June. 1918] Tclconemia North of Mexico 331 



Teleonemia belfragei Stal. 



Teleonemia belfragei Stal, Enumeratio Hemiptcrorum, Band. 

 III. p. 132, 1.S73. Champion, Transactions of the Entomologi- 

 cal Society of London for 1898, p. 02, PI. Ill, Fig. 8. 



General color whitish Icstaceotis; head, pnjnolum anteriorly and 

 body beneath slighth- tinged with ferruginous; elytra usually with a 

 few brown or fuscous s])ots on the nervurcs. Antenna? slender, indis- 

 tinetl>- pilose, whilish testaceous, the apical segment brown or fuscous; 

 first and second segments subequal; third segment nearly three times 

 the length of the fourth; fourth segment subequal to the length of the 

 first and second taken together. Pronotum sparsely pubescent, 

 tricarinate, each carina uniseriate and strongly elevated; median carina 

 elevated anteriorly, the anterior margin of the j^ronotum nearh- tri- 

 angular and projecting slightly o\'cr the base of the head. Head 

 sparsely pubescent, the median spine suberect. Legs mostly pale 

 testaceous, the tarsi black. Elytra with the costal area moderately 

 broad, uniseriate, the areola; hyaline, a little longer than broad, the 

 transverse nervurcs strong, brown and usually four or five of them black. 

 Rostrum extending slightly beyond the meso-metasternal suture. 

 Length. 3.4-3.55 mm.; width, 1.1-1.25 mm. 



Texas (type locality, Stal, 1873, p. 132). Florida: Crescent 

 City, Sanford and Biscayne (Van Duzee, 1909, pp. 173-174); 

 Crescent City, Biscayne Bay and Lakewood (Barber, 1914, p. 

 507). I have examined seven specimens from Jacksonville 

 (Ashmead) and Crescent City, (Heidemann and Van Duzee) 

 Florida. 



The slender antennae, the elevated median carina anteriorly, 

 lighter color, etc., readily separate this species from T. sacchari 

 Fabr. Numerous specimens taken at Gainesville, Fla., May 

 1918, have the elytra slightly mottled with brown. This is a 

 very common species in Southeastern United States and feeds 

 on the French mulberry, Callicarpa Americana in Florida. 



