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FAMILY II. — PODOPID.-E. 



tibiae piceous, paler towards tips; beak, except tip, and tarsi pale dull 

 yellow. Cheeks slightly exceeding tylus, the latter swollen and promi- 

 nent its full length. Third joint of antennae one-fourth longer than 



second. Pronotum with median transverse 

 groove distinct, the tubercles in front of it 

 prominent; the humeral and apical teeth of 

 nearly similar form and subequal in length, 

 both being directed outward and a little 

 forward, the side margin between them 

 deeply sinuate; disk of hind portion of pro- 

 notum strongly convex, coarsely and rather 

 thickly punctate. Scutellum more finely 

 punctate, and with a vague, rather wide 

 oblique impression extending backward 

 from each side of base and another each side 

 behind the middle. Under surface sparsely 

 and coarsely punctate. Male genital plate 

 with apical angles rather strongly produced, 

 pale at tip, visible from above. Length, 7 — 9 

 mm.; width, 4 — 4.5 mm. (Fig. 11). 



Dunedin, Lakeland and R. P. Park, Fla., Dec. 15 — March 25. 

 Taken also by Davis at Everglade in May, and recorded from 

 Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Texas. 

 An introduced West Indian species originally described from 

 St. Domingo. My Florida specimens are all females and were 

 taken from the axils of the leaves of a tall sedge growing along 

 the borders of lakes, or by beating in dense hammocks. The 

 large size, longer beak, longer third joint of antennae and 

 prominent projections of pronotum are the main characters 

 separating dubius from our other species. 



18 ( — ). Podops peninsularis Blatchley, 1924, 87. 



Oblong-oval, small for the genus. Above dull grayish-brown, tinged 

 with fuscous; head and front portion of pronotum thinly clothed with 

 prostrate yellow pubescence; punctures of pronotum and scutellum each 

 enclosing a minute yellow scale; first four joints of antennae reddish- 

 brown, tinged with fuscous, last joint piceous, pubescent; under surface 

 uniform piceous, the punctures each with a yellow prostrate scale-like 

 hair; legs fuscous or piceous, annulate with dull yellow. Head as in 

 dubius, the cheeks just equalling or scarcely exceeding the tylus, the con- 

 vex portion of the latter shorter. Joints 2 — 4 of antennae subequal, 

 fifth fusiform, longer and stouter. Pronotum with median transverse 

 groove less distinct than in dubius, the disk behind it strongly convex, 

 rather coarsely and thickly punctate, the tooth or projection of front 

 angles much smaller than in dubius, not exceeding the eye, subtriangular, 



