234 FAMILY VI. — COREIDjE. 



vum reddish-brown, the margins of segments fuscous, irregularly mottled 

 with yellow; membrane seal-brown or fuscous-brown; under surface and 

 legs clay-yellow or reddish-brown, sprinkled with fuscous dots, the hind 

 tibia? paler, immaculate. Pronotum with humeri prominent, rounded, 

 their margins crenulate; disk finely, unevenly not densely punctate. Scu- 

 tellum finely transversely rugose. Elytra punctate like pronotum, each 

 puncture enclosing a minute yellowish scale. Other characters as above 

 given. Length, 15 — 17 mm.; width, 5 — 6.5 mm. (Fig. 48). 



Frequent throughout Indiana, more so in the southern 

 counties, April 10 — Oct. 1. Occurs in summer and autumn on 

 the foliage of shrubs and leaves along the slopes of hills and 

 borders of thickets and roadsides. One was taken April 10 

 from beneath a log on the margin of a sandy cultivated field, so 

 that it may hibernate as imago. Occurs throughout Florida, 

 having been taken by me at all collecting stations except Cape 

 Sable, Key West and Chokoloskee, and listed from numerous 

 others. About Dunedin it occurs in spring most frequently on 

 sedges and weeds along the margins of lakes and ponds. The 

 Florida specimens are more reddish-brown, less mottled with 

 fuscous and with membrane paler than those from Indiana, the 

 ground color of the latter being dull clay-yellow, the membrane 

 dark fuscous-brown. Its known range is from New England 

 west to Wisconsin and Illinois, south and southwest to Florida, 

 Kansas and Texas. Nothing regarding its native food plants 

 can be found in available literature. 



Tribe V. MENENOTINI Bergroth, 1913b, 147. 



Large broadly oval or elongate oval species having the head 

 quadrate, wider than long; cheeks and tylus equal, abruptly 

 strongly deflexecl ; antenniferous tubercles prominent, without 

 spine at sides, the space between them narrow, unfilled ; beak 

 short, but slightly surpassing front coxae; abdomen more or 

 less inflated, the connexivum widely exposed and reflexed, the 

 dorsum therefore appearing strongly concave ; legs short, 

 slender, all the femora and tibia? unarmed ; hind coxse sepa- 

 rated by a space equal to their distance from the margins of 

 the body. 



Since the genus Mencnotus Laporte (1832, 42) is the oldest of 

 the five genera belonging to the tribe, the tribal name, as 

 pointed out by Bergroth, should be that above given, not 

 Corecorini as used by Van Duzee (1917, 97). Two of the genera 

 are represented in our territory. 



