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FAMILY VII. — CORISCID^. 



(Original). 



cate basal margin not wider than scutellum and with a small median 

 callosity. Scutellum and corium rather coarsely sparsely punctate, 

 clavi more closely so. Length, 14 — 16 mm.; width, 3.2 — 4 mm. (Fig. 54). 



Duneclin, Miami and Cape Sable, Fla., 

 Nov. 19 — March 11; three beaten from 

 buttonwood and beach grape on Hog 

 Island, the others swept from tall dead 

 grasses along a low meadow. A West 

 Indian species, recorded by Barber 

 from five additional Florida stations, 

 all near the coast of the southern third 

 of the State. 



II. Megalotomus Fieber, 1861, 58. 



Elongate-slender species having the 

 head declivent, flat, triangular, about 

 as long as pronotum ; ocelli and eyes 

 prominent; antenna? very slender, half 

 or more the length of body, first joint 

 passing apex of head, second slightly longer than third, fourth 

 stouter, as long as or but little shorter than 2 and 3 united; 

 beak slightly surpassing middle coxse, the fourth joint slightly 

 longer than third ; pronotum subquadrate, moderately decli- 

 vent, disk with side margins feebly sinuate, their edge carinate ; 

 abdomen not wider than elytra ; hind coxae separated by a dis- 

 tance equal to their width ; hind femora but little swollen, 

 reaching apex of abdomen, armed beneath on outer margin 

 with a row of stout spines. 



Two species are known, one from tropical America, the other 

 from our territory. 



192 (320). Megalotomus quinquespinosus (Say), 1824, 323; II, 247. 



Elongate, slender, depressed above, convex beneath. Color variable 

 ranging from dull yellow, thickly mottled with fuscous to a near'y uni- 

 form dull red, those of the first named hue with base of head, narrow 

 margins and numerous small blotches on disk of pronotum, scutellum ex- 

 cept tip, under surface and apical half of hind femora, blackish-fuscous; 

 the red form with a curved bar between the eyes and the carina? of pro- 

 notum and middle of abdomen fuscous; antennae in both forms reddish, 

 the tips of joints 2 and 3 and apical two-thirds of 4 fuscous, the basal 

 third of latter dull yellow ; under surface of head and sterna in both 

 black. Pronotum with humeri prominent, acute; disk finely and densely 

 punctate and with a vague wide median lengthwise depression ; pos- 



