358 FAMILY XI. — LYGJEWJE. 



paler; posterior apical angles of metapleura white; legs reddish-brown. 

 Head and pronotum rather finely and thickly punctate; clavus with three 

 rows of punctures; scutellum with transverse ridge and median carina 

 very faint. Other characters as in generic description. Length, 4 — 5 

 mm. (Fig. 75). 



Common throughout Indiana. Hibernates beneath cover 

 along the edges of waste places and cultivated fields. Taken in 

 spring and summer by sweeping. Near Indianapolis, on April 

 23, it was once swept by scores from the stems of dead asters 

 of the previous year; while on Aug. 12 it was noted by 

 hundreds in all stages, the adults mating, on a hedge row of 

 Spirca van-houttei Zabel. In Florida I have taken it in small 

 numbers at Bassenger, Cape Sable and Dunedin by sweeping 

 herbage in low moist grounds and also beneath loose bark of 

 pine. These southern specimens differ from those from 

 Indiana only in averaging slightly smaller and in the slightly 

 more yellowish hue of the hyaline corium. Specimens named 

 reseda for me by Uhler, and others named /. geminatus (Say) by 

 both Van Duzee and Barber, have been carefully compared with 

 specimens of reseda from England, sent me by Mr. China, and I 

 can find no constant appreciable difference. The markings, punc- 

 tuation and even the color of the antennal joints are the same in 

 all. I therefore follow Stal" (1874, 124) and Uhler (1861, 23) in 

 making Say's name a synonym. The distribution of /. reseda 

 is in general northern. It is found in northern Europe and Si- 

 beria and in this country ranges from Quebec and New Eng- 

 land west and north across the Continent, and south and south- 

 west to Florida, Texas and California. In Maryland Uhler 

 (1876, 305) found it "sparingly on bushes and shrubbery near 

 the edges of woods." In Florida it has been previously recog- 

 nized only from Jacksonville. 



295 (480). Ischnorrhynchus championi Distant, 1882, 193. 



Oval. Color much as in resedse; antennas with all the joints reddish- 

 brown, darker only at tips; head and pronotum without black markings; 

 scutellum with small spot at middle and apex blackish; entire elytra, ex- 

 cept dark dots on corium, pale hyaline; legs darker, the femora fuscous, 

 their apices paler; metapleura and osteolar duct wholly pale. Length, 

 3—3.2 mm. 



Ft. Myers and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 17 — March 27. Taken in 

 some numbers at Dunedin by sweeping herbage along a road- 

 side ditch, and at Ft. Myers by sifting dried muck from the 

 bed of an extinct pond. This is the first record from Florida, it 



