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Germ , virescens Stal, and pelt at a Uhler as synonyms of this 

 species. X. viridis and peltata, the two forms I have examined, 

 while variable seem to exhibit no differences of specific value. 



Gypona unicolor Stal. 



Prof. Ball doubtfully determines this as unicolor and I can 

 see no good reason for changing- it. The hind margin of the 

 last ventral segment of the female is rather broadly and deeply 

 excavated, a character that would ally it with Germari Stal. 



I took this species at Kingston, Balaclava, Montego Bay 

 and St. Margaret's Bay. It was taken singly on bushes. 



Gypona nupera n. sp. 



Female : Most nearly allied to Wallengreni Stal and nana Fowler, 

 Above dark testaceous brown inclining to olivaceous; beneath pale yellow. 

 Head short, about as wide as the pronotum. Vertex of about equal length 

 across its whole width, incised median line and a dot on the hind margins 

 almost behind each ocellus black; ocelli sanguineous, placed -before the 

 middle of the vertex and about equally distant from one another and from 

 the eyes; anterior edge of the head well rounded to the front, transversely 

 striated or furrowed, the striae straight, simple. Front broad and short, 

 strongly and convexly narrowed to the apex, base feebly but distinctly 

 transversely depressed. Clypeus "rectangular, about one third longer than 

 broad; cheeks broad, slightly tinged with green. Pronotum about two and 

 a half times the length of the vertex, strongly transversely striate; anterior 

 margin paler marked with a pair of approximate black dots at the middle 

 and a curved brown line and a few points on either side; lateral margin nar- 

 rowly yellow, bordered within with fuscous. Scutellum with the curved 

 incised line fuscous. Elytra rather short, nervures pale dotted with fuscous, 

 basal one fourth of the costa pale yellow, bordered within by a fuscous line 

 which beyond runs along the costal margin, where it is dotted with pale, to 

 the apical third and is expanded inwardly over the apex of the costal areole; 

 beyond this brown cloud is a clear spot followed by a fuscous one on the tip 

 of the first apical areole; elytral appendix and two or three commissural 

 marks brown. Wings almost black. Tergum ferruginous, the incisures 

 slenderly pale. Legs whitish, the tarsal spines and claws brown. Last 

 ventral segment a little longer than the preceding, the apical margin broadly 

 concavely arcuated with a median notch barely indicated. Length 7 mm. 



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

 I cannot identify this species with any description known to me. 

 The short vertex, testaceous brown color, with dotted nervures 

 and costa, the latter marked with a yellow base and spot toward 

 the apex, and the yellow and fuscous lines on the sides of the 

 pronotum and base of the costa will most readily distinguish it. 



