350 FAMILY XI. — LYG^ID^E. 



range of scolopax (including the records of longiceps) extends 

 from Quebec and New England west to Wisconsin and Kansas 

 and south and southwest to Florida, Texas and California. The 

 only Florida record is that of Barber from Biscayne Bay. Uhler 

 (1876, 305) states that he found it common in August on dry 

 grasses and sedges near Portland, Me., and in stubble fields 

 in Maryland. The pronotum is sometimes in great part fus- 

 cous, while the pale median carina of scutellum is wider and 

 much more prominent than in the next. The beak extends only 

 slightly back of hind coxae, not to middle of venter, as stated 

 by Say. 

 285 ( — ). Ortholomus jamaicensis (Dallas), 1852, 555. 



Narrowly elongate-oblong. Above dull yellow with brown or fus- 

 cous markings; head with a curved blackish spot surrounding each ocel- 

 lus, the two separated by a narrow yellowish line; pronotum with numer- 

 ous brownish punctures, the narrow transverse impression and knobs 

 of hind angles blackish; scutellum blackish at base; corium hyaline with 

 small oblong fuscous marks on veins and costal margin, the apex reddish; 

 membrane whitish with brown blotches; antennae pale brown, the fourth 

 joint darker; under surface and femora dull yellow mottled with brown; 

 middle of meso- and metasterna black, shining, impunctate; tibiae and 

 tarsi dull yellow. Structural characters as above. Length, 4 — 5 mm. 



Key West, Fla., March 1. Several specimens taken by sweep- 

 ing herbage between the tide-water lagoons. A West Indian 

 species not before recorded from the United States. Barber 

 states (Ms.) that he regards the providus of Uhler (1894a, 182) 

 as a synonym. Although Van Duzee (1907, 16) had expressed 

 the same opinion, he later (1917, 157) makes both providus and 

 jamaicensis synonyms of longiceps Stal. 



IV. Nysius Dallas, 1852, 551. 



Small oblong finely pubescent species, having the head 

 slightly shorter than wide across the eyes ; antennae as in Ortho- 

 lomus, the fourth joint less robust; beak reaching hind coxae; 

 pronotum trapezoidal, punctate, moderately declivent, front 

 lobe less than one-half the length of hind one, the latter less 

 convex than in Ortholomus; scutellum as there, the transverse 

 ridge less prominent ; elytra covering the abdomen and passing 

 its tip ; connexivum not exposed ; costal margin of corium 

 straight on basal fourth, then usually visibly expanded and 

 slightly curved to apex ; margins of osteolar duct not expanded 

 at tip. Female ventrals as in Ortholomus. This genus is very 

 close to Ortholomus, the A', calif 'or ulcus Stal serving as a connect- 



