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first small, the second and third cleft longitudinally in the middle, but not 

 parted. (D. & S. and A. & S.) 



There are four species listed for the United States, of which three are 

 eastern and southern, and one western. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF HEBRUS. 



A. Membrane of hemelytra with three or four light spots. 

 B. With four conspicuous whitish spots on membrane. 



Elytra with a long wedge-shaped mark on clavus, and a white 

 streak on corium. H. consolidus Uhler. 



BB. With three white spots on membrane. 



H. burmeisteri L. & S. 

 AA. Membrane of hemelytra without distinct light spots. 



B. Membrane pale, dull brown, slenderly margined with paler 

 brown. Pale streak on corium. Head stout, vertex and face 

 very convex. H. sobrinus. 



BB. Membrane pale brown, with a pale spot each side next the 

 cuneus; head nearly as long as prothorax. H. concivniis. 



Hebrns consolidus Uhler 1894. 



Uhler, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 222, 1894. 



"A little more compact than H. sobrinus Uhler, with the transverse 

 suture separating the lobes not so deep, color fuscous, the surface above 

 finely pubescent, more or less spread with whitish bloom. The head 

 moderately produced before the eyes, somewhat tinged with rufous, a 

 little rough between the eyes; the throat pale rufo-testaceous; antennae 

 dull rufo-testaceous, usually darker at the points of articulation, the 

 first and second joints paler, subequal in length, thickened and black at 

 tip; rostrum yellowish testaceous reaching the posterior coxae; the buc- 

 culae, coxae, trochanters and legs pale testaceous, with the knees and 

 tarsi sometimes infuscated. Pronotum broad, moderately sinuated be- 

 fore the posterior lobe, with the lateral margins reflexed, and the humeri 

 prominent and blunt; the collum exceedingly narrow and almost obsolete; 

 the posterior margin deflexed, broadly rounded. The base of the scutellum 

 lunately tabulated, with the posterior portion triangular and depressed. 

 Hemelytra chestnut-brown, minutely pubescent, the corium marked at 

 base with a white wedge-shaped spot, basal half of the costal border dull 

 yellowish; the membrane long, dusky, marked at base with a short curved 

 streak, also each side with a bent spot, and on the middle toward the tip 

 with an oblong spot, all of which are obscure whitish. Venter rufo- 

 piceous, margined with yellow. 



"Length to tip of abdomen, 1% mm.; width of pronotum, % mm. 



"Several specimens were collected on the Mount Gay estate August 26, 

 at the roots of grass on muddy soil adjacent to pools of water, and 

 September 6 at an altitude of 30 feet, on grass and weeds growing out of 

 a pool of water; also on the Telescope estate, and at Helthazer, March 5, 

 on the open sandy shore of a stream, under decaying leaves." 



Locality: Florida. 



Hebrus burmeisteri L. & S. 1896. 



Leth. & Serv., Cat. Gen'l Heniiij., Ill, p. 51. 1896. 



In Burmeister's text, following a description of Hebrus p^isilliis in 

 Latin, this author describes in German some specimens from Pennsyl- 

 vania. Lethierry and Severin raise these to the dignity of new species, 

 which they name in honor of Burmeister. The descriptions follow: 



