SUBFAMILY II. — COREIN.E. 



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notum subhexagonal, front side margins feebly sinuate, armed with very 

 short blunt teeth; humeri prominent, broadly rounded, their margins en- 

 tire; disk with a vague longitudinal median impression, the basal two- 

 thirds densely rather coarsely punctate, with fine transverse rugae be- 

 tween the punctures. Scutellum with similar sculpture. Elytra finely, 

 sparsely irregularly punctate. Abdomen rather widely inflated, the con- 

 nexivum broadly exposed and reflexed. Hind femora of female rather 

 slender, armed beneath with two rows of short tubercle-like teeth ; of 

 male strongly swollen without bristly hairs and with very minute tu- 

 bercles above, the median tooth on inner edge of lower surface much 

 longer and stouter than the others. Hind tibiae compressed, those of 

 female straight, armed beneath with numerous short teeth; of male as 

 described under generic heading. Length, 18 — 21 mm.; width, 6 — 7.5 mm. 



Sanford and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 29 — April 12. Recorded 

 from numerous stations in Florida and probably occurs 

 throughout the State. About Dunedin it hibernates beneath 

 piles of weeds and other cover and in spring occurs especially 

 on flowers of the dwarf papaw, Asimina parviflora Michx., and 

 other low shrubs. The females are much the more numerous. 

 One of them, taken in November, has the margins of pronotum 

 and sides of abdomen tinged with fuscous. The membrane has 

 a very handsome silken-bronzed lustre. Described from ''Caro- 

 lina" and correctly recorded since only from Florida, though 

 doubtless of wider range in the southern states. 



166 (271). Archimerus alternatus 

 (Say), 1825, 317; II, 243. 



Form and size of A. calcarator. 

 Dull clay-yellow, marked with fuscous 

 punctures ; membrane fuscous-brown ; 

 antennae and femora tinged with fus- 

 cous ; connexivum fuscous or dark 

 brown, the basal third of each segment 

 dull yellow. Beak a little longer than 

 in calcarator, reaching middle of meso- 

 sternum; bucculae longer and narrower 

 than there. Antennae with basal joint 

 stouter, equal in length to joint 2, 3 and 

 4 shorter, subequal. Pronotum as in cal- 

 carator, the disk without transverse 

 rugae as there, but with the larger 

 punctures sparsely unevenly placed, 

 each surrounded by a feebly calloused 

 ring. Hind femora of male a little 

 shorter, more swollen, its upper side 

 with bristly hairs and more prominent 



