88 FAMILY IV. — CYDNIDjE. 



England to Colorado, south to Florida and Texas. I have not 

 taken it in Florida, but it has been recorded from Crescent City, 

 Biscayne Bay, LaBelle and Everglade, and probably occurs 

 sparingly throughout the State. Uhler (loc. cit.) records it 

 from Cuba, but perhaps confused it with pusio Stal. He states 

 (1877, 371) that "in the Black Mountain range of North Car- 

 olina and Tennessee it has been met with in large numbers." 

 Hart records it from central and southern Illinois, but not 

 from the northern part of that State, and it occurs very rarely 

 in both Iowa and Nebraska. The submarginal teeth of cheeks 

 are distinctly longer, the transverse groove of pronotum deeper 

 and more sharply limited, and the area in front of it more dis- 

 tinctly punctate in this species than in A. pal I id us Zimm. 



49 ( — ). Amnestus PUSIO (Stal), 1860, 14. 



I refer to this species a number of minute specimens taken in 

 Florida. They are more narrowly elongate than in pusillus, and have 

 the front portion of pronotum shorter, with side margins less flattened. 

 Length, 1.8 mm. ; width, 1 mm. 



Dunedin, Royal Palm Park and Ft. Myers, Fla., Dec. 10 — 

 March 28 ; taken from the mucky margins of ponds beneath 

 decaying remains of pickerel weed ; also at electric light. 

 Described from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and recorded from the 

 West Indies, but not before taken in this country. 



50 (69). Amnestus pallidus Zimmer, 1910, 166. 



Form and size of pusillus. Pale chestnut-or reddish-brown. Head 

 as in pusillus, each cheek with five shorter, comb-like teeth. Pronotum 

 with front portion a little longer, more convex, a transverse row of 

 punctures near its front margin and a few on 

 cides, elsewhere very sparsely and finely punc- 

 tate; transverse groove wider, more shallow, 

 less well defined, coarsely punctate, the basal 

 area behind it with punctures less coarse and 

 more sparse. Scutellum and elytra more finely 

 and sparsely punctate than in pusillus; corium 

 with apex trisinuate, its outer apical angle sub- 

 acute, surpassing the abdomen. Abdomen finely 

 pubescent. Front femora of female with a large 

 bifid tooth at basal third of lower surface; tibiae 

 more pubescent than in pusillus. Length, 2.2 — 

 Fig. 15, : l?,. (Original). 2.7 mm.; width, 1.1—1.3 mm. (Fig. 15). 



Widely distributed but nowhere common in southern 

 Indiana; Starke County only in the north, April 17 — Aug. 9. 



