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the costal and inner margins of corium dull red or reddish-yellow; hind 

 margin of corium narrowly black, bordered within by red; clavus with 

 a broad pale yellow inner margin, this extending to apex of commissure; 

 membrane pale hyaline; legs, antennae and under surface black, sterna 

 very narrowly margined with yellow. Hind lobe of pronotum with side 

 margins thickened, the median carina of disk fine but distinct, separating 

 the usual black basal bar into two oblong spots. Other characters as in 

 turcicus. Length, 10 — 10.5 mm. 



Cape Sable and Miami, Fla., Feb. 23— March 11 (W.S.B.). 

 One specimen taken at each place by sweeping along the 

 borders of hammocks. A Mexican species first recorded from 

 this country by Barber from specimens taken at Biscayne Bay 

 and Miami, Fla., by Mrs. Slosson and W. T. Davis. Known in 

 this country only from that State. As mentioned by Stal 

 (1874,108) the pale spot on vertex is very small, often sub- 

 obsolete ; the black spots near base of pronotum are slightly in 

 front of the base, the latter being dull reddish-yellow, and he 

 states that they are at times more or less confluent. 



278 (446). Lyceus lineolus Dallas, 1852, 549. 



Elongate-oblong. Fuscous or dull black, finely pubescent; a minute 

 spot on vertex, pronotum, except two T-shaped stripes, apical carina of 

 scutellum and margins of corium and commissure, dull yellow or tinged 

 with reddish; membrane fuscous, narrowly edged with white; prosternum 

 reddish-yellow with a quadrate central black spot; buccula? and coxa? dull 

 yellow. Beak reaching behind coxa?. Pronotum wider at base than long, 

 front lobe with an irregular very narrow impressed line each side and 

 a row of small punctures near front margin; hind one with carina 

 scarcely evident. Other characters as in key and generic description. 

 Length, 4.3 — 6 mm. 



Sanford, Moore Haven, R. P. Park, Ft. Myers, Sarasota and 

 Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 8 — April 10. Common about Dunedin, both 

 on mainland and islands, hibernating in bunches of Spanish 

 moss, in crevices of dead leaves of cabbage palmetto and be- 

 neath rubbish ; in spring occurring on foliage of various shrubs 

 and herbs, especially on flowers of thistle and on grasses in 

 open pine woods. Recorded from numerous stations in Florida. 

 Ranges from Virginia south and southwest to Texas and New 

 Mexico. The upper surface is thickly clothed with a very short 

 pubescence which causes it to appear subopaque. The spot on 

 head is often subobsolete and the T-shaped stripes of pronotum 

 are sometimes so widened as to almost cover the front lobe. 



279 (447). LyGjEUS tripligatus Barber, 1914, 510. 



Elongate-oblong. Fuscous or dull brown, minutely pubescent; a very 

 small spot on vertex, three large ones on basal lobe of pronotum and tip 



