SUBFAMILY II. — COREIN^E. 



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Tallulah, La., on cotton (U. S. Nat. Mus.). A neotropical 

 species described from Cuba and recorded in this country from 

 Florida, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico. Uhler (1875, 293) 

 records it from southern Florida without definite station. Oc- 

 curs also in southern California, Mexico, Central America and 

 Colombia. It is smaller, more narrow and parallel than tristis, 

 with median pale line of pronotum entire and apical joint of 

 antennse yellowish. 



182 (306). Anasa scorbutica (Fabricius), 1775, 706. 



Elongate, slightly widened behind middle of abdomen. Pale straw- 

 yellow, thickly, evenly and rather finely punctate, each puncture en- 

 c'osing a minute golden yellow hair ; membrane dark brown ; femora and 

 tibia? with rows of purplish-brown dots; ventrals minutely punctate, 

 finely pubescent. Antennas wholly yellow, joints 1 — 3 thickly clothed 

 with short, inclined bristle-like brown hairs; 2 and 3 subequal, each but 

 little longer than 1. Connexivum rather broadly exposed. Length, 12 — 

 14 mm. 



Brownsville, Tex., June (U. S.Nat. Mus.) . Recorded from 

 Biscayne Bay, Fla. ; also from Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico and 

 the West Indies. 



183 (307). Anasa armigera (Say), 1825, 319; II, 244. 



Elongate-oblong, depressed above, convex beneath. Above dull yel- 

 low, thickly marked with fuscous punctures, each of which bears a mi- 

 nute appressed yellow- 

 ish hair; antenna? with 

 basal joint pale yellow 

 dotted with black, 2 and 

 3 black, pale at base 

 and tip, 4 pale yellow; 

 corium and basal half 

 of pronotum sometimes 

 wholly or in great part 

 fuscous; mem- 

 brane bronze - brown; 

 connexivum black, the 

 basal fourth or more of 

 each segment pale yel- 

 low; under surface 

 greenish-yellow marked 



in profile from with fine, rather sparse 

 9, nymphs in reddigh . blwn pum> 



tures each of which 

 bears a yellowish hair ; abdomen with widely scattered black dots ; legs 

 pale yellow thickly marked with larger black dots and small points. Head 

 with a pair of long acuminate suberect, feebly divergent spines. Basal 



52. a, adult X 2 : h & hi, 

 side and above ; c, sculpture of egg : d 

 various stages X 2. (After Chittenden 



