348 FAMILY XI. — LYG^ID^. 



logs or were beaten from bunches of Spanish moss ; the June 

 individual at porch light. Say's types were from Florida and 

 Barber records it from five stations in the southern half of the 

 State. Ranges from New Jersey southwestward in the coast- 

 wise states to Texas, the western records given by Van Duzee 

 applying to /.. lateralis Dall. The description of L. rubriger 

 Stal (1862, 309) from "Carolina" agrees in most respects with 

 facetus and is doubtfully placed as a synonym by Barber. 



283 (460%). Lyg^eus tripunctatus (Dallas), 1852, 559. 



Oblong-oval. Dark brown or fuscous, thickly clothed with short, 

 subprostrate grayish hairs, the margins of pronotum and abdomen with 

 longer erect ones. Pronotum with front margin and a small spot on hind 

 angles and middle of base brownish-yellow; costal margin of corium 

 tinged with reddish-brown; membrane fuscous with a vague median spot, 

 and more distinct ones near tip of corium, whitish; antenna? and tibia? 

 reddish-brown, the femora darker; prosternum and tarsi in part dull 

 yellow, side margins of ventral segments sometimes red or pale. Pro- 

 notum punctate at middle and behind front mai - gin. Scutellum with 

 transverse ridge rather low. Length, 3.5 — 4.5 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Jan. 6. Taken from beneath a chunk on the 

 site of an extinct wet-weather pond. Yaphank, Long Island, 

 July 4 (Davis). Described from St. John's Bluff, Fla., and re- 

 corded (as L. al 'bid us Dist.) by Barber from Crescent City and 

 Newberry. Ranges from New England and New York to 

 Florida, Texas, and New Mexico, and usually recorded as L. al- 

 bitlus Dist., the latter itself being, according to Barber (1921, 

 68), a synonym of L, pusio Stal. 



III. Ortholomus Stal, 1872b, 43. 



Small, oblong or oblong-oval pubescent species having the 

 head slightly longer than broad across the prominent eyes; 

 antennae slender, as long as head and pronotum united, basal 

 joint reaching tip of tylus, third and fourth joints subequal, 

 the latter stouter, fusiform, second slightly longer than either ; 

 pronotum coarsely punctate, hind lobe elevated, convex, longer 

 and wider than front one ; scutellum an equilateral triangle, 

 apex obtuse, disk punctate, the carina distinct ; elytra impunc- 

 tate, reaching or slightly surpassing tip of abdomen ; connexi- 

 vum narrowly exposed. Female with ventrals 4 — 6 as described 

 under subfamily heading. Four species are known from the 

 United States, two of which occur in our territory. 



