60 FAMILY III. — CORIMEL^ENIDjE. 



reddish-brown, the outer two joints darker; abdomen and propleura 

 black, shining; legs dark reddish-brown, the tarsi paler. Head declivent, 

 broader than long, depressed along the tylus, the cheeks finely, densely 

 confluently punctate. Front half of pronotum with punctures at middle 

 fine and rather sparse, on sides coarser and very dense; hind portion of 

 pronotum and disk of scutellum densely aciculately punctate. Elytra 

 finely and rather sparsely punctate. Abdomen nearly smooth at middle, 

 the sides finely, not closely punctate. Osteolar area opaque, finely 

 transversely rugose. Length, 4 — 5.2 mm.; width, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Crawford Co., Ind., July 9 (W.S.B.) \ swept from Cassia 

 marilandica L. Topeka and Meredosia, 111., June 7 — Aug. 17 

 (Hart) . Ranges from southern Indiana and Illinois west to the 

 Pacific and south to Florida and Arizona ; occurring mainly on 

 Cassia. In Florida it has been taken only at Lake Worth by 

 Mrs. Slosson and Ocean Beach by Davis. Hart (1919, 208) 

 says that this "is in Illinois a characteristic and very common 

 species of the sand areas. In August it was often common on 

 the stems of various plants, but its most curious habit was 

 that of burrowing in the loose drifting sand about the roots 

 of tufts of grass. Where there was no sign of individuals 

 above ground, a single turn of the finger in the sand around 

 a grass plant would frequently bring two or three to the sur- 

 face. Nymphs were taken at Havana Sept. 20." Van 

 Duzee (1904, 6) says that it is "quite distinctly transversely 

 wrinkled on the disk of pronotum and scutellum." Uhler does 

 not mention such wrinkles and none of the specimens at hand 

 show them, all having the punctures dense and aciculate, the 

 punctures being connected by very fine lengthwise sulci, each 

 of which has a minute ridge each side, thus giving a peculiar 

 subopaque finish to the surface. 



22 (40). Cydnoides renormatus (Uhler), 1895, 11. 



Oval, subdepressed. Black, shining, base of both corium and clavus 

 ivory-white, almost impunctate. Head rather finely, unevenly, rugosely 

 punctate. Pronotum twice as wide as long, feebly convex; disk with a 

 vague premedian transverse groove marked with fine impressed lines 

 and on sides with coarse punctures. Scutellum finely and sparsely punc- 

 tate, not reaching tip of abdomen, apex bluntly rounded, disk with a wide 

 punctate depression each side. Length 3.5 — 3.8 mm. 



Denver, Colo., July (Barber). One specimen in the Urbana 

 collection from northern Illinois. Known only from these two 

 states. 



