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FAMILY I. — SCUTELLERID^E. 



joint; beak reaching only to middle of second ventral; abdomen 

 without a distinct median furrow. 1. antillarum. 



mi. Antennae uniform piceous-brown ; beak reaching or surpassing base 

 of fourth ventral ; abdomen with a wide but distinct median fur- 

 row. 2. BIPUNCTATA. 



1 (1). Tetyra antillarum Kirkaldy, 1909, 284. 



Broadly oval, above strongly convex. Dull reddish-brown, the head, 

 pronotum, clavus and sides of scutellum rather thickly marked with 

 coarse fuscous punctures having a greenish or brassy center; disk of 

 scutellum with much finer concolorous punctures; under surface dull yel- 

 low marked with fuscous punctures; femora with reddish-brown dots; 

 tibiae tinged with reddish; tarsi annulate, the claws in part black. 

 Fourth antennal scarcely as long as third. Front half of pronotum de- 

 clivent, broadly shallowly concave in front of humeral angles, the latter 

 obtuse. Scutellum with sides and apical third rather strongly declivent. 

 Male with sixth ventral and genital plate as in T. bipunctata, the plate 

 with an obtuse transverse carina in front of its emarginate hind border. 

 Length, male, 15 mm.; width, 8 mm. 



Brickell Hammock, Miami, Fla., March 11; one adult male 

 and one nymph beaten from the foliage of the potato tree, So- 

 lanum verbascifolium L., growing along a roadside. A West 

 Indian species known in this country heretofore only from a 

 few specimens taken at Key West and Biscayne Bay, Fla. 

 Usually recorded as T. arcuata (Fabr.), a preoccupied name. 



2 (3). Tetyra bipunctata (Herrich-Schaeffer) , 1839, 87. 



Broadly oval, strongly convex 

 mottled with either aggrega- 

 tions of black punctures or 

 fuscous spots, the punctures 

 forming a number of narrow 

 curved lines across the prono- 

 tum and scutellum; the fus- 

 cous areas, when present, often 

 clouding the basal half of pro- 

 notum and usually forming a 

 small rounded spot each side 

 on basal third of scutellum; 

 corium and clavus punctured 

 like scutellum; membrane fus- 

 cous; connexivum usually with 

 alternate spots of black and 

 reddish-brown; under surface 

 dull yellow, with numerous 

 coarse black punctures along 

 the sides; legs dull yellow to 

 fuscous, marked with sparse, 



Dull brownish-yellow, irregularly 



