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FAMILY I. — SCUTELLERID^. 



from Georgia and North and South Carolina. Van Duzee 

 (1909, 153) took it from rank vegetation on the borders of the 

 tidal marshes at Ft. Myers, Fla., in May and it was beaten 

 from scrub oak Aug. 1, at Wilmington, N. Car., by Engel- 

 hardt. The yellow markings of the upper surface vary greatly 

 in number and shape. 



IV. Sphyrocoris Mayr, 1864, 904. 



Species of small size and broadly oval form having the head 

 triangular, nearly as broad as long, its apex obtusely rounded ; 

 tylus convex, slightly exceeding the cheeks; beak as in Chely- 

 soma, reaching middle of second ventral ; joints 1 — 3 of anten- 

 nae subequal in length, fourth and fifth also subequal, but one- 

 third longer; connexivum exposed for three-fourths its length. 

 Other characters as given in generic key, the principal dis- 

 tinguishing one being the peculiar form of the osteolar canal. 

 (Fig. 8, a). 



Two species are known, one from Mexico, the other from the 

 southern and southwestern United States. 

 6 (12). Sphyrocoris obliquus (Germar), 1839, 94. 



Above dull brownish-yellow, marked with numerous fuscous punc- 

 tures and piceous or fuscous streaks and blotches, the latter forming- 

 two vague stripes on head, often cover- 

 ing the greater part of basal half of 

 pronotum and usually forming a wide 

 oblique stripe on scutellum; this some- 

 times absent and the scutellum then 

 marked with narrow broken transverse 

 fuscous lines, much as in pale examples 

 of Diolcus chrysorrhceus (Fabr.) ; con- 

 nexivum dull red, the edge of each segment 

 in part fuscous; beneath dull yellow, thick- 

 ly flecked with fuscous punctures, the nar- 

 row margins of cheeks, flanks of pronotum 

 to near the hind angles and the front 

 d* ^^fpllilfP^ " '- an ~' l ' s of ill'' ends of ventrals a brighter 



yellow; antennae and legs dull yellow, the 

 latter with numerous fuscous dots and 

 blotches. Thorax subhexagonal, its lateral 

 angles obtusely rounded, the margins be- 

 showinK inrni hind them, as well as basal margin, more 

 (Ordinal). or j esg sinuate Scutellum with a broad 

 shallow oblique impression each side near base. Female with median 

 plate of genital segment rounded, very small. Length, 7 — 8.5 mm.; 

 width, 5—6 mm. (Fig. 8). 



Fig. 8, X 5. 

 of osteolar cana 



