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161 (251). Leptoglossus ashmeadi Heidemann, 1909, 237. 



Elongate-oval, small for the genus, subdepressed above. Black, 

 shining; pronotum orange-yellow, the front margin, a convex trans- 

 verse bar behind it and a large elliptical area on elevated basal half 

 black; elytra with prominent orange cross-bar just behind the tips of 

 the clavi ; tip of scutellum and basal half of each connexival segment 



orange; under surface orange-yellow, 

 the sixth ventral and genital plate 

 black; legs blue-black, the middle of 

 hind tibiae paler. Head elongate, con- 

 vex, the triangular front portion ob- 

 tuse, not reaching basal third of first 

 antennal; beak scarcely reaching hind 

 coxa?; antennae relatively stout; joint 

 1 curved, as long as head, 2 and 4 sub- 

 equal, each nearly one-half longer than 

 third. Pronotum with front margin 

 narrower than head, humeri prominent, 

 acute, projected slightly upward, their 

 hind margin finely toothed ; disk finely 

 and densely punctate, with minute 

 rugae between the punctures. Scutellum 

 with numerous fine transverse ridges. 

 Elytra finely and closely, confluently 

 punctate. Hind femora straight, cla- 



Fig. 45, C3. (After Heidemann). yate> mQre swollen in the male> the 



tubercles and teeth prominent. Dilations of hind tibiae as in oppositus but 

 a little shorter. Length, 14 — 16 mm.; width, 5 — 6 mm. (Fig. 45). 



Dunedin, Fla., April 1 ; eight adults and several nymphs 

 beaten from a large bunch of mistletoe, Phoradendron flavescens 

 (Pursh.), on an oak tree growing in dry sandy upland. De- 

 scribed from St. Nicholas, Fla., and taken by Van Duzee at 

 Green Springs, these being the only recorded stations. None 

 of my examples show the narrow orange stripes on head men- 

 tioned by Heidemann. An easily recognized and very hand- 

 some species. 



162 (244). Leptoglossus phyllopus (Linnaeus), 1767, 731. 



Size and form of oppositus. Above chestnut-brown, thinly clothed 

 with very fine, short, appressed yellow hairs; three narrow stripes on 

 head, and front side margins of pronotum, dull yellow; joints 1 and 4 

 of antennae in part or wholly fuscous, 2 and 3 yellow; elytra with an 

 ivory-white cross-bar opposite base of membrane; tip of scutellum, in- 

 cisures of connexivum and several small spots on dilations of hind tibiae, 

 whitish-yellow; under surface reddish-brown mottled with numerous 

 blackish dots and thickly pubescent with short silvery-white hairs; legs 



