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adjoining the ocelli is always discernable. Generally there is a 

 fuscous vitta on the apex of the elytra which is interrupted by 

 the pale nervures. Prof. Ball suggests that this may prove to 

 be an extreme variety of flavicosta. 



Deltocephalus nigrifrons Forbes? 



I took a single male example of what may prove to be a 

 small form of this species at Rock Fort, near Kingston. This 

 individual has the vertex distinctly longer and more angled 

 than in my northern material of nigrifrons. It may represent 

 a new species but in the present unsettled state of the synonomy 

 of this species I prefer to leave it here with a mark of doubt. 



Athysanus exitiosus Uhler. 



This was a very abundant species everywhere I collected 

 on the island especially at Richmond where I found them in 

 great numbers on grass along the roadside. These were smaller 

 and darker than those from the United States, the males in 

 particular sometimes were almost black. 



Eutettix Balli n. sp. 



Form nearly of Johnsoni but smaller with a shorter vertex. Pale 

 testaceous yellow. Two minute points on the base of the front, two larger 

 ones on the ocelli, a pair of minute ones on the vertex between the latter, a 

 round spot on each side of the pronotum behind the eyes, and two marginal 

 points on either side of the scutellum, black. Elytra with a few brown 

 marks. Front rather narrow toward the apex, clypeus, lorse and cheeks 

 about as in Johnsoni; the antennal pits deep and marked by a blackish spot; 

 vertex sloping, anterior edge rounded, scarcely longer on the middle than 

 next the eye, hardly one half the length of the pronotum. Pronotum with 

 a transverse spot on the disk and an angular mark anteriorly bisected by the 

 nearly obsolete pale median line. Anterior field of the scutellum with 

 minute brown points on the middle, the edges a little paler marked with two 

 black points on either side. Elytra subhyaline, golden brown with coppery 

 reflections from the highly iridescent wings beneath; clavus with a fuscous 

 cloud at apex of each areole and a fuscous point near the base; corium with 

 two fuscous discal spots before the middle, the anterior smaller and placed 

 on the transverse nervure, apical areoles very slightly enfumed, the inner 

 apical nervure a little infuscated, base of the two outer anteapical areoles 

 with brown points. Breast and legs pale, the posterior tibiae dotted with 

 brown. Metanottim black. (Abdomen wanting.) Length to tip of the 

 elytra 4 mm. 



Described from a single example taken at Montego Bay, 

 April 8th. This very distinct species may be known by its pale 

 color, the four black points on the vertex in a transverse row, 

 and the two conspicuous round black spots on the sides of the 



