366 FAMILY XI. — LYGJEWJE. 



Ft. Myers, R. P. Park, Moore Haven, Istokpoga and Dunedin, 

 Fla., Nov. 19 — April 4. Frequent about Dunedin in moist lo- 

 calities; hibernating beneath cover and in spring taken by 

 sweeping dead sugar cane, grasses and other vegetation. As 

 yet taken only in Florida, where it is known from Ormond south 

 to R. P. Park and Estero. The outer three veins of the mem- 

 brane unite at base and radiate from a small dark spot near 

 apex of corium, while the fourth one is sharply angularly bent 

 as described in key. 



306 ( — ). ISCHNODEMUS ROBUSTUS sp. llOV. 



Elongate, large and robust for the genus. Head, apical two-thirds 

 of pronotum, scutellum, except tip, and all the sterna black, opaque, 

 thickly clothed with a very fine silvery-gray pubescence; abdomen both 

 above and beneath pale reddish-brown, similarly pubescent; elytra pale 

 straw-yellow, the bounding veins of clavus and the outer one of corium 

 yellow, discal vein of corium and those of membrane fuscous ; antennae 

 piceous-brown, the incisures pale; legs and basal fourth of pronotum pale 

 reddish-brown. Antennae very stout, joints 2 and 4 subequal in length, 

 the latter fusiform, 3 one-third shorter than 2. Beak reaching base of 

 pro'sternum, its second joint but slightly surpassing base of head. Pro- 

 notum nearly as wide at base as long, sides subparallel from base to 

 beyond middle, thence converging toward apex, distinctly sinuate at 

 basal third ; disk finely and sparsely punctate, the punctures in front 

 of pale basal portion in transverse rows, the latter smooth. Scutellum 

 flat, not carinate but with a smooth median line, elsewhere distinctly 

 punctate. Elytra reaching sixth dorsal ; outer three veins of membrane 

 abbreviated and not united at base; fourth vein broadly curved, not angu- 

 larly bent at basal third. Length, 6 — 8 mm. 



R. P. Park, Fla., March 18 — April 4 ; seven specimens swept 

 from herbage along the margins of the everglades. Allied 

 to rufipes but larger and stouter, with antennae much more ro- 

 bust, pronotum more constricted, abdomen pale and veins of 

 membrane very different. One of the seven is brachypterous, 

 the elytra but slightly overlapping the base of second dorsal. 



307 ( — ). ISCHNODEMUS ATRAMEDIUS sp. nOV. 



Elongate, slender. Black, thickly clothed with a minute yellowish- 

 gray pubescence, that on head and pronotum in part erect; knobs above 

 hind angles and the very narrow hind margin of pronotum, also a small 

 spot on each side of scutellum, brownish-yellow; corium behind middle 

 of commissure and basal third of membrane dull white, the veins yellow- 

 ish; membrane with a large round black spot on apical two-thirds; con- 

 nexivals pale brown, their margins whitish; legs and beak pale brownish- 

 yellow; antennae piceous, the incisures and tip of fourth joint paler. An- 

 tennae slender, the basal joint stout, surpassing by half its length the apex 

 of head, second and fourth subequal in length, the latter stouter, fusiform; 



