MORGAN HEBARD 49 



Q Length of Length of Width of Length of Width of 



* body pronotum pronotum tegmen tegmen 



Miami, Florida 12 3.7 4.3 8.2 3.3 



Key West, Florida 10 3.4 4.1 8.3 3.3 



Key West, Florida 11. 8 3.3 4.1 7.8 3.2 



Coloration. — cf . Recessive. General coloration ochraceous-buff . 

 Head with occiput to below antennal sockets ochraceous-tawny, 

 face and genae suffused with blackish chestnut brown. Prono- 

 tum with disk ochraceous-taw^ny, remaining portions transparent 

 ochraceous-buff, except latero-caudad, w^here two blotches of deep 

 chestnut brown occur. Tcgmina transparent buckthorn brown, 

 tinged w^ith cinnamon brown proximad, paler distad, sutural mar- 

 gin ochraceous-buff, merging gradually into the darker color, except- 

 ing near the apex of the anal field, w^here a broad band of this 

 paler color crosses the tegmen. Wings hyaline with a faint iri- 

 descence, area of costal veins tinged with buffy, this decided meso- 

 distad. Limbs and abdomen unicolorous ochraceous-buff. In 

 the more usual intensive type of coloration the occiput is ochra- 

 ceous orange, the pronotal disk deep chestnut brown, this color ex- 

 panding caudad and embracing the entire caudal margin. The 

 tegmina proximad and mesad beyond the pale transverse band 

 are translucent cinnamon brown. Every gradation between 

 these conditions occurs. 9 . Similarly marked but usually of 

 darker coloration than the male. The pale median transverse 

 tegminal band is reduced to a triangular in^'asion of the more 

 uniformly dark tegmen. 



In the immature stages the coloration is similar, but the mes- 

 onotum bears two chestnut-brown diffused triangular markings at 

 the caudal margin, immediately within the area occupied by the 

 tegminal pads. The metanotum is uniformly pale. The abdo- 

 men is also uniformly pale, except laterad the two proximal dorsal 

 segments are tinged with darker brown, while the entire median 

 segment is dark chestnut brown. 



This circumtropical domiciliary species has only become estab- 

 lished in the United States in extreme southern Florida. The fol- 

 lowing series has all been correctly recorded by Rchn and Hebard, 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



