254 FAMILY VI. — COREID^E. 



base of scutellum. Connexivum widely exposed. Membrane slightly pass- 

 ing tip of abdomen. Genital plate of male scoop-shaped, its basal half 

 strongly convex. Length, 13 — 14 mm.; width, 5.5 mm. 



Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 31 ; collected on Melothria pendula L. 

 (Barber). Described from South Carolina and Texas and not 

 recorded elsewhere. Closely resembles Anasa tristis but easily 

 distinguished by the shorter beak and very small antenniferous 

 tubercles. 



Subfamily III. PSEUDOPHLCEINiE Stal, 1867, 535. 



The members of this subfamily have the head convex, tri- 

 angular, three-fourths or more the width of pronotum, nar- 

 rowed, feebly declivent and prolonged forward in front of an- 

 tennas; disks of pronotum, scutellum and elytra roughly granu- 

 late, each granule or puncture bearing a small appressed seta ; 

 membrane with curved basal vein remote from the margin, the 

 veinlets arising from it anastomosing at base, forked near 

 apex ; osteola with margins compressed between the sub-con- 

 tigucus middle and hind coxae, the outer portion prolonged lat- 

 erally slightly beyond them, without an auricle but with edges 

 thickened and apex rounded ; tibiae terete, not sulcate or di- 

 lated. 



Eight genera are recognized by Stal (1870, 219; 1873, 81). 

 six from the Old World and two from the United States. Both 

 of these are represented in the eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN - GENERA OP PSEUDOPHLCEIN.E. 



a. Joints 2 and 3 of antenna? subequal; beak not reaching middle coxa?; 

 humeral angles rounded, unarmed; larger, length, 10 — 13 mm. 



I. Ceraleptus. 



aa. Joint 2 of antenna? distinctly shorter than 3; beak reaching between 



middle coxa?; humeral angles with an acute fuscous tooth; smaller, 



not over 9 mm. II. Coriomeris. 



I. Ceraleptus Costa, 1847, 11. 



Elongate-oval species of medium size, possessing the char- 

 acters of the subfamily as above set forth and having the tylus 

 convex, longer than cheeks, deflexed in front of them ; anten- 

 niferous tubercles small, not prominent, armed on the outer 

 side with a small curved obtuse spine ; antennae short, stout, 

 joint 1 subclavate, half the length of head, 2 and 3 slightly 

 longer, subequal, 4 fusiform, shortest; beak stout, joint 2 but 



