282 FAMILY VIII. — corizid;e. 



range of the insect. The general pale hue, unspotted connexi- 

 vum and abdomen, subequal joints of antennae, prominent ocel- 

 lar tubercles, and numerous small fuscous dots on elytral 

 nerves are the principal distinguishing characters. The ven- 

 trals are sometimes sprinkled with numerous red dots, but 

 never with fuscous spots and blotches. Two females at hand 

 are 7.5 mm. in length. 



209 (351). CORizus punctatus Signoret, 1859, 81. 



Oblong-oval. Dark grayish-white to reddish-brown, head usually 

 with a median blackish line; nodules of humeral angles of pronotum, 

 some scattered oblong spots on base and near apex of scutellum and on 

 veins of elytra, fuscous-brown ; membrane clear hyaline, but slightly 

 surpassing the pointed tip of abdomen; connexivum pale with a small 

 black spot on each segment (fig. 58, c) ; under surface and legs green- 

 ish-yellow, the pleura and femora thickly flecked with purplish-brown 

 points and dots; middle of mesosternum black. Antennae with joints 1 

 to 3 greenish-yellow with vague fuscous lines, 1 slightly passing tip of 

 tylus, 4 fuscous-brown. Base of pronotum one-third wider than apex, 

 hind angles with an obtuse tubercle. Scutellum coarsely punctate, its 

 margins raised and calloused near base and apex, the apical fourth 

 concave. Female with sixth dorsal and ventral both long and pointed, 

 male with apex of last dorsal rounded. Length, 4.5 — 5.5 mm. 



Santa Rita Mountains, Ariz., Aug. 26 (U.S.Nat.Mus.). A 

 neotropical species recorded from Sanford, Fla., by Van Duzee. 

 Its general range is southwestern, extending from Texas and 

 Arizona south to Mexico and Guatemala. 



210 (349). Corizus bohemanii Signoret, 1859, 86. 



Oblong-oval, thinly pubescent. Above dark reddish-brown to fus- 

 cous-black; head with a median blackish line; antennae in great part 

 fuscous, joints 3 and 4 pale at base and tip; narrow median line of pro- 

 notum and scutellum and extreme tip of the latter, pale yellow; nervures 

 of elytra pale with black dots ; connexivals alternated with black and 

 yellow, sometimes with only a small dark spot near apical angle; mem- 

 brane pale hyaline, reaching or but slightly passing tip of abdomen; 

 dorsum dark brown or black with a pale X-shaped spot at middle (fig. 

 58, d) , the last segment usually black with a pale spot each side at base 

 and another at tip; under surface usually pale yellow or reddish-brown, 

 the abdomen sometimes with margins fuscous and middle sprinkled with 

 reddish or fuscous dots; legs dull yellow marked with fuscous dots. 

 First joint of antennae not reaching apex of head, 2 and 4 subequal, 3 

 slightly shorter. Pronotum but little declivent, disk finely and densely 

 punctate, the median line distinct. Scutellum more coarsely punctate, 

 the edges raised except at middle, tip acute, median line obsolete at base 

 and apex. Abdomen feebly dilated at middle; connexivum narrowly ex- 

 posed, male, more broadly so, female. Sixth dorsal of female broader 



