SUBFAMILY III. — PSEUDOPHLCEIN^. 255 



slightly surpassing the head, subequal to 3 and 4 united, 3 the 

 shortest ; ocelli small, separated more widely than the distance 

 between them and eye ; pronotum subquadrate, one-third wider 

 than long, side margins slightly sinuate, feebly converging 

 from the bluntly rounded humeri to apex, their edge granulate, 

 not carinate ; membrane reaching tip of abdomen, its veins as 

 described above ; abdomen moderately dilated near middle, the 

 connexivum rather widely exposed, reflexed ; legs short, stout, 

 middle femora armed with one or two small spines ; hind ones 

 subclavate, shorter than abdomen, armed beneath near apex 

 with 3 — 5 unequal spines. 



Two species are known, one confined to the Pacific Coast 

 States, the other ranging from Indiana and Florida westward. 



186 (332). Ceraleptus americanus Stal, 1870, 219. 



Elongate-oval, depressed above, convex beneath. Above grayish-yel- 

 low marked with numerous fuscous punctures; head fuscous with a 

 median line along the tylus and a narrower one each side dull yellow; 

 antenna? reddish-brown, the last two joints dusky; membrane fuscous 

 with vague yellowish markings ; connexivum dull yellow mottled with 

 fuscous ; under surface dull yellow the sides of abdomen with two in- 

 terrupted fuscous stripes, the inner one the wider; femora dull yellow 

 mottled with fuscous; tarsi and tip of beak fuscous. Structural char- 

 acters as given above. Length, 10 — 13 mm.; width, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Vigo Co., Ind., Dec. 10 — March 28. One specimen taken on 

 each of three occasions in 1893 from beneath logs on the side 

 of a high sandy hill near the old canal, five miles north of Terre 

 Haute. Recorded by me (1895, 269) but Indiana not included 

 in the Van Duzee Catalogue notes. Dunedin, Fla., March 24 ; 

 one specimen swept from herbage along the bay front. Barber 

 records it from Lake Worth, Fla., these being the only records 

 from east of the Mississippi. Described from Texas and known 

 also from Utah, Arizona, California and Mexico. Uhler (1876. 

 300) says that old specimens from the West "are almost black, 

 with antennae wholly black and pale bands of connexivum very 

 distinct." 



II. Coriomeris Westwood, 1842, 6. 



Oblong-oval, pubescent species differing from Ceraleptus by 

 the characters given in the key, and having the head less pro- 

 longed in front of antennae, more subquadrate ; antennae short- 

 er, stouter, with joint 1 coarsely granulate and hirsute ; prono- 



