark 

 before the apex of the clavus. Pleural pieces and base of the abdomen 

 blackish; produced tip of the ultimate ventral segment of the female brown- 

 ish. Legs pale, the posterior tibiae dusky beneath. 



