346 FAMILY XI. — LYG^EID^E. 



of corium reddish-yellow; apical carina and tip of scutellum, apical half 

 of fourth antennal, buccula?, coxa?, base of femora and prosternum in 

 part, dull yellow. Beak reaching hind coxae; third joint of antenna? but 

 little shorter than second. Pronotum slightly broader than long, almost 

 impunctate, a transverse elevation at apical third with three ill-defined 

 impressions just behind it; median carina very short. Scutellum with the 

 transverse ridge and apical carina quite prominent. Other characters as 

 in generic description. Length, 6 — 7 mm. 



Cape Sable, R. P. Park, and Chokoloskee, Fla., Feb. 20— April 

 7 (IV. S. B.) . Taken by beating within or along the borders of 

 dense hammocks ; frequent at R. P. Park in April in clumps of 

 dead air plants. Recorded by Barber from Lake Worth and 

 Punta Gorda, Fla., and known only from the southern third of 

 that State. The median pale spot of pronotum is triangular, its 

 apex forward, and the costal edge of corium is slightly paler 

 than disk. 



280 (458). Lyceus mimulus Stal, 1874, 113. 



Elongate-oblong. Dull brown, thickly clothed with a very short 

 grayish-yellow pubescence; front of head between eyes and antenna?, 

 front lobe of pronotum, except front margin, red; front margin of pro- 

 notum, margins and middle of its hind lobe, all margins of corium and 

 carina of scutellum, pale yellow; prosternum yellow with reddish spot on 

 each side; under side of head, coxa?, base of femora, knees, hind margin 

 of ventrals and margin of abdomen, yellow. Beak reaching onto meta- 

 sternum. Third and fourth joints of antenna? subequal, second longer. 

 Pronotum as in tripligdta, the discal impressions less evident. Genital 

 lobe of male broader than long, convex. Length, 5.5 — 6.5 mm. 



Sanford, Ft. Myers, R. P. Park, Sanibel Island and Dunedin, 

 Fla., Nov. 19— April 7. (11' . S. B.). Aberdeen, N. Car., May 25 

 (Brimley). Frequent about Dunedin in early spring on plants 

 growing about the margins of ponds and lakes. At Ft. Myers 

 several examples were taken while sifting debris from the bed 

 of a dry wet-weather pond, while at R. P. Park all stages were 

 abundant in April on heads and stems of thistles along swales, 

 so that it is evidently partial to moist localities. Recorded 

 from numerous places in the State. Ranges from Virginia to 

 Florida and Texas in the coastwise states. As the osteolar duct 

 is pale and the head in great part reddish-yellow, I have trans- 

 ferred this species to the subgenus Ochrostomus, it having more 

 affinities in size and color with lineola and tripligata than with the 

 larger species with which it was placed by Stal and Barber. 



