60 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



notum clouded in places and marked with two broken longitudinal lines 

 continuing those on the vertex, a short curved line behind the inner angle 

 of the eye and the latero-posterior margins dark brown. Scutellum pale 

 with the basal angles and a transverse line faintly brown. Elytra dull 

 sanguineous, the apex subhyaline clouded with fuscous; costa greenish yel- 

 low toward the base, nervures dark. Wings deep smoky hyaline. Abdomen 

 yellow beneath, connexivum sanguineous, breast and legs pale yellow, 

 mesosternum with a blackish cloud; tibiae dotted with brown. Length 

 4]4 mm. 



Described from five examples taken at Montego Bay, April 

 8th. This species seems somewhat closely allied to compta and 

 tunicata Fowler, figured on plate 18 of the Biologia, but it is 

 smaller, has a broader and more rounded head and the mark- 

 ings on the vertex and pronotum are quite different. 



Tettigonia similis Walker. 



This pretty little green insect was common everywhere on 

 the island. I took it at Kingston, Mandeville, Balaclava, Mon- 

 tego Bay and St. Margaret's Bay. As pointed out by me in 

 Ent. News (v. p. 155, 1894) Signoret wrongly identified this 

 species with Helochara communis Fitch in which error he was 

 followed by Walker in 1858. 



Tettigonia fuscolineella Fowler. 



Another common species which I took at many places on 

 the island. Prof. E. D. Ball in a letter to me considers this as 

 a mere variety of bifida Say, in which he is probably correct. 

 It has. however, a shorter head and the markings, which seem 

 to be constant, are somewhat different on the head and prono- 

 tum, and in a faunal list it can do no harm to place it under a 

 distinctive name. Canon Fowler's material was from Mexico. 



Draeculacephala sagittifera Uhlef. 



I found this tiny species not uncommon about Kingston and 

 took it also at Montego Bay and Hope Bay. This is the smallest 

 Tettigonid known to me. Some of the smaller males measure 

 but 3 mm. to the tip of the closed elytra. 



Xerophloea viridis Fabr. 



Not uncommon about Kingston and taken also at Rich- 

 mond, Mandeville and Montego Bay. Most of these specimens 

 were of a clear light bluish-green color but a few were washed 

 with brown on the pronotum, scutellum and elytral commissure. 

 I believe Osborn and Ball were quite right in placing grisea 



