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longer than cheeks, compressed and deflexed between them; 

 antennas stout, basal joint feebly curved, slightly longer than 

 head, 3 and 4 subequal, each about one-third shorter than 2, 

 which is the longest; beak very short and stout, but slightly 

 surpassing front coxae, its joints subequal; bucculae rather 

 wide, half the length of head, their edges parallel ; pronotum 

 with front side margins strongly converging from humeri to 

 apex, the latter less than one-third the greatest width, pos- 

 terior side margins sinuate from tip of humeri to the subtrun- 

 cate base, the latter not wider than scutellum, its lateral angles 

 obsolete; prosternum grooved behind front coxae, the groove 

 with margins elevated, enclosing the tip of beak ; femora short, 

 stout, armed beneath with a few short teeth, the hind ones 

 moderately swollen, their tips in female scarcely reaching fifth 

 ventral ; tibiae longer than femora, the hind ones feebly toothed 

 beneath ; spiracles placed nearer the front than hind margins 

 of ventral segments. 



About a dozen species have been described from Tropical 

 America, five of which range northward into our southwestern 

 states. Our single eastern species belongs to the subgenus 

 Rhombogaster Dallas (1852, 379), characterized mainly by its 

 widely inflated subrhomboidal abdomen. 



164 (266). Mozena obesa Montandon, 1899, 190. 



Elongate or broadly oval, widest behind the middle of abdomen. Dark 

 reddish-brown; head and pronotum clouded with fuscous; antennae fus- 

 cous-brown; connexivum fuscous, its incisures in part paler; membrane 

 seal-brown the narrow tip yellowish-hyaline; abdomen with sides fus- 

 cous, the middle reddish-brown clouded with fuscous; sternal pleura uni- 

 form reddish-brown ; legs fuscous-brown. Pronotum with front side 

 margins sinuate, or subconcave, armed with short, bluntly rounded teeth; 

 humeri prominent, prolonged outward and a little upward, their tips sub- 

 acute; disk densely finely rugose, the punctures between the rugse each 

 enclosing a minute, white hair-like scale. Scutellum transverse'y rugose 

 and coarsely punctate. Elytra more finely and sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures each with a white scale. Abdomen widely inflated, the con- 

 nexivum broadly exposed and reflexed, the dorsum therefore appearing 

 deeply concave. Other characters as under generic heading. Length, 

 20—22 mm.; width, 7—8.5 mm. 



Lakeland, Fla., March 2, beaten from bunches of Spanish 

 moss {IV. S. B.). Described from "Florida" and listed by Bar- 

 ber from Jacksonville and Enterprise. Not recorded outside of 

 that State. 



