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reddish; connexivum orange-yellow with a round black spot on the inner 

 end of each incisure and a black point on the outer end; under surface 

 pale dull yellow, spiracles and the hind angle of each ventral black; 

 legs yellow, the tibia? and tarsi reddish. Head distinctly shorter and 

 broader than in humeralis, its apex more broadly rounded, the cheeks 

 overlapping in front of tylus ; second joint of antennae two-thirds or more 

 the length of third, the latter subequal to fourth, the fifth one-third 

 shorter. Pronotum with disk rather sparsely, unevenly punctate. Scutel- 

 lum similarly punctate, its apical third wider than in humeralis, the tip 

 much more broadly rounded. Elytra minutely alutaceous, finely, evenly, 

 not closely punctate. Sculpture of under surface as in humeralis. Length, 

 6.5 — 8.5 mm.; width, 4.5 — 6 mm. 



Ormond, Sanford and Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 25 — April 24. 

 Van Duzee and Barber have recorded it from numerous other 

 stations and it doubtless occurs throughout the eastern and 

 southern portions of the State. About Dunedin it is common 

 in spring in both nymph and adult stages on oak sprouts, 

 huckleberry and other low shrubs. It is a trim-bodied and 

 prettily marked little bug, easily distinguished from humeralis 

 by the characters given in key. At Ft. Myers and Estero, Van 

 Duzee (1909, 158) found it "abundant with its young on the 

 scrub oaks which grew wherever the pine forests had been cut 

 away." Outside of Florida it has been recorded definitely only 

 from Wilmington, N. Car., where Engelhardt found it, Aug. 1, 

 on young oaks. The New Mexico record of Uhler (1904, 351) 

 belongs to a species since described by Barber as D. reticulatus. 



XXV. Brepholoxa Van Duzee, 1904, 78. 



Medium sized, elongate-oval species having the head porrect, 

 longer than wide ; cheeks exceeding tylus, approaching or con- 

 tiguous in front of it; antennae slender, the second joint one- 

 half longer than third, the latter subequal to fourth, the fifth 

 slightly shorter ; bucculae with a prominent tooth at their apical 

 third ; beak surpassing middle coxae, its second and third joints 

 subequal, fourth shorter ; pronotum with front half moderately 

 declivent, side margins almost straight, finely crenulate, humeri 

 acutely pointed ; scutellum with sides feebly sinuate near 

 middle, beyond that strongly tapering, the tip narrowly 

 rounded ; membrane hyaline, not surpassing abdomen ; con- 

 nexivum rather broadly exposed ; spine of second ventral reach- 

 ing hind coxae; osteolar opening with a short, obtusely pointed 

 auricle ; tibiae not sulcate. Genital plate of male convex at 



