324 FAMILY IX. — ARADID^E. 



been taken in the winter from single colonies near Dunedin. 

 Say mentions it as "common in Florida," and it is recorded defi- 

 nitely from Crescent City and Enterprise by Barber. Ranges 

 from Maryland west to Missouri, and south and southwest to 

 Florida and Texas. Uhler (1878, 420) also records it from Cuba 

 and Bergroth from Mexico. 



257 (— ). Mezira novella Blatchley, 1924, 88. 



Elongate-oblong. Dark reddish-brown, under surface and dorsum of 

 connexivum paler; membrane fuscous with a vague pale spot at base. 

 Head as long as wide across the eyes; tylus almost 

 reaching apex of first antennal; antenniferous spines 

 small, triangular, acute; vertex coarsely, unevenly 

 granulated, the impressions very small; postocular tu- 

 bercles distinct, obtuse; antenna? stout, distinctly 

 shorter than head and pronotum united, joints 1, 2 and 

 4 subequal in length, 3 one-half longer. Pronotum sub- 

 trapezoidal, sides distinctly not deeply sinuate near 

 middle, margins finely reflexed, median transverse im- 

 pression evident, ill-defined ; disk with front portion 

 bearing four oval or lozenge shaped low but distinct 

 tubercles, hind portion finely and densely granulated, 

 iiead showing 'short Scutellum triangular, much narrower than in granulata, 

 beak. (Original). ^ e apex more acute; disk as described in key. Abdo- 

 men narrow, the sides parallel. Ventral segments with the usual ridge 

 lying just within the spiracles very faint. Genital segment of male sub- 

 triangular, obtuse behind, carinate and subimpressed each side above, 

 lobes narrow, very small. Length, 4.5 mm. — 4.8 mm. (Fig. 67). 



Cape Sable, Fla., Feb. 25 — 28 ; a dozen or more specimens 

 beneath bark of decaying limbs in dense hammocks. Smaller 

 and paler than granulata, with sculpture of scutellum very dif- 

 ferent. Pronotum with side margins narrower, less reflexed, 

 their apical lobe much less pronounced ; front portion of disk 

 with tubercles more distinct, hind one much more finely and 

 densely granulated. 



VI. Neuroctenus Mayr, 1866, 365. 



Oval or elongate-oval species of medium size differing from 

 Mezira in having the antennal segments more subequal in 

 length, the third but slightly longer than the others; pronotum 

 with side margins entire or nearly so, disk without median 

 transverse impression or carinae; scutellum broadly triangular, 

 the basal margin longest ; abdomen very flat, the ventrals each 

 with a carina between the spiracles and side margins. Four 

 North American species are known, all occurring in our 

 territory. 



