248 FAMILY VI. — COREIDiE. 



179 ( — ). Catorhintha divergens Barber, 1926a, 214. 



Elongate, subparallel. Color a nearly uniform pale clay yellow; eyes 

 and joint 4 of antenna? fuscous-brown; ocelli red; edge of costal mar- 

 gin greenish; dorsum pale yellow with a red stripe each side of middle; 

 tibiae and tarsi tinged with fuscous. Joint 1 of antennas subclavate, dis- 

 tinctly curved, slightly longer than width of vertex, its posterior face 

 with two rows of setigerous granules; 2 and 3 much more slender, 2 one- 

 half longer than 3, 4 stouter, fusiform, slightly longer than 3. Prono- 

 tum distinctly broader and less convex than in viridipes, sides straight 

 and feebly converging from base to apex; disk with a transverse impres- 

 sion at apical third, behind this a fine median carina and thickly beset 

 with yellowish granulate punctures. Scutellum and elytra similarly 

 granulate-punctate. Length, 12 mm. 



Tampico, Mexico, Dec. 18 (Barber). Taken at Paradise Key, 

 Fla., Feb. 21, by Schwarz and Barber. Known also from Cuba. 



IV. Anasa Amyot & Serville, 1843, 209. 



Elongate-oval species of medium size having the head sub- 

 quadrate, calloused behind the eyes; tylus longer than cheeks 

 and with them somewhat compressed and moderately declivent 

 in front of antenniferous tubercles; beak reaching or passing 

 middle coxae; antennae slender, half the length of body, basal 

 joint moderately swollen, feebly curved, about as long or 

 slightly longer than head, 2 and 3 more slender, the second 

 longest, fourth fusiform, shorter than third ; pronotum sub- 

 hexagonal, but little longer than wide, the apex one-half or less 

 the greatest width, front portion strongly declivent, its side 

 margins entire or finely serrulate ; corium with apex oblique, 

 feebly sinuate, its outer angle subacute ; membrane reaching or 

 passing tip of abdomen, its veins mostly forked; connexivum 

 usually widely exposed ; femora slender, usually unarmed ; hind 

 margin of metasternal pleurite straight ; space between the 

 hind coxae less than half that between them and sides of meta- 

 sternum. Other characters as in generic key and under tribal 

 heading. 



Thirty or more species have been described from America, 

 seven of which are known from the United States. Of these 

 five occur in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF AXASA. 



a. Head armed behind the base of antennae with a spine or tubercle. 

 b. Tubercle behind base of antennae very small; head black with a 

 median pale line; femora unarmed beneath. 



