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FAMILY VIII. — CORIZID^E. 



v*- 



Fig. 61. Male X 7. 

 (After Hambleton). 



at hand the connexivum is yellow or orange with black spots, 

 in the darker individuals these spots being - very prominent. 



207 (346). Corizus sidjE (Fabricius), 1794, 169. 



Oblong-oval, rather thickly pubescent. Above dull grayish-yellow 

 to dark brown, often rather thickly sprinkled with brown or reddish 



dots; head sometimes with a median 



\S brownish line extending back to pronotal 



/ impression; terminal joint of antennae in 



great part fuscous; dorsum with black 

 bars across segments 3 — 5, these separat- 

 ed on connexivum by narrow pale lines; 

 sixth segment usually wholly pale in fe- 

 male, with a median dark stripe, male; 

 membrane hyaline, surpassing the abdo- 

 men, sometimes sprinkled with reddish 

 dots ; under surface yellow, thickly mot- 

 tled with reddish-brown spots; mesoster- 

 num blackish at middle; femora annulate 

 with black; tibiae and tarsi with blackish 

 dots. Head short, its apex bluntly trian- 

 gular; basal joint of antennae not reach- 

 ing its tip, second longest, third and 

 fourth subequal. Pronotum with basal 

 portion convex, rather strongly declivent; 

 sides distinctly converging, the apex two-thirds the width of base; disk 

 finely and densely punctate, usually with scattered minute reddish 

 tubercles, the smooth median line fine, distinct throughout. Scutellum 

 similarly sculptured, the tip narrow. Abdomen short, dilated at mid- 

 dle, the connexivum relatively widely exposed. Length, 4.5 — 6.3 mm.; 

 width, 2—3 mm. (Fig. 61). 



Dunedin, Ft. Myers, Utopia, Royal Palm Park and Key West, 

 Fla., Nov. 21 — April 5. Frequent about Dunedin throughout 

 the winter and spring on low herbage, especially that of the 

 prickly sida, Sida spinosa L., growing in rather moist grounds. 

 Recorded also from Crescent City and St. Petersburg, and 

 probably occurs in numbers throughout southern Florida and 

 more sparingly so in the northern portion. In one Dunedin ex- 

 ample the membrane is marked with numerous red dots. It is 

 a neotropical American species, known from Patagonia north- 

 ward and recorded in this country from Maryland, Georgia, 

 Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona. Like our other species 

 it varies much in color but is quite easily distinguished by its 

 relatively short broad form, dilated abdomen, long beak, banded 

 dorsum, and in having the second antennal joint longer than 

 either third or fourth. 



