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Mr. P. H. Gosse on the Insects of Jamaica. 
68. ? impressus {Curculio impressus, Fabr.). At the 
back of Content Cottage grows, at the edge of the forest, a tower- 
ing mahogany- tree : the specimens (some ten or twelve) of this 
very conspienous insect which I obtained, were all with one or 
two exceptions found on this tree. They were usually resting 
on the leaves or twigs at a great elevation, and we found them 
only by a careful and patient searehing with the eye among 
the lofty foliage. When we observed one, we procured it by 
thrusting up a bag-net at the end of a pole, into whieh on the 
slightest shoek it would fall. One specimen flew in at the open 
window of the cottage after nightfall, attracted by the lights. 
They oecurred from the latter part of May to the end of June. 
69. Prepodes vittatus. The first specimen I saw was brought 
to me in April, found among the grass at Bluefields. Straggling 
individuals were picked up now and then until the end of May, 
when the species became very numerous on Bluefields Mountain, 
and still more abundant on the Hampstead Road ; continuing 
plentiful throughout June. We found them for the most part 
in the early part of the day resting on the leaves and twigs of the 
young trees that border and overhang the roads. Specimens 
differ much in size, and still more in beauty ; for while in some, 
the longitudinal bands of alternate crimson and green that run 
down the elytra are perfect and brilliant, in others they are 
nearly defaced by rubbing, and the colours are changed to a dull 
brown and a dingy yellow. 
70. Prepodes (sp. nov.). This is smaller than the preeeding, 
and distinguished by the longitudinal bands being white. It is 
rather uncommon. I took three specimens almost together, on 
low bushes {Lantana, if I rightly remember) beside the road 
leading from Bluefields to Savanna le mer, about the middle of 
July; and another at Auld Ayr, near Bluefields, about the middle 
of August. 
71. C(Eliodes‘l (sp.). A few speeimens were taken at Bognie, 
on Bluefields Mountain, about the beginning of June. 
72. jBJwrAmMs (sp. nov.). This is near E. festivus, but is still 
more lustrous than that lovely insect ; the light refleeted from its 
burnished surface is of an orange-red hue, and almost resembles 
that of a glowing eoal. I obtained but three specimens ; one of 
which was found on a bush at Belmont, early in June, and an- 
other on the Hampstead Road, at the same season in the follow- 
ing year. 
73. Macromerus (sp. nov. ?). Flew into the house at Content, 
during the evening, near the end of May. 
74. Lachnopus aurifer. This beautiful insect occurred only 
in the neighbourhood of Kingston Harbour. At the end of June 
and beginning of July, my lad Sam found it in considerable num- 
