334 FAMILY X. — NEIDIDjE. 



between the front coxae, much widened behind them, contracted 

 again between middle coxae and widened on metasternum, its 

 edges sharply carinate ; osteolar process ending in a spine. A 

 half dozen species are known, two of them and one variety 

 from North America. One species occurs east of the Missis- 

 sippi. 



270 (421). Jalysus spinosus (Say), 1824, 28; I, 28. 



Dull reddish-brown or brownish-yellow; last antennal joint (except 

 base and apex), apex of corium, tips of tarsi and often sterna and stripes 

 on venter blackish-fuscous. First joint of antennae distinctly longer than 

 third, second only twice the length of fourth. Spine of scutellum in- 

 clined at an angle of about 45 degrees. Length, 7 — 9 mm. (Fig. 68). 



Frequent throughout Indiana, much more so in the southern 

 portion; Feb. 25— Sept. 18. Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 18— April 3. 

 In Indiana it hibernates beneath logs, leaves of mullein and 

 other cover, and may be taken by sweeping in early April. In 

 summer it occurs most frequently on the weeds and under- 

 brush of woodland and the tall grasses about the edges of ponds 

 and fields. In Florida, where it is much less common than in 

 the north, it also seeks cover during the winter months, but is 

 taken by sweeping in November and March. It has been here- 

 tofore recorded only from Crescent City, Clearwater and Lake- 

 land in that State. The known range of spinosus is in general 

 more southern than that of .V. muticus, extending from Quebec 

 and New England west to Michigan and Kansas and south and 

 southwest to Florida, Mississippi and Texas. In the central 

 and southern states it is relatively much more common than is 

 muticus in the northern ones. From Nebraska westward the 

 eastern form is replaced by the race or variety wickhami Van 

 D. (1906,387). 



III. Aknisus McAtee, 1919a, 81. 



Here belong two small, very slender species having the head 

 (in our eastern one) armed with a short suberect obtuse spine 

 between the bases of antennae; beak slightly surpassing middle 

 coxae; pronotum subcylindrical, elevated behind, disk densely 

 punctate, the carina very low, front portion with a pair of small 

 callosities ; elytra almost wholly hyaline, nearly devoid of punc- 

 tures reaching almost to tip of abdomen ; osteolar process as in 

 key, its apex without a spine ; prosternum without a sulcus ; 

 meso- and metasterna with an ill-defined one, its sides obtusely 

 rounded. One species occurs in our territory, another in Cali- 

 fornia. 



