SUBFAMILY II. — MEZIRIN^. 329 



Dunedin, Fla., Jan. 8 — April 3. Taken from beneath boards 

 in low moist places and from beneath bark of dead limbs of 

 oak and red bay. Spring Hill, Ala., May 2 (Gerhard). Haw 

 Creek, Fla. (Cornell Univ. Coll.). Described from Guatemala 

 and Panama and hitherto recorded from the United States only 

 from Georgia. 



264 (414). Aneurus inconstans Uhler, 1871, 105. 



Oblong-oval. Dark reddish-brown; head, antennae, pronotum and 

 scutellum usually fuscous; corium sometimes with a whitish spot at 

 middle. Head as wide as long; tylus reaching apical fourth of first an- 

 tennal; antenniferous spines visible but very short, acute; antennas rather 

 stout, nearly as long as head and pronotum united, second joint slightly 

 longer and more slender than first, third but slightly shorter than fourth. 

 Pronotum with side margins widely and shallowly sinuate, their edges 

 not reflexed, minutely denticulate; disk finely and densely granulated. 

 Scutellum not wider at base than long, disk finely transversely wrinkled 

 and with a faint oblique, abbreviated carina each side. Male genital seg- 

 ment oval, convex, its apex broadly rounded, lobes slightly shorter, tri- 

 angular, their apex subtruncate, much wider than base; female dorsal 

 genital sublunate, concave behind, genital lobes scarcely visible from 

 above, the hind margin of second genital truncate. Length, 5.5 — 6.3 mm. 



Lake Co., Ind., May 5 (W.S.B.). Rockaway Beach, Tar- 

 bel, DeBruce and East Jewett, N. Y. ; Schooley's Junction, N. 

 J., May 21 — July 6 (Davis) . Ranges from Quebec and New 

 England west to Indiana. Van Duzee (1894, 182) took it in all 

 stages at Buffalo under dead birch bark, February and April. 



265 (415). Aneurus simplex Uhler, 1871, 106. 



Elongate-oval. Pale reddish-brown; elytra, including membrane, 

 dull white. Head as wide across eyes as long; vertex transversely stri- 

 gose; tylus stout, cylindrical, its front portion elevated above, but not 

 much surpassing the slender tips of cheeks; postocular tubercles promi- 

 nent. Antenna? scarcely as long as head and pronotum united, joint 1 

 oblong, its base very slender; 2 and 3 subequal in length, each more 

 slender and one-third longer than 1, the base of 2 tapering; 4 slightly 

 stouter, pilose, about as long as 2 and 3 united. Pronotum nearly twice 

 as wide as long, constricted and with a distinct transverse impression in 

 front of middle; front lobe with four or five flat oval callosities, side 

 margins minutely denticulate, hind one truncate, front angles obtusely 

 rounded. Scutellum finely and very irregularly strigose, without carina, 

 its apex broadly rounded. Dorsal genital of female trapezoidal, trun- 

 cate behind. Length, 5 — 5.3 mm. 



Dilly, Ore. (Barber). Hoquiam, Wyo., on Pieea sitchensis 

 (Bong.) ; Denver, Colo. (Cornell Univ. Coll.). A species of north- 

 ern range recorded only from Vermont, Massachusetts and 

 Washington. 



