TRIBE II. — LEPTOCORISCINI. 259 



definite station. Outside of this record it appears, according 

 to Fracker (1918, 258) "to be limited to the territory north of 

 Maryland and east of the Rocky Mountains." He says that it 

 is found throughout Wisconsin, "the immature feeding on 

 sedges and the adults being especially common in low meadows 

 after the first of August and until frost, probably hibernating." 



189 ( — ). Protenor australis Hussey, 1925, 64. 



Smaller and more slender than belfragei. Pale straw-yellow, sub- 

 opaque, thickly marked with small fuscous punctures; sides of head and 

 pronotum with a brown stripe extending from front of cheeks across eyes 

 to humeral angles and more narrowly along costal margin of elytra; 

 membrane brownish translucent, impunctate. Head three times as long 

 as its basal width. Antennae with joints 1 and 2 dull yellow, thickly 

 dotted with red; 3 and 4 reddish without dots; 1 — 3 conspicuously hir- 

 sute; relative lengths 5:6:5:9. Median pale calloused line of pronotum 

 very narrow, percurrent. Hind femora reaching only to fifth ventral. 

 Other characters as in belfragei. Length, 11 — 11.5 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., March 20 ; swept from roadside herb- 

 age (W.S.B.). Ft. Myers, Fla., April 24 (Davis). Known 

 elsewhere only from Gainesville, Fla., and Thomasville, Ga. 



Tribe II. LEPTOCORISINI Stal, 1872a, 54. 



This tribe comprises numerous genera in the Old World but 

 only two in America. Of these one is represented in the south- 

 ern states. 



I. Leptocorisa Latreille, 1829, 197. 



Very slender bodied elongate species having the head por- 

 rect, relatively small and narrow; cheeks subcylindrical, much 

 longer than tylus and contiguous in front of it ; eyes and ocelli 

 very prominent ; antennae very slender, nearly as long as body, 

 the basal joint longest, reaching middle of pronotum, but little 

 swollen toward apex; beak reaching middle coxae, joints 1 and 

 2 subequal, each a little shorter than 3 and 4 united, these also 

 subequal; pronotum with side margins straight, entire, feebly 

 converging from the humeri to apex, which is two-thirds the 

 width of base, their carinas obsolete on apical third ; elytra 

 very long and slender, entirely concealing the abdomen ; hind 

 coxae contiguous ; hind angles of metapleura acute. 



This genus is represented by numerous species in all parts 

 of the world, three of them occurring in neotropical America, 

 one of which extends northward into the southern United 

 States. 



