SUBFAMILY II. — CYMINjE. 359 



being a neotropical species hitherto known in the United States 

 only from Texas and California. 



II. Cymoninus Breddin, 1907, 38. 



Elongate, slender species having the head strongly deflexed 

 between the antennae, not inserted in thorax to eyes ; clavus 

 widened behind ; corium hyaline, narrow, with a single median 

 row of punctures, its costal margin concave toward base. Other 

 characters as in key and under subfamily heading. One species 

 is known. 



296 (481). Cymoninus notabilis (Distant), 1882, 191. 



Elongate, slender. Head, pronotum and scutellum dark reddish- 

 brown, pubescent with scattered erect hairs; corium yellowish-hyaline, 

 the extreme apex fuscous; clavus and commissure yellowish; membrane 

 clear hyaline; sterna reddish-brown; legs dull yellow; abdomen pale 

 greenish-yellow; tip of beak and last joint of tarsi fuscous; antennae 

 brownish-yellow, the apical joint slightly darker. Second joint of an- 

 tennae one-half longer than third, the latter slightly shorter than fourth. 

 Beak reaching middle coxae. Bucculaa short, evanescent behind, not reach- 

 ing base of head. Pronotum densely punctate, constricted near apex, the 

 basal lobe strongly convex. Length, 3 — 3.3 mm. 



Common throughout southern Florida. About Dunedin it 

 occurs in numbers from November to mid-April, both on islands 

 and main land, hibernating beneath rubbish along the margins 

 of ponds and in spring taken by sweeping herbage along road- 

 side ditches and in low moist cultivated grounds. A neotropi- 

 cal species known in this country only from Florida. The head 

 and pronotum are often marked with a median and two short 

 stripes of whitish bloom. 



III. Cymus Hahn, 1831, 76. 



Small oblong or elongate-oval species of a pale color having 

 the head porrect, as wide or wider than long, inserted in pro- 

 notum almost or fully to eyes ; cheeks shorter than tylus, their 

 tips often acute ; antenna? with basal joint stout, third longer 

 than second, fourth shorter, fusiform; beak reaching middle 

 coxae; pronotum longer than wide, constricted near apex, 

 coarsely, thickly and evenly punctate, basal portion convex; 

 clavus widened behind, commissure much longer than scu- 

 tellum ; membrane relatively small, hyaline. Other characters 

 as in key. Seven species are known from North America, six 

 of them from the eastern states. 



