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and Montego Bay. Nemm marginata , Beany., a smaller but also 
offensive insect occurred at the same localities, falling to the beating 
stick. The fetid brown Piezodorus guildingi, Westw., was swept up 
at Constant Spring and Ramble. 
The Lygaeids were represented by the brilliant scarlet and black 
Dysdercus jamaicensis, Walk., of which two came to light at Walder- 
ston, together with the similarly coloured D. andreae, Linn., and 
J), mimus, Say. Of these D. andreae was very abundant on some 
cotton plants in the cemetery at Montego Bay, and D, mimus might 
be obtained in any numbers by sweeping at Constant Spring, Ramble, 
Walderston, or Port Antonio. 
The Coreid Jadera aeola % Dali., came somewhat freely to light at 
Montego Bay and Walderston. 
Other bugs were Euchistus higihbulus , Beauv., a small dark 
brown insect with spiny shoulders, which was swept at Constant 
Spring, but came to light at Port Antonio; Lycambis triangulus , 
Spin., which I beat out in the cemetery at Montego Bay, is a bug 
with highly developed femora; a black Phthia with brilliant orange 
markings, found crawling on the ground by my servant on the slopes 
of Mile Gully Mountain, at an elevation of about 2400 ft.; it was 
unrepresented in the National Collection ; a Chariesterus, also un¬ 
represented at South Kensington, was swept up near the shore to the 
east of Port Antonio; while sweeping on Shotover yielded three of 
the red and black Oncopeltm fasdatus, Dali. 
A concrete reservoir in the Castleton Gardens yielded half a 
dozen of a Banatra allied to, if not identical with, fusea , Beauv. 
However, my greatest triumph in the bug line occurred in this 
fashion:—After retiring to bed at Constant Spring I was aroused by 
a knocking at the door and a man’s voice calling to me eagerly to 
bring my net as he had a very big bug. As the entomological 
language of the “ Pearl of the Antilles ” takes a strong colour from the 
Great Republic, I expected to find a Sphinx or a big Noctuid, and 
sallied forth in my pyjamas. It was somewhat disconcerting to find 
quite a party on the landing, including a lady. A gentleman held 
in a folded handkerchief a huge water-bug called by Americans the 
Electric Bug on account of its frequenting the electric lights. I 
was myself somewhat awed, not having seen such an animal before, 
it is three inches long and over an inch wide! Judging from a never- 
forgotten boyish experience of our little British Naucoris cimicoides, 
Linn., the American insect, Belostoma colossicum, Stal, might inflict a 
most painful wound. 
