220 FAMILY VI. — COREID^. 



joints 1 — 3 reddish-brown, 1 much longer than head, triquetrous, dis- 

 tinctly curved; 2 and 3 dilated and triquetrous at middle, slender at each 

 end, the edges of the dilated portions finely serrate; 4 paler, subfusiform, 

 almost as long as 3. Pronotum finely, rather closely, unevenly reticulate- 

 punctate; scutellum and elytra similarly but more coarsely punctate. 

 Length, 16 — 18 mm. 



Palm Beach, Fla., June 14 (U. S. Nat. Mus.) . A West Indian 

 species recorded in this country only from Palm Beach, Geor- 

 giana and Key Largo, Fla. Easily known by the peculiar form 

 of antennal segments. 



II. Leptoglossus Guerin, 1838, 174. 



Elongate, subdepressed species having the head long, por- 

 rect, prolonged and narrowed in front of the bases of antennae; 

 eyes large, globose ; ocelli small, separated more widely from 

 one another than from the eyes; antennae with basal joint 

 stout, curved, subclavate, usually about as long as head, thickly 

 beset with short bristles, remaining joints more slender, the 

 third usually the shortest ; beak surpassing metasternum, 

 joints 1, 2 and 4 subequal, 3 shorter; bucculae short, narrow, 

 located opposite base of antennae; pronotum subhexagonal, 

 widest across the humeri, the sides thence strongly converging 

 to apex, which is less than half the greatest width, front por- 

 tion strongly declivent, the angle of humeri variable as to spe- 

 cies; scutellum triangular, about as broad at base as long; 

 apex of corium very long, oblique, sinuate, its outer angle 

 acute ; membrane slightly surpassing the abdomen, its veins 

 very numerous, many of them forked ; connexivum usually 

 widely exposed and reflexed, the dorsum thus concave beyond 

 the middle of elytra ; middle and hind coxae widely separated ; 

 femora spined beneath, the hind ones moderately swollen, 

 tuberculate above and on sides ; dilations of hind tibiae wide, 

 their margins more or less scalloped ; spiracles placed near the 

 middle of the ends of the ventral segments. 



The genus is a large one, 23 species being recognized by Stal 

 (1870, 160) from North and South America. Nine are known 

 from the United States, six from east of the Mississippi. 4 ' 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF LEPTOGLOSSUS. 



a. Pronotum coarsely rugosely punctate, its humeri very prominent, 



"A single specimen of Leptoglossus balteatus (Fabr.), a Cuban species, labelled 

 "Florida.'' is in the U. S. National Museum collection. It is probably an adventive 

 Individual as no other record of its occurrence in this country can be found. 



