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FAMILY VI. — COREID^E. 



trals in part blackish ; legs yellow mottled with black points and dots. 

 Basal joint of antennae half the length of head. Pronotum finely, evenly 

 and rather closely punctate, more sparsely so on apical third, with very 

 small irregular, slightly elevated smooth spaces between the punctures. 

 Scutellum similarly sculptured. Elytra more finely, evenly and rather 

 closely punctate. Length, 8 — 9 mm.; width, 2.5 — 2.7 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., scarce, Feb. 7 — April 24. Occurs especially 

 on the flowers and foliage of a tall scurfy ericad, Xolisma fer- 

 ruginea (Walt.) which grows in clumps in dry sandy open 

 woods ; also taken in some numbers from beneath a gunny sack 

 in an orange grove. Barber records it from Crescent City, 

 Sevenoaks, Biscayne Bay, Miami and Jacksonville, so that it 

 probably occurs throughout the State. A West Indian species, 

 ranging in this country from Florida to Colorado, Texas and 

 Arizona. 



The connexivum in all my Florida specimens is distinctly 

 alternated with black and pale yellow, but Van Duzee (1907, 

 12) says that in most of those found in Jamaica it is immacu- 

 late. The abdomen in some specimens is devoid of black spots 

 except the row of small round ones each side, in others it is 

 rather thickly sprinkled with small black dots and dashes. 



177 (296). Catorhintha mendica Stal, 1870, 187. 



Form of guttula but larger. Color above much as there, the fuscous 

 punctures coarser and, especially on pronotum, more evenly distributed ; 

 connexivum alternated with black and orange-yellow; antenna? as in gut- 

 tula; under surface darker, the abdomen in 

 some specimens almost wholly black, in others 

 reddish- or greenish-yellow, thickly and evenly 

 mottled with black spots, the row of round 

 spots along the sides larger; legs more thickly 

 mottled or banded with black, the tarsi and 

 apical fourth of tibiae wholly fuscous-black. 

 Basal joint of antenna? stouter, two-thirds the 

 length of head. Pronotum with disk in front 

 of humeri more quadrate, more convex, less 

 declivent and distinctly more evenly punc- 

 tate. Scutellum with numerous transverse 

 wrinkles between the rows of punctures. 

 Length, 10—12 mm.; width, 3.3 — 3.7 mm. 

 (Original). (Fig. 50). 



Marion and Knox counties, Ind., June 6 — Oct. 14; swept 

 from railway embankments and along the banks of the White 

 and Wabash rivers. On both dates mentioned, as well as 

 others, it was taken in some numbers and in all stages on its 



