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Oliarus ( Melanoliarus ) Fenn. 
Fennah 1945 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 58: 141. Subgeno- 
type, Oliarus maidis Fenn. 1945 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
95 : 423. 
Oliarus ( Melanoliarus ) campestris Fenn. 
Fennah 1945 loc. cit.: 141. 
One male was taken by the writer on Jost Van Dyke 
(Feb. 18, 1944). In this subgenus of Oliarus each ovary 
comprises sixteen ovarioles. In the closely allied genus 
Vincentia each ovary has eighteen ovarioles. 
Bothriocera Burm. 
Burmeister 1835 Handbuch der Entomologie : 156. Hap- 
lotype, Bothriocera tinealis Burmeister loc. cit.: 156. 
Bothriocera eborea Fenn. 
Fennah 1943 Psyche 52 : 14. 
Three males and four females were taken by the writer 
on Jost Van Dyke on Coccoloba uvifera (Feb. 18, 1944), 
and two males and eight females on Tortola (Feb. 15- 
17, 1944). 
Delphacim: 
Sogata Distant 
Distant 1906 F. B. I. 3 : 471. Orthotype, Sogata dohertyi 
Distant loc. cit.: 471. 
Sogata furcifera (Horv.) 
Delphax furcifer Horvath 1899 Term. Fuz. 22: 372. 
One male taken by the writer at Road Town, Tortola 
(Feb. 14, 1944). This generic assignment is merely pro- 
visional pending revision of the family. 
TnopiDUCHimE 
The tropiduchid fauna of Central America and the 
West Indies is rich in genera and nomenclatorial con- 
fusion has arisen as a result of changed conceptions of 
generic limits. In his classification of the family Meli- 
char accorded tribal status to genera in which a costal 
area with transverse veinlets is present in the tegmina; 
genera within this group characterised by marked elonga- 
