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short, wide, not overlapping base of beak ; antennae nearly half 

 the length of body, joints 1, 2 and 4 subequal, 3 shortest; 

 pronotum convex, its disk with a median lengthwise impressed 

 line; abdomen with sides subparallel, not suddenly widely in- 

 flated, the connexivum rather widely exposed ; membrane as 

 in generic key; hind margin of metasternal plate straight. 

 Female with median and lateral apical genital plates large, 

 subequal, porrect, acute, and in connection with acute angles 

 of sixth ventral, giving the tip of abdomen a strongly serrated 

 appearance. Genital plate of male broadly scoop-shaped. Other 

 characters as under tribal heading. 



Nine nominal species are recorded by Stal (1870, 177) from 

 tropical America, and three by Van Duzee from the United 

 States. Of these he lists two from Florida, one of these, 6". 

 gundlachi (Guer.), a Cuban species, only on the "Fla." record 

 of the Banks Catalogue. No definite accurate record of its 

 occurrence in Florida can be found, and it is therefore not here- 

 with included. 



171 (281). Sephina grayi Van Duzee, 1909a, 232. 



Elongate-oval, depressed above, convex beneath. Color orange-yel- 

 low and black. Head black with an oblique line behind each eye, yellow; 

 antenna?, a large median semicircular spot on basal half of pronotum, 

 extreme tips of humeri, scutellum, membrane and a rounded spot on each 

 connexival segment, black; elsewhere above orange-yellow; under sur- 

 face orange-yellow, the pleura each with a large black spot, that of 

 propleura circular, the others subquadrate, prolonged within; ventrals 

 each with a subcircular black spot near each basal angle and opposite 

 these, within, a larger irregular one prolonged toward middle along the 

 base of the segment; beak and legs, genital plate of male and basal 

 genital plates of female, black. Pronotum very finely and densely punc- 

 tate, the black spot on base with scattered coarse punctures intermingled 

 with the fine ones. Scutellum and elytra finely and densely punctate, 

 each fine puncture of the upper surface bearing a minute erect hair. 

 Other structural characters as under generic heading. Length, 16 — 18 

 mm. ; width, 6 — 7 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Jan. 20 — April 6. On the former date 44 adults 

 and two nymphs were beaten from a large mass of the dead 

 stems of the slender twining milkweed, Metastelma scoparium 

 Nutt., near the margin of a wet densely wooded hammock and 

 it has since been taken on several occasions from the same 

 plant. On the latter date three were beaten from elder near 

 the same place. Described from "Florida," and recorded by 

 Barber from Miami and Georgiana. Not known outside of that 



