66 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



another at each basal angle of the apical field. Elytra with the vermicula- 

 tions and nervures but little darker than the surrounding surface, white 

 points scarcely obvious except three pairs along the claval commissure of 

 which the basal are very minute; costal area hyaline, broadest posteriorly, 

 and crossed by eleven or twelve oblique nervures, of which four or five are 

 placed close together near the stigmatal region. Propleura yellowish white, 

 polished like the face, with a brown cloud anteriorly and a black spot on the 

 sternum; remainder of the lower surface grey varied with brown. Legs pale 

 yellow; tip of the rostrum and tarsal claws black. Last ventral segment of 

 the female pale at base strongly produced and truncated at apex; pygofers 

 but slightly exceeded by the darker oviduct. Valve of the male very large, 

 semioval, convex, the rounded apex pale; plates pale, narrow, strongly 

 sinuated on the sides, the short slender apicies and edges fringed with pale 

 bristles. Length, male 3 mm; female 3^ mm. 



Described from one female taken at Appleton, April 10th, 

 one male from Moritego Bay, and one male taken along the 

 railroad track just west of the Kingston station, April 17th. 

 This is the smallest Platymetopins known to me. It may be 

 recognized by its close resemblance \.o frontalis, but the entire 

 face and most of the propleura is pale yellow and the form of 

 the male genitalia is very distinct. 



Platymetopius brevis n. sp. 



Most nearly related X.ofuscifrons but smaller with a still shorter vertex. 

 Color above greyish testaceous much as in cmereus O. & B. Vertex short, 

 triangular before, scarcely more produced than in certain species of Delto- 

 cephalns; quite strongly tinged with fulvous; median furrow generally a 

 little darker, disk marked either side by an oval pale spot opposite the 

 anterior angle of the eye and a dart at base, another pale line follows the 

 inner margin of the eye a little way from its base; extreme edge of the head 

 with five ivory white spots which show above as a median spot and a ring 

 about each ocellus. Pronotum very short at the sides showing five distinct 

 longitudinal pale lines. Scutellum tinged with fulvous, the incised line 

 black; basal angles of the apical field pale. Elytra with the nervures and 

 reticulations strong, brown; the areoles with some white spots and mostly 

 bordered with minute pale points; costal field broad with from eight to 

 twelve strong oblique nervures. Wings highly iridescent. Face pale yel- 

 low, closely covered with fuscous irrorations which omit a slender median 

 line and some short arcs on the front and most of the clypeus and lorae; base 

 of the front with a white point, sutures black; disk of the cheeks with a 

 small blackish cloud; clypeus not exceeding the cheeks, moderately widened 

 at apex; lorae large. Beneath brown, pleural pieces edged with pale, the 

 propleura with an oblique pale vitta. Legs pale dotted with brown. Last 

 ventral segment of the female short, moderately produced, with a pale discal 

 spot on either side of the median line; oviduct scarcely longer than the 

 pygofers, blackish on the sides. Valve of the male large, apex slightly 

 angled and appressed, plates long, acute at apex, their sides but slightly 

 sinuated; black, fringed with black bristles. Length 3^ mm. 



