236 FAMILY VI. — COREIDjE. 



S.B.). Recorded from numerous stations in southern Florida 

 and as far north as Lake City. Found on weeds and fences in 

 or about gardens or margins of orange groves and cultivated 

 fields; also beneath rubbish. Known in this country only from 

 Florida, Arizona and California. Stal (1870, 174) made Say's 

 Coreus confluentus, described (1832, 11) from Mexico, a synonym 

 of fitsats, but Van Duzee (1909, 159) dissented, stating that 

 "it is sufficiently distinct to be given specific rank," but not 

 giving any separating characters. Specimens from Orizaba, 

 Mexico, named fuscus for me by Uhler, show no structural 

 differences separating them from what has been called C. con- 

 fluentus from Florida. Barber (1923a, 18) gives it as his 

 opinion that the two are the same and they are therefore com- 

 bined under the older name. 



170 (278). Corecoris diffusus (Say), 1832, 11; I, 325. 



Broadly oval, depressed above, convex beneath, widest behind the 

 middle. Dark brown or fuscous; scutellum in part or wholly blackish; 

 elytra dull brownish-yellow; connexivum reddish-brown or paler, the 

 upper basal angle of each segment darker; under surface in great part 

 fuscous, the margins of abdomen and propleura sometimes dull reddish- 

 yellow; antenna?, beak and legs fuscous-black, the coxae and base of 

 femora often paler. Antenna? as described in key, the joints very hairy. 

 Pronotum with front half strongly declivent, its side margins straight or 

 nearly so, their edge roughened; humeri very broadly rounded, their 

 margins entire; disk with more or less matted pubescence and fine trans- 

 verse rugae almost concealing the small scattered punctures. Abdomen 

 widely dilated, the connexivum very broadly exposed. Length, 17 — 20 

 mm. ; width, 7 — 8 mm. 



Southern Pines, N. Car., July 6 — Sept. 7 (Brimley). De- 

 scribed from Savannah, Ga., its known range extending from 

 North Carolina to Texas and New Mexico. Uhler and Van 

 Duzee have recorded it from Florida without definite station. 

 Uhler wrongfully placed it as a synonym of C. cinnamomeus 

 Hahn (1833, 15), a Brazilian species. C. diffusus is easily dis- 

 tinguished from fuscus by its darker color, lack of black lines 

 on pronotum, different relative lengths of antennal joints and 

 straight sides of front half of pronotum, the humeri being less 

 projected upward. 



II. Sephina Amyot & Serville, 1843, 185. 



Elongate-oval species of medium size, having the head very 

 short, convex; beak reaching nearly to middle coxae; bucculas 



