74 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



Described from one male taken at Hope Gardens near 

 Kingston, April 18th, the last evening of my stay on the island. 

 In this example the base of the scutellum has been somewhat 

 injured and the square basal spot may be in the form of two 

 parallel longitudinal vittae. Prof. Baker in describing the type 

 species says: "Face in the single specimen collapsed in dry- 

 ing", my specimen however is a well developed adult and I 

 believe the sunken face to be characteristic of this genus which 

 is very distinct in its general facies from any other known to 

 me. It was founded in 1899 (Psyche viii, p. 402,) for the re- 

 ception of the Brazilian species, Smithii Baker. Later (In- 

 vertebrata Pacifica i, p. 7, 1903,) Prof. Baker described a second 

 species, notata, from Guatemala. 



Protalebra apicalis n. sp. 



Soiled white marked with black, orange, and pale yellow. Head ivory 

 white; vertex quite strongly produced and angled before, convex; ocelli dis- 

 tinct; basal joint of the antennae tinged with yellow. Pronotum one and one 

 half times as long as the vertex; hind margin distinctly concave, the pos- 

 terior angles prominent, subacute; orange, with the deflected sides and a 

 large rounded median spot resting on the base whitish. Scutellum ivory 

 white with the small basal angles brownish. Elytra whitish hyaline; a basal 

 curved band on the clavus following the sutural margin from the base to 

 about the middle where it is abruptly deflected to the commissure, and a 

 small spot just beyond this on the corium against the claval suture, some- 

 times vaguely extended basally in a broken band parallel with that on the 

 clavus, orange; apex of the elytra from just before the transverse nervures 

 fuscous, with the nervures yellow and the disk of the areoles mostly hyaline ; 

 the extreme apical areoles are bordered with blackish; before this fuscous 

 apical area are some vague pale lemon yellow marks covering the apex of 

 the clavus and forming a broken oblique band toward the middle of the 

 costa. Beneath and legs white with the apex of the abdomen and genital 

 pieces yellowish. Last ventral segment of the female long, quite strongly 

 produced in the middle where it is minutely tipped with brown; sides of the 

 pygofers sometimes with a curved vitta; plates of the male long triangular, 

 their sides straight and ciliated and their subapex with a triangular blackish 

 mark. Length 3^ mm. 



Described from one male and five female examples taken 

 at Mandeville, April 1st. In its pattern of marking this species 

 seems to be allied to Alebr'a sanguinolinea Baker from Nica- 

 raugua, (Invert. Pacifica i, p. 5, 1903,) but the colors are' much 

 paler and it certainly is a Protalebra as the marginal vein of the 

 wings is returned but a short distance around the apex. 



