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FAMILY VI. — COREID>E. 



reddish-brown, the tibiae with a broad yellowish ring at middle. Head 

 three-fourths the length of pronotum, convex, the narrowed front portion 

 obtuse, reaching basal third of first antennal; beak reaching first ventral; 



antenna? with basal joint stout, curved, 

 as long as head, 2 and 4 subequal, third 

 shorter. Pronotum with humeri promi- 

 nent, slightly projected upward, their 

 tips subacute and hind margin feebly 

 toothed ; disk finely and densely punc- 

 tate. Scutellum finely transversely 

 wrinkled. Elytra closely, finely punc- 

 tate. Connexivum very narrowly ex- 

 posed. Hind femora slender, subcla- 

 vate, the tubercles above and spines be- 

 neath relatively small. Hind tibiae with 

 dilations conjointly sublanceo'ate, the 

 inner much the narrower, reaching 

 middle of tibiae, its margin finely 

 toothed ; the outer reaching apical 

 third, its margin with two wide, rather 

 shallow scallops. Length, 18 — 20 mm. ; 

 width, 5.5 — 6 mm. (Fig. 46). 



(After 



Common throughout Florida ; taken by me at nearly all col- 

 lecting stations, Nov. 23 — April 15. Occurs in numbers in 

 spring in the axils of the leaves and on the heads of the yellow- 

 flowered thistle, Carduus spinossisimus Walt. Ranges from Long 

 Island, New York and Virginia south and southwest to Mis- 

 souri, Oklahoma, Arizona and Central America. It is much 

 more abundant in the southern states than is L. oppositus in the 

 north, and has been recorded by Chittenden (1899, 47) as do- 

 ing considerable damage to cotton bolls, cucurbs, potatoes, 

 peaches, oranges and other fruits. Brimley (1907, 440) has 

 taken it at Raleigh, N. Car., on yucca, asparagus and tomatoes. 

 Girault (1906, 382) has given an interesting account of its 

 methods of feeding on grapes. The Anisoscelis albicinctus Say 

 (I, 326) is a synonym. 



Tribe III. LEPTOSCELINI Stal, 1867, 545. 



Elongate-oval species having the head porrect, a little short- 

 er than or equal in length to pronotum, narrowed and pro- 

 duced forward between the bases of antennse, cheeks not ex- 

 ceeding tylus ; antennae slender, half the length of body ; beak 

 surpassing hind coxae, its first joint reaching base of head; buc- 

 culse less than half the length of head; femora all armed be- 



