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pronotum behind the eyes. It affords me pleasure to name 

 this neat little species for my friend Prof. Elmer D. Ball who 

 has very kindly assisted me in the determination of some of the 

 doubtful forms here enumerated, and whose unfailing energy 

 has added so much to our knowledge of the North American 

 Homoptera. 



Phlepsius cinereus Van Duzee. 



I found this species in numbers on low tangled vines and 

 herbage along the roadside a little north of the village of Rich- 

 mond on April 15th. 



Acinopterus acuminatus Van Duzee. 



Richmond, April 15th, three examples. Two of these were 

 swept from grass and weeds along the roadside in company with 

 the preceding species. They seem to differ in no respect from 

 our northern specimens. 



Scaphoideus fasciatus Osborn. 



I took two examples of this species at Mandeville, March 

 30th, and a third from near the railroad track a little west of 

 the station at Kingston, April 17th. These agree in all respects 

 with a pair in my collection taken by Mrs. Annie Trumbull 

 Slosson at Biscayne Bay, Florida, and an example taken by me 

 at Rivington, N. J. With the Rivington specimen I took what 

 I place as the typical sanctus Say. Prof. Osborn has fully in- 

 dicated the characters by which these closely allied species may 

 be distinguished and I quite agree with him that for the present 

 at least they should be considered distinct species. 



Thamnotettix colonus Uhler. 



Taken at Hope Gardens and near the Constant Spring 

 Hotel at Kingston, at Mandeville, and from Richmond, where 

 they were common in a pasture on the hillside above the town. 

 The types were from the Island of St. Vincent. Dr. Uhler 

 placed this species in genus Deltocephalus but it seems to me 

 that its affinities are rather with Thamnotettix although the 

 front is somewhat broader than in our more typical species. 



Thamnotettix comata Ball. 



I took numerous examples of this species at Kingston, 

 Mandeville, Balaclava, Hope Bay, and Richmond. These 

 differ from Ball's description in wanting most of the black 

 markings above except the two large round spots on the vertex 



